Do you want a high five for that?
We left bright and early for Naxos today. 7:25 to be exact. It was a five hour ferry ride to the island from Athens. I mostly slept (go figure) and read. Naxos is beautiful and our hotel is by far my favorite that we have stayed in so far. If you have seen Mama Mia or The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Naxos looks very similar to that. The buildings are mostly white and our hotel has only 20 rooms in the whole place. 20 rooms! All of our rooms are accessed through an outdoor courtyard/garden and we have double doors that open out to it. The hotel is right on the sea, and the view is spectacular. I don't think this is real life. When we first got to the hotel, the owner (it's all family-owned and operated by the way) made us sit in the dining area and served us homemade wine, orange juice, a mushroom casserole bar thing, and chocolate bread before they sent us off to our rooms. I feel more like we are staying in somebody's beautiful home than a hotel. We walked down to the tavernas on the water and had lunch. The owner was a crazy old man who was showing us magic tricks and mind games, and he was cracking us up the entire time. Do you know how to flip a hard-boiled egg that is sitting in a glass without touching the glass or egg or anything? I do now. He bragged that that is how he gets free drinks at bars in America. Must make a note to try that sometime bahahaha. Then we headed back to the hotel where we sat out on the cliffs overlooking the water and just relaxed. I have been here less than six hours and have already fallen in love. We got ready for dinner and headed out for an Asian restaurant called EastWest. It was so good to get a break from Greek cuisine for a night. The place is ran by an Australian couple, and the food was amazing. I had the equivalent of cashew chicken, and I actually really liked it (even though it wasn't Springfield style). There is nothing more American than Chinese food, owned by Aussies, in Greece. There is apparently a Mexican restaurant on Naxos too that is owned by Canadians. Weird. On another random tangent, apparently the crime rate is like 0% here. Barnes said that the last time he was here he actually considered going home, getting his stuff, and moving here. If that's the case for me, I might be screwed if I go down the attorney path. No crime would mean very little use for me on this island. Maybe I should just move here and become a bartender. Bahahaha just kidding mom! You can stop having your small heart attack now. But seriously, it's amazing.
The courtyard in our hotel
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