Saronic Islands

Woke up super early today and missed breakfast again. Typical us. We headed straight to the ferry with the rest of the kids on our trip for the day and ended up seeing Yulia. We got together with her and then proceeded to sleep for two hours. After a little nap (we had been super tired), we walked downstairs on the ferry and watched some traditional Greek dances. They were interesting, but pretty cool at the same time. The Zorba dance was my favorite. There were three main dancers, and they were pretty good. After the dancing, we made it to Hydra, the first of three islands we would be visiting today. Hydra was nice. It’s an island where the movie stars go and other rich people. The prices were nuts, but we did some window-shopping. For instance, I really want some Berkinstock sandals (the ones from Germany that are really nice) and they were 80 Euros! That’s nuts! You can get a gyro (pronounced jeero, officially) for 2 euro, but not shoes, man. Haha. We also went to a little rocky beach and did some swimming. The water was warm! Way warmer than the water in Croatia. It was super nice. Just as salty, but eh, at least it was coming off us like at Lokram. Swimming in the Ionian Sea…yup. Pretty exciting. The water is just as blue and just as clean.
After swimming, we went back to the ferry to sleep some more. Haha. Next we got to the island of Poros. We were only here for a couple of minutes really. We walked around, looked at some of the shops. It was nice enough. Pretty hot though. We got some water afterwards to rehydrate and we’d only been at the island for thirty minutes. One crazy thing: There was a huge fire on one of the mountains in Poros as we were leaving! Trees were going up and houses, and there was this huge mansion that was pretty freakin close to the fire. We watched it going up as we sailed away. After that strange experience, we made it to the last island, Aegina.
Aegina was nice as well. It was a little cooler with a lot more shade. We did some shopping, ate a crepe. We did a Greek dance when we got back on. There was a lve band on the ship too. They were pretty darn good. I loved the music. It was very strange, and definitely different, but nice in its own way.
Exciting!: In between one of the islands we saw dolphins jumping! James saw them when we were in the middle of lunch on the ferry. SOOO exciting! So many of the people on the boat saw them on the way across the Atlantic, and I always missed them! So I was so happy to see them. It made my day!
We ended up getting back from the islands two and a half hours later than we expected. So when we got home we scrounged for some food and then headed out to take showers. We wrote some blogs. Ate some pistachios, and watched Memoirs of a Geisha and some of the Labyrinth. Sweet.