Day 3: The Cruise (June 20)

So we boarded our cruise ship without any problems. Most everyone was pleased with the size of the cabins on the cruise ship. I've never taken a cruise before, so had no way to measure if they were big or not... but everyone seemed happy with that part of the cruise. The food on the cruise ship left a bit to be desired, but we usually just grabbed breakfast there, and headed out to the islands to eat the REAL Greek food! SO GOOD! We have been eating some great stuff.

The kids (and Tim Doty...oh yea and Marshall as well) enjoyed playing out by the pool, and playing the different games that the cruise directors set up for the guests (our group pretty much dominated that stuff...Tim especially (he had to kiss more women in 1 minute than the guy running the show...it was no competition...they were basically lining up to kiss "Apollo"...our 60 something year old tour guide in Athens, was talking about Apollo and reached out and started stroking Tim's hair as she talked about the perfection of Apollo...like he needed THAT to make that ego grow! ha ha). So they had a blast out by the pool each day they had time for it.

Everyone cleaned up and got ready for our first island visit. The first island was Mykonos. We arrived just in time to sit down and have a nice dinner, take a few photographs and enjoy a gorgeous sunset. By the time we returned to the ship, it was night...and walking through the little town there at night was magical to say the least.

Everyone returned to the ship and headed to the lounge that had Kereoke... needless to say...the room went crazy when I pulled out "Dude Looks Like A Lady" by Aerosmith...the boat was rockin'! I think there will be video/photos of that to show up at some point...sheeeesh. Ha ha. But our whole group was there, and we had a blast doing the Kereoke. Tim, Hittle and I believe Steve and Mike made it to the casino on the ship. Tim and Andrea did pretty well. I was already in bed by this time. We had many more islands to visit over the following three days...not to mention...we were headed to the country (mainland) of Turkey the next morning!