We arrived in Naxos maybe yesterday or the day before. They all blur together now! I think my brain is partially melting due to the extreme heat. Regardless, we are here. It is very beautiful as well. White sandy beaches, mountains, cliffs, it has all of it. Not to mention about 4 kids per person, they meant it when they said "family friendly". I am not sure if the weird looks are because we are the only ginourmous white girls on this island, or that we have no kids and are not pregnant. No one sleeps, not even the kids. In fact, we just ate dinner, it is 10:30pm, and that is the normal dinner time. There are kids running all over in the streets and will be till well past midnight when those of us that are old go to bed! There were plenty of parents in the taverns with strollers well past 1am last night.
We have also ATV'd this island. We got a 300 horsepower ATV, much better than the 30 horsepower one we must have had in Santorini in which Kez and I could not make it up the hill. Kez got this sucker going 60 kmh. It was great. We ended up swimming in little remote beaches along our tour and then stopped for lunch at a small village where Kez asked some fellas if we could play volleyball with them.
It was all fun and games for a bit, and then they started to smoke the ball at us, talking in Greek, laughing, and drilling it at us. I don't claim to be good at volleyball by any means, but I am tall, big (as many people have let me know here), kinda strong, and returned the favor at least once........ then we left.
Today we walked about 1 hour and 30 minutes to another beach. I kept telling Kez was just over the hill......she was pissed and sweating as cabs and buses and ATVs flew by us. She even stuck her thumb out to hitch for awhile. We did finally make it........to a beach looking exactly like the one we walked away from.....oops.
Kez also approached a group playing sand volleyball here. They asked if we were good....."your big...you good?" Smiling we both laughed and stepped on opposite teams. Kez was on a team with the grumpiest old Greek man ever, he was known as the group "president" whatever that means. He yelled at everyone, when he missed, he yelled, when he had a good shot, he yelled, while smoking and talking on his cell phone. They literally yelled the entire time at each other. In Greek, but still yelling. One guy even crossed under the net, grabbed the ball while screaming, and took it to the other side. If Kez was better at volleyball we would still be playing....... =) I just stood up at the net, being the tallest woman most had seen and was told to, "Stay up there, big, block, K?" Yes.....I got it. Thanks.
On to Athens tomorrow, we will visit our first museum of the trip and head out to Iowa the following day.
RP
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