The Donkey Adventure

Hello from beautiful Santorini! (filmplace of The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants for those of you who are pumped about that). It's been lovely being here on this volcano island but I'm so ready to go home. I thought I should share our little adventure from yesterday however, as a little enjoyment for you as this will probably be my last post until I am home!

We are staying at a room on Perissa beach so the actually city (fira) is a while away. We took a bus there and after shopping and getting discouraged, we decided, what the heck, we have to ride the donkeys down the cliffs. So we hop on these donkeys. However, we are both in dresses (not thinking about this when we got dressed in the morning) and Stef is carrying a bottle of wine she got for her parents. I'm doing just fine, having a sweet ride down the stairs of this cliff, when i hear a couple of explatives coming from Stef behind me. Now she is not likely to swear so i'm wondering what the heck is going on. Turns out her saddle is falling off and she's trying to stay up while holding this bottle of wine and not having her dress come up around her waist. It was a funny sight let me tell you. We tried to get the attention of the donkey guy who didn't speak any english except madam! you ride! and ok!. he finally got the idea and let her get on a different donkey but then he's like you want to go up? and we said yes, we wanted to go back up. so he slaps the butt of stef's donkey and she goes up but i'm still tied to the line of other donkeys and definitely still going down. we're yelling hey hey! i want to go up too!!! and finally he gets the idea. The ride up was a lot more pleasant but our donkeys were definitely competative and did not want to let the other get ahead. we returned back safe and sound but later I found this MASSIVE bruise on my thigh that I didn't even notice i had gotten during the ride. It's seriously so huge, it looks like someone beat me. My story if anyone asks is that a greek guy tried to attack me but i fought him off using my sweet muscles i have gained from carrying around my backpack and i got away with only a thigh bruise. he looks much worse.

So that is the advenuture from Santorini! We are heading back to Athens this afternoon and then on to the airport where we'll hang out until our flight on wednesday evening. Pray that everything goes smoothly and safely as we are travelling late at night to the airport and not sure exactly how it all works.
I love you all and I'll see a lot of you in only 3 days!! see you soon,
Deanne