Black, Red, Blue, and White

Today the weather held up for us! YEAH! We hopped on the scooter and drove to Perissa, a black sand beach. It really was black. Aaron was so proud of himself for coming up with this picture. He kept trying to convince me that he had a hole in his hand. 

 After the black sand beach, we drove to Red Beach, named for its red cliffs. Yep, pretty red. Funny thing was that we almost missed seeing it. You had to hike around the cliffs to get here and we were like "this is a boring gray beach." Good thing we had our tour book.

 Then we did a LONG ride. We went from Red Beach all the way to Oia again. Since it was sunny, I knew I could get my dome shots! We had a nice lunch overlooking the caldera and I was even adventurous and ordered my first ever stuffed grape leaves. Honestly, it tasted like rice-a-roni. We did a big no-no though. We ordered too much food and when the waitress came to take the plates away, she scolded us a little for not cleaning our plates. Greece is not weight watcher friendly.

The sun truly makes Greece really beautiful. When it's gray, the colors don't really shine. I was so happy that we got to come back to Oia. I don't think I would stay there since it's so far away from everything else though.

After Oia, we went back to Fira and searched for a Donkey Station. Since we were at the top, we decided to give the donkeys  a break and go down. The man in charge took us down for 5 euros a piece (cheap) and had to then send his entire herd of donkeys down with us. We were tethered together so we wouldn't get lost. It was a LONG ways down, being 587 stone steps. Poor donkeys! They did a great job though.

We then walked back up by ourselves. As we walked we made donkey jokes the whole way. Aaron named his donkey "Donkey" while I named mine "Dr. Donkey." At least my donkey had a PhD!

We then left Santorini by plane and landed in Athens around 9 PM. Hungry, we went to McDonalds like bad American tourists, but fear not....Aaron was adventurous and ordered things not found in the USA; a shrimp wrap (he said it was definitely strange) and a shrimp burger which was an actual patty made with shrimp. After chowing down, we got our stick shift rental car, and I drove us 2 hours to our hotel in Kamena Vourla. Cute little town that was on the way to our next place.