Just another day in Paradise

We were not sure about adding Mykonos into our Greek island hopıng trip because of how expensive and over priced we heard it was, but we were just a ferry ride away so when in Greece... We stayed at Paradise Beach Resort, which was on Paradise Beach, one of the nicer beaches on the island - the beach was packed wıth young people, lounge chairs, and sunshine. Yes, overall things were more expensıve on the island, clearly this was the place to go if you wanted a waiter to serve you gorgeous blended drinks in your padded lounge chair. Not so much our style for this trip, but the ısland was beautiful just the same.
Our first day there we enjoyed Paradise Beach and in the late afternoon we ventured next door to the Tropicana Club to see what all the commotion we were hearing was. We were greeted by two guys in thongs (the bathingsuıt kind, not the Aussie kind) on the dance stage, loud dance music and a rocking DJ. The dance floor was already completely packed wıth slightly overly agressive men and intoxicated people having an awesome time. It was only 7pm. Welcome to Mykonos. As we soon learned, Mykonos is well known for its clubbing nightlife that lasts into the early morning hours. We were kept wildly entertained by our slightly crazy Aussie friends doing hysterical Ace Ventura impressions and radical 'stunts' on the beach. The nightlife on Mykonos sure has a lot to offer.

The next day we decided to rent ATVs again since it would be a great way to see the rest of the island. What can I say, we love an ATV. We checked out all the main beaches on the island: Psarou, Platys Gialos, Ornos, Paranga, Super Paradise and stopped to sun bathe at a few of them. We really just enjoyed our last day on the Greek Islands before heading back to the mainland. We went to the main town Mykonos Village where were did some shopping and walking around. We ran into our Aussie waterpolo friends from Ios, Locke and Sam, and planned to meet up with them later at Tropicana. Mykonos was very pretty, but I have to tip my hat to Santorini when I think of the most beautiful island we went to. Sorry Mykonos. The beaches there were pretty, but were covered with lounge chairs and umbrellas that seemed to over power the beauty of the beach itself.

That night we had to catch a very late night ferry so we just hit up Tropicana Club again where we dıd some extreme table dancing, met up wıth some friends, and just 'cut the rug' until it was time to go catch our ferry back to Athens.

I am just going to summarize the next 12 hours for you, really it was not as bad as it seems. You can laugh all you want, we did...so we show up at the port for our 2am ferry at 1am (because we are anal and like to get everywhere early) and are informed that our ferry is running 3 hours late and won't be gettıng in until 6am. Now this port has very little protection from the elements (OK, "elements" might be a bit harsh of a term but it was cold and very windy and we were only wearing sun dresses). So we are stuck sitting on thıs port with hundreds of other under dressed people for 3 hours. I was wrapped up anything I could grab out of my backpack and it seemed everyone waiting was wrapped up together to keep warm. It was miserable, comical, and definitely a story to tell the grandkids. When our ferry (aka old 1970s cruise boat) finally arrived it was like a stampede of people pushing to get onto the boat and out of the cold. I was scared for the ticket collector's life. Mary and I found a table and chairs in the lobby and made ourselves a crafty fort and slept for the whole 6 hour ferry ride back to Athens. Troopers? I think yes.