A peek into our last week or so...

The island tour of Santorini was fabulous! We hiked to the top of the last active volcano in the Greek Islands. What a hot day! The sun was beating down on the black rocks and we could see the heat waves coming off the volcano surface. As we walked around the crater, we could see steam being released and we learned that an egg could be fried in less that 20 minutes if you dug a hole 6-8 inches down and placed a frying pan in it. It was a really neat experience!

Next stop was a natural hot spring, heated by the volcano. The water actually bubbled up into a bay in the ocean, so we had to jump off our sail boat and swim about 50m into the hot spring. The water was a muddy brown from the minerals and iron, but it was about 27 degrees.

After the hot springs, we boarded our sailboat once again and headed for the village of Oia. It is a classic Greek town with white cubist homes with blue trim/shutters. Here we watched the hot sun sink below the horizon, painting a beautiful sunset.

We are now on the island of Naxos and have been relaxing on the beach. This beach is the nicest we have seen yet; white sand and clear, blue water. We have spent the last week with 3 girls from Norway. They are an absolute hoot and we are sad to par, t ways tomorrow. Our next stop is the island of Amorgoes, so we will write more from there...

And a quick congrats to Karla and Andy, who had their baby, Eli, on June 9th! We can not wait to meet him!

Love Kristin and Jason