Paros Mike is the best Mike we know

Jordan: So we arrived in Paros, after a safe and uneventful trip on the ferry. It was kind of a gloomy morning but all that went out the window the second we met Mike. Let me tell you about Mike, of 'Rooms Mike'. This is where we were staying and at times were treated quite royally. Yes, quite royally. Like 'King' and 'Queen', but like the King and Queen of different lands because we are in no way together by any means except blood. Mike is only the last person to make this mistake. We forgave him because he is awesome.

So we mosey on off the ferry, and Mike, who is waiting to pick us up at the port, is eagerly holding his "Rooms Mike" sign. Kennedy did all the emailing between us so that's the name he knew. I approached him and he looked at me and said, "Kennedy?" Not quite Mike, but close. Then he wondered why we chose two separate beds and hinted it would be nothing for him to change the accommodation to a single queen. No thanks Mike. But thanks for offering.

Mike is cool. What wasn't cool, weather-wise, was Paros. It was cool, but also incredibly hot that first day we were there. OK, let me tell you how hot it was, let me paint you a picture. So, in Athens I wore sandals the day we went to the Acropolis. I sweat bucket loads. I sweat so much that the dust from the ground mixed with the sweat on my bare feet and turned to mud, which stuck to my toes. This wasn't even regular mud, this was my own special concoction of mud. It wasn't liquid it was like a jelly that I could pull off. This is just one of the many ways on this trip we've discovered that my feet are the most disgusting appendages on the planet. Ok on Paros, it was hotter than that.

So Paros is awesome, we swam in the Aegean Sea and we saw another set of boobs on the beach. We mostly ate, drank and hung out on the beach the whole time we were there. It was a pleasant change from our walking tours of 6 to 8 hours a day. Also on Paros their gyros have an extra topping: french fries! So aside from that not much to tell, the food was great, we had some desserts from this bakery each night we were there, enjoying them over cheap (2 euro) bottles of wine that stank. We also turned on the TV last night, something we've been missing and starting watching this movie. It had Bruce Willis so we thought cool. Then we saw it had Denzel Washington, so we thought super cool, what is this and why haven't we seen it already? BW and DW in the same movie means nothing but good stuff. It was The Siege, check it out, it was OK and a little crazy.

So now we're back in Athens, flight to Rome tomorrow. Train to Venice the day after that. Then my birthday in Venice and then on to Switzerland.

Now that you know what we'll be doing we don't need to blog again for about a week. Just kidding. We'll let you know our plane didn't crash and our train didn't derail. Take care everybody, enjoy my birthday.