Best trip of my life: part 4

My trip ended with a super awesome weekend with my girlfriends in Baltimore and DC. Brookie showed us around her hometown, we got stuck in a ginormous rainstorm, and had the true Maryland experience by dissecting crabs with our bare hands. DC rained on us as well, but we made the most of it with our blue ponchos. The monuments were super cool, and it was so fun to spend some time with brooke, holly, and jess before we all went our separate ways.

seriously so sick...

i did this to this poor poor crab, but it was delish....

holly and i just love each other

this is me trying to look really pretty by this really disgusting water

ponchos!!

us at the Lincoln Monument

super pretty DC sunset

FDR monument... one of my favorites

you have no idea how hard we worked for this hamburgers. worth it.

holly and i stayed an extra day together and we loved every minute of it.

Best trip of my life: part 3

falling in love with new york city...
on my way back from greece, i spent a couple of days in new york city and then met some friends in DC... new york is amazing. my friend kent was nice enough to let me stay at his house... and i spent my days exploring new york. the MOMA was my favorite.

slumber party at kent's

times square

this was my favorite piece at the moma

and this is it up close

also, i love taking my shirt off on my lunch break and tanning in the middle of new york city while i read the newspaper, don't you?

mykanos

I've been in hawaii for the last two weeks, so i never got to finish blogging about my amazing trip. the last island we went to was mykanos. i was only there for a day, so i didn't get to see too much of it, but it was pretty amazing. The wind there is insane.

me at the port...

we had no plan as to where we would stay when we got here. we were just walking around somewhat aimlessly, when a lady pulled up in a little car, asked us if we needed a place to stay, and then took us to a lovely little hotel, right by the port.

windmills!!!

jess consulting the map

paradise beach... who knew it was going to be a gay/lesbian club???

mykanos is so windy!

just having a light conversation at our hotel

we are there!

our trip ALMOST ended flawlessly, until we waited at the port for FOUR HOURS for my ferry to arrive. apparently, everyone in Mykanos knew that my boat was coming at 8:30 am rather than 5am, except us! I left a few days earlier than jess so I had a lovely 50 hour travel day all to myself. It started with a ferry from mykanos to athens... then a flight from athens to london... then switching airports, and flying from london to NYC... oh the joys of traveling cheap.

Part 2.2

Santorini...

So Santorini was my favorite island by far. We managed to get ourselves a really cheap hostel just one block away from a black sand beach, then rented some lounge chairs and umbrellas and slaved our lives away to the Grecian sun. We visited a town called Fira a couple of times for a beautiful sunset and delicious crepes, but on our last night there we realized that Fira was in fact not the town that we had come to Santorini for. So we hopped on our little ATV, explored the island, got ourselves a little lost, and finally found a little piece of heaven in a little town called Ia. So good.

Fira

Ia