OHHHHHHHHH SANTORINIII!!! its a dream land... nothing else can really describe it. it seems as though i just jumped into a painting or something. everything has looked completely fake and i cant really wrap my mind around it. i look but its hard to actually see. difficult predicament haha. but i think everyone should come here one day just to see the sunset in Oia- its like nothing else in this world!!!!!

but anywayssssss.. the past two days have been terrificccc!!! adventures to the max. we rented ATVs for the time here so its been awesomeeeee!! jessica and i just roll around and it takes about one hour to get from one side of the island to the other. jessica prefers the passenger side so i have been the DRIVERRRR successsssssssssss. im buying an ATV one day.

SO...
Day ONE: we got up at around 10 maybe and headed over to the restaurant across the steet from the hostel (where we get a discount) to get some breakfast with our canadian friend. wonderful. then us and one other canadian rented ATVs and began the dayyy. they gave us helmets for the ATV and of course jessica gets this badass one while the guy hands me some helmet that looks exactly like a jockey hat thing and kind of reminds me of Seabiscuit so the rest of the time we called it my Seabiscuit hat hahaah. we started off on one end of the island where there was this beautiful lighthouse on top of the cliff that overlooked the caldera. we took some gnarly pictures on the edge of this rock that looks like we were at the end of the earth and headed back to our ATVs and sped off to the Red Sand Beach. the beach really was red and there were a lot of lava rocks from the volcano. we took a swim in the water and then climbed back up the cliff to continue on. the next stop was Fira (the main town on top of the cliff) where we did some souvenir shopping, ate gyrossss, and meandered through the streets. after a few hours we decided to head off to Oia to see the sunset. We were told the sunsets in Oia were the best that one would ever see so we figured we should check it out. when we got back to the ATV jess had the realization that if we tied my sarong around her neck it would loook like a cape when we went fast hahahah succcessssssssssss. So of course we did that. ahhhhhhhhhhh ahhah so if we wrote a book or made a movie this would be the cover of it.. Just imagine: chelsea and jessica flying through the countryside of santorini on an ATV with my seabiscuit hat and jessicas cape flying behind her hahahahah...... ahhhh ive never laughed so hard. we looked ridiculous and we were rolling down the coast and i thought surely this would be the shot that described our entire trip hahahaah. anywayssssss, we got to Oia a few hours before sunset and of course ran into Ricky and Nasim from the Sunshine House in the first minute. the 3 germans riding their bikes to India were staying with friends at a bookstore in Oia and spent the day playing music and doing live statue for money. haha and actually last night the 5 of them slept in a cave on one end of the island.. ohhhhhhhhhhh the people we know in Santorini. so OIA- what can i say???? it looks fake. its so beautiful. its amazing. its the most romantic place in the world. its everythinggg. just google image it. my words do no justice. its the picture that everyone has in their head when you say "Greece". its just tons of cute little white and blue houses, shops, restaurants stacked on top of each other on the cliff side overlooking the sea and caldera. ahhhhhhhhhhhhh its awesome. we walked around for a bit, took about 2000 pictures, and then jessica and i decided to duck into a cute little coffee shop for desert. we split a chocolate soufle thing and it cost more than our hostel hahaha. oia is like a honeymoon mecca and people there have cashhhh so we were kind of out of place haha.. ahhh but it is worth it. it was so romantic and we saw so many cute couples. anyways at around 8:30 we followed all the other tourists to this little cliffside to watch the sunset. the best one i have seen in my life. the colors.. ahh the colors. i cant really say any more about it haha. once the sun finally hit the water everyone started clapping and we meandered back onto the cobblestoned streets. our friends from the sunshine hosue were performing so we watched them for a bit (playing the standard krishna music we know oh so well haha) and then found ourselves sucked into a jewelry store deciding which engagement ring we would most prefer haha. the guy at the store took pity on our bedraggled looks and decided to make our day by bringing out the most expensive rings for us to try on hahaha. so yes jessica and i each had $48,000 on our hands. i debated for one slight second whether to run and sell the ring to go buy a ballin ATV but decided against it. after about 30 minutes of indulging our romantic girly sides we left to go find our canadians and make the trek back to the hostel. we sped home on scary cliffsides with the cape flying high and made it back for showers and joining some others at the bar. we took it easy though.. IOS is coming :)

Day TWO: another epic one. jessica and i went on our own today on the ATVs and it was awesomeee. we went straight to Fira to explore a little more and see the cliffside. as we were walking we saw a sign that said "Donkeys.. that way". YES must follow signssss, must ride donkeys in santoriniiiiiiii!!! so we walked like down like 5 bazillion steps to the bottom of the cliff to one of the most chaotic scenes i have ever witnessed hahahaha. ahh all i can remember is all these restless donkeys and one indian woman screaming and falling off her donkey while a short greek man tried to left her back onto it. jessica and i were quickly hearded onto our own donkeys and with nothing more than a lift on to the donkey we were thrown into the a mad dash of donkeys to the top of the cliff.. it could have been the funniest thing on this entire trip. hahaha ahhhh just imagine pure chaos, a bunch of astounded tourists, 20 donkeys bookin it up the steps, one girl getting covered in donkey poop, jessica on a little baby horse, my donkey racing another one for first place, 10 of us cracking up, trying to take pictures, running into a group of donkeys going down, ahhhhhh hahahahahha it was the BEST. i was laughing the entire 20 minutes!!! nothing can really describe how funny it was.. i have a video though that ill put up eventually that kind of captures it hahaa. after that jess and i sat on the steps at the top and laughed for a longgg time, headed back to the ATVS, a flew off to Oia again. we walked around more, found a nice path on the cliff and listened to music, and of course ran into sunshine people again. we then decided it was completely necessary to splurge and eat a fancyyyyyyyyyy mealllll in a fancyyy place while the sunset. so we did and it was gooood. hhahahah but we were soo out of place.. i can see the dirt caked into my dress and we were sitting next to people on their honeymoon. ahh success. after that we watched the sunset, flew back to the hostel on our atvs, found a creperie to fufill our addiction (thanks food break), and now we are at this internet cafe!!!!!!

AHHH AND THATS EVERYTHIGN hahahhaa

TOMOROW WE GO TO IOS TO PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOD TIMESSSSSSSSSSSSSS