hellloooooo!!!
ah okay GRANDMA SANDY- ive been meaning to write about this for the past few weeks but i keep forgetting but anywayyy.. i met a backpacker in Athens who lives in Afton, Virginia!!!! hahaha i thought that was funny.

okay but ahhhhhhhhh TODAYYYY=perfect.
our life certainly must be a movie.
yesterday we managed to do pretty much nothing but chill in our hammock at the hostel and recover so today we were peppy and ready to roll.
we got up in the morning and took the bus with three other kids from the hostel to this little secluded place called Preveli Beach (look it up on google images). another beautiful scene. im running out of adjectives to describe it.. Crete is a very very special place. but anyways its where a fresh water river meets the sea so its so cool.. we got there and walked down about a gazillion steps to get to the beach and finally made it to the sand. the water was crystal clear and perfect and there were a lot of people there lounging on the beach (some naked, some not haha..) we spent the afternoon swimming, tanning, and reading our books. what more could i want? but it gets better. at one point during the day i had swum out to this rock in like a little blue cove and was just dozing off when i hear jessica splashing and swimming towards me yelling. i sat up and she shouted "CHELSEA I FOUND TIM!!!" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahahha so Tim is the dreaded hippie guy riding his bike to India who we met at the SUNSHINE HOUSE!!!! haha he left like a week before us to come down to crete and he has been living in the mountains with some other hippies playing music all day and relaxing. hahaha so i dove off the rock and we found tim swimming naked in the water. he is going to santorini tomorrow on a 6:00 ferry which happens to be exactly the saem thing we are doing so we get to see him again. hahahah ahhhhh full circle. from there he is meeting up with his two friends that are the live statue people and we will be staying in another hostel for 3 nights, then going to Ios and Mykonos. sooooo life is funny. right now we are back at the hostel and we will be here for one more night. tomorrow we will get up and take a bus to Rethymno and then another to Iraklio to catch the ferry. wooooooooooo!!!!

okay well i hope all is welll across the pond.

LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.