Day 7- Santorini

Greetings from Santorini! We are sitting in an internet overlooking the caldera right now- it's quite spectacular! We had a bit of drama today- we took the highspeed ferry from Paros and of course had nothing booked. So we got to Santorini and the when we got off on the port mom thought it looked like we were in a mine pit- it's right at the bottom of the cliffs. A man lured us to his hotel promising it was in Fira- the main town. So we went with this strange man in his van to his hotel- which turned out to be in the middle of nowhere on the other side of the island of the caldera. It was also in what I considered to be the hood of Santorini- it didn't look at all like the image I had in my head. It was a good 15 minutes out of Fira- which isn't even the nicest town. So we left our stuff at the hotel- which was clean although in a sketchy area. We had lunch over the caldera and decided we needed to stay in a place with Caldera views. So we walked back to the hotel on the sketchy road and went back to the hotel to get our stuff. The owner wasn't there so we just took our stuff and mom wrote a nicely worded note saying thanks but no thanks...we then ran out and got a cab to our current hotel. It's GORGEOUS!!! Right on the caldera with a pool and a beautiful room. I am still expecting to see fugitive posters with our faces on them since we didn't pay the guy and he did drive us from the port but hopefully it all works out! We got to see the sunset over the caldera and had a great meal. We are now off for our standard dessert of gelato- of course!! Tomorrow we will just be wandering around Santorini