Living Life & Loving it!: Day 3: Santorini

Almost five years ago when I began my Mary Kay business as a brand new beauty consultant, I created a dreams list. At the top it read, “If I could have anything, be anything, or do anything.....I would:” Two at the very top read: “Go on a top sales director trip”, and “Go to Greece”! How cool is that? If you haven’t already made your list, I HIGHLY encourage it. Since starting my business I have crossed off almost 75% of my list. Dreams really do come true with Mary Kay. With that being said, I have officially added another item to my dreams list: Buy a summer home in Santorini. Cody and I fell in love with this island today. The colors, architecture, culture....AMAZING!

The day started with another breakfast on the balcony as we pulled up to Santorini. While we were waiting for our tour to board the tender, I had a chance to visit with some other directors.

Brenda Bennett and Lia- Isn't she BEAUTIFUL?!?

Our tour was called, “The highlights on Santorini” which offered panoramic tour all around the island. Funny thing was, I noticed MOST of the sales directors took the “Santorini SHOPPING experience” LOL...I’m telling you, these directors are HARD CORE shoppers! :-) After boarding our tender we met up with our guide and a fun surprise! Our tour bus was a PINK mercedes!! Do you think that was planned?!?!? LOL.

We drove up a REALLY scary zig zag road. I was so glad Cody was by the window! Every time I leaned over all I saw was the drop off the cliff! Then I realized why the tour guide introduced our driver and then said “And....just trust him, he is a very good driver!!”

We made our way to Ois. Now, Santorini is beautiful but most photos you see are from Ois.

It was such a charming little town! There were dogs and cats everywhere!
I knew going on the trip that I wanted to find a fabulous piece of art! The blue and white colors of Santorini would go so perfectly in our living room! We took some gorgeous pictures! The highlight of this time for me was accidentally not understanding the signs and going into the men’s restroom. OOPS!! Lucky for me there were no director’s husbands in there, just a very confused Greek man. LOL.

Lia and Million Dollar Director Lisa Ann Harmon!

We boarded another bus and headed to another city where we sat down and had a authentic Greek meal showcasing the traditional food. SO yummy!! I got to visit with 3 other directors....it was a great time of sharing ideas and hilarious stories. The one thing I do love about this cruise is that there are so many tour groups and on each one are 2-5 sales directors so it’s really given us the opportunity to meet one on one versus in a large group.

We ended the day on the other side of Santorini where I found my painting (YAY!!!!!!) and we did some great shopping and had amazing Gelato!

There were 3 options of going down back to the ship: by cable car, by donkey, or to walk down. I REALLY wanted to go by donkey, but we decided to play it on the safe side and keep my back safe (from my car accident 3 weeks ago) so we walked down instead. I was SO bummed, but I’m sure I’ll be back another time! :-) Besides, with all of this food they are feeding us we really needed to burn some calories!! :-) 25 minutes later, and our legs shaking we reached the bottom!