Poll Outcome and Brief Update

As I sit here in an internet cafe drinking a Mythos beer and watching the Barcelona game, I am pleased to say that with your help we have decided to head south, to Crete. We were hoping to combine a couple options by taking a ferry to Crete to the Peloponnese Peninsula and head to napfolio. However, due to our booked flight to Rome on the 22nd and Greek Orthodox Easter shutting everything down in Greece on the 19th, this is out of the question. So, we'll live it up in Crete and enjoy greek easter and its red egg until we have to head to the mainland for our flight.

As for what we're up to now, well we're in Santorini staying in a cute little pension (room for rent) that has a shared terrace that overlooks the island's caldera. For those of you who don't know, this island is the sight of perhaps the world's largest volcano eruption. Now, the island is essentially just the outer rim (crescent shaped) of what was a pretty good size round island. We spent most of today on one of the black sand beaches, although Paula and I just got done enjoying a take out gyoro's and a bottle of local red wine from our shared terrace. Tomorrow we take a boat trip around the island, stopping at a couple small volcanic islands in the center of the caldera to swim in the hot springs and have some lunch. On Monday, we'll head to Crete.

It's seems like such a long time since we left home although its only been a little over a week. For those of you who don't know, the Greek islands and Greece itself it seems, is covered in dogs and cats. I asked a person here if there's any Greek person alergic to cats or dogs, but they either didn't know what I was asking or they thought it stupid question because of course the Greek aren't alergic. Either way, it's made us think about our cats and pooch a lot. Yes, we love our animals. We also VERY much love our parents who are jointly looking after them while we're gone. Thank you so much for everything, familia.