My dad is here visiting, here is a picture of Arthur and Nik in new outfits from Grandma and Grandpa Nelson in Colorado.

Sunday Concert

Daylight View of the Stage

Last Sunday we enjoyed a concert right next to our house, this was the music and singing that we heard on my birthday, they were practicing for the concert on Sunday. The film was taken from just outside of our house (the dark parts are when I was trying to get both Grandpa Nik and baby Nik on film, didn't turn out) and the picture is of Nik listening to the music. We didn't stay outside to long, to many people and it started at 9:30 at night and Nik was ready for bed at 10PM. The concert lasted until 12:30AM, I couldn't wait till it ended, Nik wasn't sleeping so well. Arthur also didn't have a very good night because the people that came for the concert wanted to have one beer and two glasses (our beer cost 1.50euro, it would have cost more to wash the glasses) so he sent people away and told them he couldn't serve them. Our beer price is probably the cheapest you will find in Greece, plus the bottle is huge, we only serve Amstel because the times we have tried a Greek beer it just doesn't sell and then when we don't have a Greek beer people keep asking for one.

American Headlines

Yes, Greece has had some interesting things happen lately including a Greek actor being stabbed multiple times in the back. But how about the American headlines...

4 year old shoots herself with Grandma's gun
2 girls shot multiple times in head and chest in rural Oklahoma town
Obama praising Clinton, please!

I still think it is 100 times safer to raise a child here than in the States.

Chocolate Milk

Arthur makes the best chocolate milk and this morning he made one for me and one for him. As we sat there sipping from our straws, Nik was transfixed watching us, so we put the straw in his mouth and next thing we know he sips up some chocolate milk. The surprise on his face when the milk went into his mouth was the funniest thing, but we were also surprised that he was even able to suck milk through a straw. I am really beginning to think we have one of the smartest babies out there, has anyone else had their baby sipping on straws at the young age of 4 and 1/2 months?

I made some Mexican burritos for lunch today, it was the first time I used this recipe from one of my cookbooks and it called for a whole lemon to be chopped and left in the meat while it was cooking, BIG MISTAKE. I don't know how to describe the taste but it was very astringent, I will definitely not be making that recipe again. It's a good thing that I went to the market on my new motor scooter just before lunch for some beers, because you really needed something to wash down the taste. We are pretty excited to let you know that we can now buy flour tortilla's at the supermarket.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY .......

At the young age of 32 I got some really awesome presents. They all came a day early, but I really got to enjoy them on my birthday. I woke up at 6:30, baby wanted to play, I asked Arthur to play with him I wanted to sleep in for my birthday. Arthur was nice enough to get up and try to entertain Nik but he did the entertaining so loudly that I just had to get up and see what all of the excitement was about. I enjoyed some fresh strawberries that Arthur got for me from Trikala and then we went down to KokaRoka and I got to ride my present A BRAND NEW VESPA. Arthur and I left baby Nik with his mom and we went shopping around town, Arthur on his bike and me on mine. We then came back and enjoyed Dolmades (rice wrapped in grape leaves) a very delicious lunch. For dinner I made homemade pizza and we ate it on the veranda listening to live music and singing from the stage set up next door. I then had a very nice hot bath with water heated from our new solar water heater and I could even hear the music in the bathroom.

Solar Water Heater

We now have water heated by the sun, very eco-chic. Nik was the first one to enjoy our solar heated water with a bath, I think we were more excited than him although he does like bath time.

Vespa Invespament

We got our Vespa, yippie, it is the coolest thing in town. Now some of you are going "Vespa?", well our original motor scooter wasn't coming in. They had the scooter in 100cc but we wanted something a little larger, we test drove the 100cc with both of us heavyweights on it and it just didn't seem like it would make it up our hills, so we upgraded to a Vespa LX 150cc, in Red. Arthur went to pick it up on June 4th just in time for my birthday so we are calling it my birthday present, it is the most expensive present ($4,650.00) I have ever received. We are calling it our investment because not many people can afford a Vespa and in 30 years it will be worth the same amount of money we paid for it or possibly be worth even more.

Pictures that shouldn't be taken

Naked pictures of Nik.

Arthur's watering the tree on our Sunday drive.

hey he took a picture of me peeing I should be able to do the same