Day 13 - Olympia (Katakolon), Greece - July 24 - Happy Anniversary to Jim and me We were getting tired of hassles, so last night we booked ourselves on a tour of Olympia since it was not straightforward to get to it on our own by train, bus or taxi. Sally had booked a winery tour for her and Pat which required almost no walking for Pat. Our tour was slow-paced, but enjoyable (we were ready for some slow pace). The boys really enjoyed racing on the ancient Olympi...

Day 12 - Santorini (Port of Fira), Greece We made arrangements with Shane, the Cruise Director, to get under-the-table tender tickets for the first tender off the ship today. They used the boat's tenders to get people with shore excursions off the boat to a different port first thing, then about an hour later the port of Santorini sent tenders over to take us to the bottom of the cliff at Fira - the main port town. Our activity for today was a sailboat cruise ar...

Day 10 continued - Mykonos While I was out blogging, Jim was wandering the streets. He came in to grab my camera, as a man was walking one of the pelicans down the sidewalk. The paparazzi (tourists) were all over, snapping pictures and running ahead to get the perfect picture. The man grabbed a key from under a mat, opened the public handicapped WC, walked the pelican in, and locked the door behind him - the pelican seeming like it was the most natural thing in ...

Day 10 - Mykonos, Greece I have no idea what time I awoke this morning. The sun was up, so I got up and finished my book. When I looked at Noah's iTouch (I should have known better) it said it was 10am, so I thought it was late and everyone was sleeping in. I got up and went to breakfast. It wasn't crowded, so I figured everyone was already finished. Then I logged into my computer and it was 9:30, so I must have gotten up early. As I was eating we pulled into a ...

Day 6 - On the boat It was a cruising day today. I worked on blogging and pictures as well as some laundry and caught happy hour with Sal and Pat. The boys went from basketball and soccer on the top deck to video games in the kid hangout room. It was formal night, so we ate formally (without the kids, of course, who RUN from that kind of thing), then watched a fantastic show by a lady named Jeri Sager who has been in several Broadway musicals and sang show tunes...