Grecia

After some sad goodbyes and several frantic weeks of wrapping up everything in the Dominican... we finally left for our trip!

We drove out from Bobita at 8am on Tuesday, in the middle of Hurricane Gustav. No problem flying out- and we headed to NYC, where we got lost in an airport weve been through ten thousand times. We hang out for a while, get on a flight to London overnight, which arrives at Heathrow a bit late... so late that we missed our flight to Greece!

Sooo... we waited and took another overnight flight, getting us into Greece at 3am on Thursday. This morning, we slept at the airport until the trains started running, took a two hour bus to the plain of Marathon (an extremely important battlesite - ask TJ about it), realized that the battlesite was basically a big field with not much more information, took the bus back to Athens, took a cab to two different bus stations (one wrong, one right), hopped a three hour bus to Delfi (a famous ancient oracle and hillside ruins complex) and checked into a cute little hotel for cheapiecheapie (which in Euros... is not that cheap.)

We hustled over to the ruins site, but were too late to see them before they closed, BUT we were able to look through the museum which was wonderful. We had dinner at a great Greek restaurant (roasted lamb, souvlaki, moussaka...mmm...) and are now typing on the blog before we crash into bed. This will be our first shower, change of clothes & rest in a bed in 3 or 4 days. Or something like that. We've lost track. We'll wake up early enough to see the ruins site, hop a bus back to Athens, where we will (hopefully) board a boat for two weeks in the Great Green (the Mediterreanean- again, ask TJ).

Thanks for all your prayers and well-wishes! TJ says its the best (and longest-and shortest) birthday he's ever had. Figure that out!