Katakalon, Greece

May 18, we went to Katakalon, Greece. Katakalon is the site of the original Olympics. We saw the temples of Zeus and Hera and the museum. It was so amazing to stand exactly where the ancient Olympics were held.

Standing at the entrance of the Olympic arena

Laura and meRodney standing by the platform where they gave the medals
Bottom of a BIG column!

My peeps

This is the original arena where the games were held. Ed would not run the length of it, no matter how much I begged!

Temple ruins



Those crazy crazy boys!

Corfu, Greece

On May 17 we went to Corfu, Greece. There is an old fortress and beautiful ruins on a cliff with old walls. We went to the Palace of St. Michael and the Museum of Archeology, then to a seaside cafe for Greek beer! Everything is so old! We saw ruins dating from about 300 BC.

St. Michael



Old Fortress

On May 16 we headed to Dubrovnik, Croatia. I had no idea what to expect, but the city was incredible. The old city is surrounded by high walls, which we climbed and hiked around. It was hot, but afterward we found a cute little seaside bar named Buza, which Dianna had read about, and had a Croatian beer. We could see evidence of the 1991 Bosnian war, houses still in rubble and a few places where we could see a mortar had hit. I loved the way people hung their clothes on the lines outside their windows. A few photos:

Cafe BuzaA cannon on the old walls
From the top of the wall. I love the roofs!
From the old walls

You can see part of the wall here

We had poor or no internet coverage on the trip and I couldn't work on my blog. So I am going to try and do a city at a time with some of my favorite photos. Here are a few more photos from Venice:

Sailing away from Venice: Ed checked one thing off his bucket list: The Bridge of Sighs
The Rialto Bridge:

Good friends (hahaha!!!) (we talked them into doing this!)

This city has been beyond what I expected. It is so beautiful. On to Dubrovnik!!

Dubrovnik, Croatia

We went to Dubrovnik on Friday. We walked the walls of the old city. I've tried to download photos but it takes too long. Maybe tomorrow!



Saturday we went to Corfu and saw the old fortress and went to the archeological museum. We walked a lot again!



Today we are at Katakolon

We have walked miles - I have a blister! It is so beautiful here. A few photos:

This is our hotel:
Gondola parking lot:

Venice!!!

This place is so beautiful! We walked around and explored yesterday. We keep saying, "We're in Venice!"

We are in Venice! Flew all night and now it's 6:15 pm here and I think 10:00 a.m. at home. It was a long flight, as you can see:

It's Saturday - we leave tomorrow! We had a family brunch today to celebrate Mother's Day and the whole family came, except Janelle. Bailey got some new sunglasses:

Quite the dish!

And Dahlia was in a GOOD mood!

Only took a few photos though. I really love my family!

So we're off tomorrow -- I will try and post photos! Arrevidercci!

We made our tour reservations today. Italy, Greece and Turkey, here we come!

Heather and Janelle and I went to lunch. They are my girls. They are incredibly beautiful (and cute). Here they are (with me, of course, because this blog is about ME!)

Pernellie (well, her name is Nell but we like to call her Pernellie after my grandma. She adores the name!)

Heath

There are so many other cute girls. I must do a feature on each of them!!!

There are so many incredible people in my life that in my spare time I have decided to do a feature highlight on them. I think today I will start with my Eddie. He is my PERSON. Right now he's cooking for me. We have been married almost 18 years. He has many different facets to him. A few are as follows:

He is ALWAYS fashionable:

He has a HUGE basket

And a HUGE head! He loves to hang with his peeps

He loves to play pool with Bailey

And play dolls with Dahlia He is a babe magnet!

He has a cute smileHe loves the Red Sox!See what I'm saying? He is very cool.

I've decided to start a blog. Cade says blogs are lame but then Shanda and Jenny say blogs are cool. But we're going on a trip and I want to remember it, and also I have lots of things to say, so here goes:

We are getting together tonight to finalize the plans for our cruise. We leave one week from tomorrow! We are going with our friends pictured below:

Us:

Laura (Sabbatical Queen) and Rodney (Boy Toy Extraordinaire):

Karena:

Di:

and Shane (the one in the middle betweeen the two stunningly beautiful women):