We're moving!!

If you are reading this your initial reaction may be WHAT??? Where to now? BUT the reality is we are just moving to the other side of Stuttgart. Right now we live more on the east side, and we are moving to the west side. Sounds getto, I know. We found a BRAND NEW single family house that was for rent!!!

The outside

Greece July 09

We went to Greece for 2 weeks at the beginning of July. What an awesome vacation!!!! We flew in to Athens, spent a day there and then drove to Volos. On our way to Volos we drove through the mountains and stopped by Delphi. Very neat place. After arriving in Volos, we spent a few nights there and then headed to Skiathos where we met up with our Skipper Andrew for a 1 week adventure on a sailboat. I must admit it ranks up there as one of the best vacations we have ever taken. Once you spend a week on a boat with no itinerary, you really don't want to spend any vacations in a hotel. I think I am still relaxed from the trip :)

Our friend Marco

View of the sunset in Volos Athens

This is the view from a REALLY fancy hotel bar. You could just smell the money! Not to mention how much we spent on 4 drinks. 100 Euro!!! The view was definately worth it.

Us in Athens

At Delphi

The sunset on our way to dinner in Volos

Brian, Jess and Afrodidi

Our boat

Our skipper Andrew chilling out. He was the drummer in the band King Crimson.

These are wild goats that come down the mountain at sunset. The live on one of the islands, which is where we anchored for a night. The leader of the pack was wearing a bell and as they came down the mountain you could here where he was. They were very hard to see, but we managed to capture a decent picture with the little bit of zoom we had on the camera.

Yes, the water is really this clear. Beautiful!

Diane and Jess

Dave and Jess

The cove right next to Mamma Mia

I am by no means a professional photographer. The full moon was absolutely beautiful that night. It took many many pictures, most of which were black, but I managed to get a decent picture. Mamma Mia

View of one of the ports from the boat

Marco and Dave cooked awesome chicken for dinner on the beach.

Brian

Another beautiful view of the water

Me admiring the view

The view from one of the ports we stopped at. We took the bus up to the top of the mountains.

The whole sailboat crew!

Dave, Jean, Diane, Dave, Megan, Jessica, Brian & Marco

Tackiness update

Isn't he just so cute?

Its a bug thing

Not too sure what kind of bug this is, but we thought he was pretty cool

A few more

Here are some more pics of our trip home....

My sister and I - My best friend

Heater, Dustin and Eli A quick famly pic the night before we left

Brian, my mom and Duncan

My cousins - Duncan and Kevin

Eli loving his first car

Mom, Eli and I

"Aunt Jessica you are so silly"

This one is for you Sievers... Remember the chicken, he lives on :)

This chicken sings and dances to none other than the chicken dance..who would have guessed right? When I was over at my sisters, we showed it to Eli. He really didn't know what to think about the chicken as you can see from his face. The first couple of times singing the chicken dance (and yes of course we were dancing) with Eli was fun, but you can only dance and sing the chicken dance so many times before you start to go crazy...and yes the toy was soon turned off :)

Mimi was feeding Eli while I was distracting him

Volos Awaits!

Brian and I are going on a sailboat for 7 days with 3 other couples the beginning on July!!!! Where shall we be going you might ask, well it is up to us. There is no planned itinerary. Very exciting! We will be flying in to Athens and are then headed to Thessaloniki. From there we are leaving from Volos! Can't wait!! These are videos are of one of the places we are planning to stop at.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kA5Gg5Qb8g&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoAzLSyg1PU&feature=related

Now we're friends

Murphy and Bailey have become better friends over the past few months. Not to say they weren't friends before, but they didn't used to sit on the same sofa at all, let alone a love seat. I guess ever since Murphy showed Bailey how to get Beef Jerky from Wendell, things have changed.