In addition to seeing the many amazing sights and eating far (far, far oh, so far) too many chocolate croissants, AJ lost his first tooth! The lower front two teeth have been wobbly for awhile and I can see the two GIANT teeth coming up behind them (oh the orthodontist bills in our future!)… but […]
May 1st is a big holiday in France. It is union day/workers’ day, and everything is closed. To be honest, I’d never heard of it, despite the fact that Michele kept telling me everyone around the world has the day off. She was not convinced by my commenting that not everyone has it off — […]
I should step back and mention that we are staying in Paris with my French parents, Michele and Gilbert. Set the Way Back Machine to a time of big hair and big shoulder pads (1987), and you will smell chlorine and see a young Kirsten on a swimming exchange program to France through Sports For […]
I love you. I took pictures of birds at the garden at Musée Rodin. Mama bought me two books there. I got a good looking chocolate cake for later. The people next to us are having a birthday party. Every morning we go to the bakery and I eat a chocolate croissant for breakfast. We […]
After a late arrival in Paris — and getting to bed at 10 pm, which is never good for me or the shortie — AJ slept in kind of late and woke up around 8 am. When I asked him what he wanted to do in Paris, his first response was: “I want to see […]
Today we leave for Paris. Not too much exciting happening… I packed while K&K entertained AJ. They got him a lovely t-shirt that has his name in Greek on the back and the name of every city we visited. It’s a very sweet gift; just don’t ask me to read any of it. As they […]
Today was our last full day in Greece. So for a change, we decided to stay close to home. K&K thought it would be a shame for us to stay in Kilkis …and see everything in the area except for Kilkis. It’s a fair point, really. So after a lovely morning of hanging out with […]
Today’s adventure required far less driving as we went to the city of Thessaloniki (~30-40 minute drive from Kilkis). Kostas drove around for a bit so we could see the old parts of the city (which are required to be built keeping with traditional style). We also saw the remnants of the wall which surrounded […]
Today we went to see Aristotle’s birthplace. It is a beautiful and amazing place with lots of history (as you probably could have guessed). There are remnants of of the town wall and the bottoms of giant containers that were in the basements of houses and held food or oil. There is also incredible plant […]
Today’s adventure involved all of the great elements: sea, sun, rain, mountains and gods. We started off in Thessaloniki to meet Katerina, who had a work meeting there. Part of our adventure involved walking along the sea where AJ and Ermis scampered around and collected as many rocks to chuck into the ocean as possible. […]