We are home! We got home yesterday after flying all night and then we rolled from home to the showers to church. This is the kind of day we had yesterday . . .
On the way to church, 3 of the 4 kids fell asleep
We managed to keep the boys awake the rest of the day, but Camille was dropping into sleep every time we turned around. We finally let her stay asleep when she crashed at 4pm in the dog bed and I was only a few minutes behind her. Josh took a nap and then woke up for dinner or something and hung out with the boys last night, but Camille and I slept all the way through until morning.
I want to put Crete into words, but I’m going to let Carter have the first shot at summarizing our trip via the journal entries he wrote for his social studies class. (Really he sat down this afternoon and wrote the entire thing in one shot because he wasn’t doing any school work while we were traveling, aside from his reading. (I’ll save you the misspellings and poor penmanship.)
My Trip to Crete — Carter Chartier
October 3, 2014
My family and me left for Crete at 2 am on the 2nd of October. We landed in Crete at 6:30 am and got our luggage. After that we went to a place on base called Graffiti’s for breakfast, which was really good. After that we went to two monasteries, but one monastery was under construction
October 4, 2014
The next day after checking out of the Navy Lodge we went to our next place called Elea Apartments, which was really nice. After checking in we went a couple blocks down the street to the beach.
October 5, 2014
On the third day we went to botanical gardens and hiked and had lunch there. Then we went back to the beach and swam.
October 6, 2014
On Monday we went to a beach called Falassarna
October 7, 2014
October 8, 2014
We checked out of Elea and went to our next hotel Ton-Mari in Paleochora. After that we went to the beach.
October 9, 2014
We went to the beach again and then went to Anidri village.
October 10, 2014
Today my family and I went to Elafonissi beach, also known as the pink beach.
October 11, 2014
We checked out of Ton-Mari and drove to Sougia and checked into Gallini’s
October 12, 2014
We went to the beach in Sougia.
October 13, 2014
We went on a ferry (fairy) to Agia Roumelli and hiked half way up the Samaria Gorge and back to hang out at the beach.
October 14, 2014
We checked out and drove back up and ate lunch at the botanical gardens, then went to the Navy Lodge.
October 15, 2014
Went to the beach.
October 16, 2014
Went to the beach, then went to the airport.
October 17, 2014
Flew home.
Hmmm, I think he covered the high points, but I sure hope he remembers more details than that in his memories! I’ll be sure to fill in the stories over the next few days. It was a perfect vacation with lots of rest and relaxation and lots of time at the beach!