Monday, July 16, 2007

The 26 hour weekend


Each Saturday, we get off of work at 6 and are released from dinner. We report back to ‘work’ at ouzo hour on Sunday evenings at 8. As one of my co-campers stated, it’s probably good that we don’t have two evenings off – we’d only get in trouble!

This weekend, we rented a car. It was so fun to buzz around the island. We went for drinks, dinner and dancing on Saturday. I have no comment about this except for the photo. Please don’t even ask! Wild night. We spent most of Sunday laughing at me for the antics of Saturday evening and early morning!

On Sunday, Amy was kind enough to drive me up the hill to Mass. When I got back we all headed to the ‘sandy beach’ – the only beach on the island that isn’t mostly stones. There was loud europop, comfortable beach chairs and umbrellas, and pool toys courtesy of Hugh. This is the life, my friends. Here too, the photo says it all.

Sunday evening, Professor McCredie hosted us at his house for a drinks and snacks. The house is lovely – a cantilevered design built into the hill and framed around a central court and grape arbor that spans the outdoor corridor in the center of the house. The corridor has lovely mosaics of river stone that Professor McCredie, his children and colleagues installed one summer. I can see why he’s happy to spend so many summers here!

Today it was back to work, but I’m enjoying learning all about ancient Greek coins! Hope you had great weekends as well!

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