January 12, 2016: First Night Out in Greece

I was up at ten today.  My jet lag is vastly improved.  I got up at least an hour or more before Dominica was up.  Easily two hours.  I went down to the office and worked on posting all morning.  It was quite busy.  Also tested out the Nylas N1 email client.  So far I am liking it.  It is actually easier to use with Office 365 than Outlook is on Windows!

When Liesl got up, she decided to make today all about hidden object games.  When she wasn’t doing school she was playing hidden object games for most of the day.  She is currently playing the “9 Clues” series.

Luciana remembered the “reindeer catch” that we played yesterday and made me play it for nearly an hour today.  The girls think that catching the stuffed reindeer is so much fun.

We spent a few hours getting the entire family showered and dressed and out the door this afternoon for our first, ever night out in Greece.  Even the girls were asking if we could go out to dinner at this point!  We had no idea what we were going to do until we were out and on the road.

We didn’t leave to go to dinner until well after seven.  We started by driving to the market in Atsipopoulo and stocking up on cereal and some other stuff that we can not get in Prines.  Then hit the ATM to make sure that we are set with cash as we do not come out this way all that often.

After our errands we talked about what we wanted to do for food.  We had seen several little local restaurants open in Atsipopoulo but Dominica felt like going down into Rethymno so we drove down there.

With some magic and good memory, I got us out onto the beach front road by the marina and drove until we found where lots of other people had parked and just got out and walked the beachfront strip – what would be essentially a boardwalk in the States but it is all paved in wonderful, old tile.

Living Room Lounge
Luciana and Liesl at the Living Room Lounge in Rethymno, Crete

We got out and walked the entire water front so that Dominica and the girls could see what the options were.  The girls were just in a mood for pizza, though, and we saw a nice looking place advertising pizza right where we had parked.  So we walked all of the way back and ate at the Living Room Lounge and Cafe.  We had wanted to sit outside but for food they recommended inside.  So inside we went.

Dominica and Scott at the Living Room Lounge in Rethymno, Crete. Lit by the light of the glowing table.

Dinner ended up being awesome.  We really liked the place, even though it was packed beyond capacity, and the food was excellent.  The girls both ate really well and enjoyed it a lot.  After dinner they even brought us, on the house, the most amazing profiterole to share with a hazelnut chocolate cream.  It was so good.  Luciana ate a lot of the profiterole.

Luciana with Pizza
Happy Luciana Enjoying Her Pizza

After dinner we just drove back home.    Relaxed at the house.  Some how the girls managed to stay up until one thirty in the morning!  Dominica was busy playing a video game and lost all track of time.  I was working in the office and did not realize that it was one until, well until it was one. So I rushed them off to bed as soon as I realized.