We were up at nine this morning so that we could get ready and get out to go to Rethymno to see the Carnivale parade in the city! Everyone has been telling us for weeks that we really, really need to not miss this while we are here and that the kids will love it. …
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March 12, 2016: Our Video Game Day This Week
Today was a short day for us, up late and off to bed early. It’s Saturday and we spent most of the day playing video games together. The video game laptop and projector in the game room are really paying off. One of our best investments for quite some time. We had guessed that these …
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March 11, 2016: Our Travel Plans Are Finalized
Today is Friday and it is really dawning on us now that we are “nearly” done with our time here on Crete. This particular cycle feels like it has really, really flown by even though it is our longest stay yet in any location. This is the first time that we have actually pushed our …
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March 10, 2016: Running into Rethymno
Today was a very busy day with some big errands to run. We are meeting the owner of the house’s wife in the city of Rethymno (which is very close) to pay for the heating fuel oil later today and we need to coordinate a bunch of stuff. So getting up this morning was nothing …
March 9, 2016: Home Made Butter
Today, for Liesl’s school science project, she is making home made butter! This actually came up in her curriculum some time ago but our local corner store has nothing even remotely like cream so we have been unable to start the project at all. Liesl reminds us every day or two that we need to …