Finally an update. I am alive and well. We just arrived on the island of Paros (pah-ros) this morning and already I feel sooo much better. It is warmer today than it has been since we arrived in Greece Wednesday night. Athens was a trip, especially since Kris was sick with a cold which he acquired on our first flight over to London. Plus we were both quite jet-lagged from the day of travel, one night in a hostel, and the ten hour time difference. It was tough at first. Plus it's a huge sprawling city like LA but MUCH more dense. I am currently trying to download photos, we'll see how it works trying to upload them onto here or another site. Shutterfly and Photobucket want me to download some program before I can upload onto their sites, which I can't do since this is an internet cafe.

I just met a woman from Indiana, I am lending her my travel book right now :)
All the camping on Paros is closed for the season so we secured a small studio on the opposite side of the bay from the town Parikia. There is a crappy beach right here in town but just past our studio there are a few beautiful beaches including a really tiny cove-like one that I plan to check out tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will hold for a while. Our current plan is to stay here for a week, head over to Naxos which is a 90 minute ferry ride from here. Stay there for a bit and then go to Santorini. Since it looks like we may not be able to camp until Crete we may shorten our stay on Naxos and Santorini.

The ferry from Athens was a little over 4 hours - we left our studio in Athens at 6:00am, we were so excited to get out of there. The city was a bit oppressive, kind of dirty, and simply not what I was looking for right now. Immediately stepping off the ferry I felt lighter and happier. We rented a moped today which I haven't photographed yet, but I will. It is fun but I would NEVER ride one in Athens, people drive insanely. On our way out this morning I saw a smashed kitty on the side of the road just a block from our studio, it made me even more happy to leave. We enjoyed the stray dogs and cats that wander all over the city so seeing one of them destroyed was a bit sad. Yeah, I know that's life and everything but I like animals, they speak a wordless language that makes sense to me and always has.

Kris is very happy right now watching Futbol while I type away, I think it's Liverpool and some other team, heh heh. Well I will try to upload pictures now, I've already been using this for an hour - my first download attempt failed due to a couple of videos I forgot about.

Love to you all.

PS. My fundraising thermometer has gone beyond my original goal and was at about $3,185 last I checked. This is actually good because transportation costs will add up in Kenya and are not included in the hospitality fees.