It's Easter weekend, and to celebrate we are off to Greece. When we booked the tickets we weren't remembering it was actually Easter Sunday however the Easter bunny came early and in fact we are celebrating Easter with our friend Pantelis Andreou. He and his wife Susanne and their three kids are friends from Halifax but Pan is Greek and will be in Athens over Easter visiting his family. We are arriving midday tomorrow and Pan is meeting us and taking us back to join in the festivities with his relatives. Lambs will be roasted!! We are then going to spend some time in Athens, visit Sifnos, one of the islands, and are then staying at a friends condo about one and a half hours from Athens. We are hoping to do quite a bit of sight seeing using the condo as a base. The kids are on a two week holiday from school so we are trying to make the most of it! We are actually extending the two weeks a little to do a side trip to Rome. There should be lots to report over the coming weeks.
Last weekend we made a day trip to Morges for the tulip festival. It was quite spectacular and the weather was lovely. We also managed to attend a Palm Sunday service in Geneva, in the old, central Presbyterian church. It is beside the cathedral, and much smaller, but a beautiful church all the same. We came out to the ringing of bells throughout the city. That afternoon we got a close up view of the Jet d'Eau. If you see pictures of Geneva, the big jet of water in the middle of the lake is a landmark. You can walk along a jetty to get closer to it. If the breeze changes direction the spray can be quite dampening! Last night we had our neighbors over for dinner (they are Austrian and Brazilian) and today we lounged around in our other neighbors back yard eating cheese and drinking wine (they are German). They have a little creek running through their garden, rabbits, a guinea pig, a cat and kids the same age as ours, so lots to entertain everyone.
We are getting up tomorrow at 4:30 am so I am off to bed!!
Heather
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