The Weekly Report

Hello all! It looks like I have fallen into weekly reports, but not to worry, you haven't missed too much! The last Sunday was spent lounging about, which was quite nice. The week went along pretty much as normal. Work in the lab has finally gotten a little busier now that items have filtered through all the paperwork in registration and made their way over to us. The highlight of this week was learning how to use the x-ray machine and then develop the x-rays old fashioned style in a dark room. ^^ It was quite fun. Outside of that it was a pretty quite week as far as doing things. Our afternoons were mostly spent lounging somewhere and enjoying some down time. One afternoon, though, Brett and I attempted to walk to Vasiliki, which is a Bronze Age site only about 40 minutes away from Pachia Ammos by foot. We had some bad directions, so we never made it, but it was a pretty walk all the same!

This gorge is in the midst of the mountains on the far side of the valley we sit in

Our walk took us through some nice little olive groves.

And along some paved roads.

The view looking back was fabulous, too, even if we didn't find the site!

 The other best part of this week was the kitties. There are kittens eeeeeverywhere. Most of them are very skittish, but they are absolutely adorable all the same.

There's three of these little guys who live outside of Marco's, one of the hotels some people are staying in.

They're so tiny and fluffy! But they don't like to be pet. Oh well...

 Walking up to work this week was really pretty, too, because we had some clouds wander through. It brought a few cool days, and really pretty sunrises.

 On Saturday Brett and I went to Ierapetra to get money at the ATM and to do a bit of wandering and shopping. We went to see the Venetian fortress, Kales, there too, which was pretty cool

The outside...

And the inside!

And more inside! It's not terribly big, but it would have done the job of defending the harbor.

Me! ^^

On an awesome Venetian wall.

We wandered past this little street in Ierapetra. The towns can be so pretty here!

 And... more kitties. Because they were adorable, and I had to have more pictures of them being adorable!

This kitten actually lives in the alley way that runs alongside our hotel. We named him Blinky, because one of his eyes had a bit of trouble earlier, and he's my favorite kitten because he's the only one that lets us pet him! He's most adorable.

Last night, too, there was a beach party here, which was a lot of fun. They set up a DJ and a little bar out on the sand and there was music and dancing and lots of fun to be had. And since parties rarely end before 5 or so... today was spent sleeping in and being lazy. One more week to go! Hope all is well back home, loves!