Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas! David and I had a very nice Christmas. On Christmas Eve we took a drive to Ancient Corinth and to the town of Loutraki. Loutraki is on the sea about 1 hour from Athens. It is a very cute town with a beautiful beach. For dinner on Christmas Eve we went to a wonderful Thai restaurant for dinner. Of course we went at 9:00 and we were still the only people in the restaurant. The Greeks don't usually eat until 10:00-10:30 which is beyond me.

On Christmas we woke up in the morning and opened all of our presents. We were extremely blessed this year! We had planned on going to the 11:15 Greek/English mass on Christmas day but unfortunately we were given the wrong mass time and ended up sitting through the French mass. It was a beautiful service very traditional but still in French. After church we came home and had Dan, Stacy, Colin and our friend Ann over for Christmas dinner. We had ham and all the usual sides. It was hard to be so far away on Christmas but it was still a wonderful day.

David had the last three days off of work which was great. We had Monday and Tuesday off from the US Government and then yesterday was a Greek Holiday so the Embassy was closed yesterday as well. I think Mr. Mark had a hard time getting out of bed this morning.

Sorry I didn't keep up with the blog last week. I really didn't have anything going on so I didn't post to spare you very boring blog entries. Today it is cold and rainy and I am going to clean up around the house and go to the farmers market with Stacy and Colin. Tomorrow I am going up to Susan's house for a girls lunch.

Enjoy the pictures from Loutraki and Ancient Corinth!

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