Ahhhhhh, Skopelos

Currently our family is staying in a wonderful house in Skopelos town, on the Greek island of Skopelos (click for more info). The island, though certainly busy, is not frequented by tourists, at least not American ones, although we did meet a family from Wichita Falls, TX on Thursday! This stop is truly a vacation stop for our family. Many of our stops include capital cities and major sightseeing involving lots of walking, but this one is about family time & RELAXING! It's not that we aren't exploring the island, but we're doing it at a nice leisurely pace. We arrived Thursday afternoon after a two-and-a-half hour bus ride followed by a two-and-a-half hour ferry ride. A man and his daughter met us at the pier and drove us to the neighborhood where we're staying. We couldn't exactly just get a taxi since our house has no address! To get mail here, people go to the post office & give their names & pick it up. The population is not much less than my home town, but the living areas are very compact. Our house is tall and skinny. It has three floors. The first contains a tiny kitchen, a bathroom, and a small dining room. The second houses two bedrooms and the third a small refridgerator, a bathroom (toilet and sink only) and two terraces. One terrace has an oven and range and the other a grill -- nice. Wade has cooked all our meals save one up there since our arrival. He doesn't mind doing it while he looks out at the ocean and the mountains! I still don't like washing dishes by hand, but I must admit it's nicer when I have this sort of view. We've slipped into a vacation schedule. Friday morning we had breakfast at the crack of 10:30am and had supper about 10:00pm.