Saturday, October 27, 2012

A Rainy Climbing Trip



 found a friend for jonas, her name is zara.
i don't get a lot of chances to take pictures of the outdoors.  However, we (tomasz, nadia, xristo and i) had a chance to go for a quick climbing trip this weekend.  We spent a few hours (it started raining) in the nestos river valley, one of my favorite areas on the mainland.  The picture below is a photo of a sandbar in the middle of the river.  I love the colors. 

Sunday, October 21, 2012


 this is by far the best part of my job.  reading.  especially when it happens on a sunday morning with coffee and cookies.  this is my second time teaching a farewell to arm and my first time tackling a piece by dostoyevsky.  they are challenging, deep, yet timeless and motivating.  i find that the kids are able to brag to their friends when they finish, it is something that is impressive.
 followed up my morning book read with a lunch out with friends. 
 i love this picture of her, the earring just makes it. 
the aftermath of lunch.  those mushrooms were as good as they look. 

Sunday, October 14, 2012

New Food, Searching for Chestnuts and Our God Son Turned 2

eleftheria has been trying a bunch of new recipes lately.  this one is a grilled chicken breast with an onion chutney thing, white wine baked carrots, and boiled squash with olive oil salt and pepper.  
we checked out our first 3d movie on our new tv.  MIB III; a great movie for 3d and fun overall.  the 3d kind of messes with the sub-titles.
 this was a good one too.  grilled salmon, fava, toasted bread and a spinach salad.
 we went out today to look for chestnuts up in the hills outside thessaloniki.  it was a great break.

 found this crazy little thing in the woods.  very alien in nature. 
 crazy amounts of lichen.

i lost my glove, and then, after some searching, found it.  i have a hard time keeping track of things in general, and finding things is a simple pleasure in my life.  a complete waste of energy and time.

 awesome sandwich while sitting under a tree. 

so, our god son turned 2 a couple of weeks ago.  we got him a motorcycle that turns on revs, brakes, honks, lights up and shakes.  pretty awesome. 
we got him the toy because he is pretty obsessed with my bike; he carried around my keys most of the night



eleftheria walked around with him as he took child view pics of the action. 
the aftermath in the play-room

my mind has been in kind of a weird place recently, so i thought that i would drop a post of some of the things that are making me happy these days.