Greece In July

We are back in Cambridge for a day after coming home from Greece yesterday. So we are washing clothes, repacking, then leaving for Venice tomorrow. As you will see from the pictures, my parents are over here. Jason's parents come on Friday for his graduation ceremony. We are busy trying to fit in as much traveling as we can before we go back to Canada. I'm really looking forward to seeing Venice.

We only have a little over a week before we fly back to Canada and so far we haven't done any packing or organizing. We have lots of stuff to get rid of because we can only take 20kgs each on the plane. We may have to buy new wardrobes when we get back to Canada (I wouldn't mind...)

Here's some pictures of Greece.
This one is of the big storm that arrived the moment we checked into our hotel. It was awesome, the thunder echoed off the surround hills and mountains. There was an amazing downpour with lightening. And we thought Greece was going to be all sun...



This is a picture of Jason and I in front of a Venetian fortress in Nafplio's harbour.




This was the view from a restaurant we ate at one night.





Us in Athens at the Acropolis




My dad dressed up... Ha, just kidding. This is a guard in Athens.




Ancient theatre at Delphi




The family at Delphi



A day at the beach (the back on Jason and my mom's head)



The view from our hotel at night during the full moon.

Midsummers In Sweden

Well, life is really hard at the moment. We leave for Greece tomorrow. Two weeks of sun-worshipping and sight-seeing...
My parents are arriving in Cambridge this morning after traveling in the northern part of England and Scotland.

Last weekend, we took a quick trip to Sweden to see my good friend Carin and her husband Marcus. It had been a year exactly since we had seen them last. We arrived in the midst of Midsummer's celebrations. Celebrations include: dancing around the Maypole (the pole being some sort of fertility symbol from the days of paganism), BBQs, wreaths of flowers, and just generally being out in the sunshine (although, as always the case with holiday days, Midsummer's day normally sees some rain as well).

On Saturday, we spend the day in Stockholm. We watched the Sweden/Germany football match with some of Carin and Marcus' friends. Sweden lost, so there was about an hour of depressive moods in the room. After, we went to a park near the ocean and had a BBQ.






Sunday, we went to Carin's church, where she is a pastor. They had a visiting choir from the USA. A gospel choir from the South, so there was a lot of fun and clapping. The sermon was in English, which was a bonus. After church, we went to Uppsala, a university town where they also have huge burial mounds dating back to the 6th century. The church was built over pagan remains and was the site for the baptisms of Swedish kings.

We had a great time in Sweden, as usual. Hmmm, I definitely could live in Sweden. It's such a beautiful place.