Terra Maris All Inclusive Resort Hersonissos

Yesterday we got up at 5am in order to catch our plane from Santorini. Most of our group was on the same plane , so we said our sleepy good byes. We flew on Aegean Air which has nice new planes. We went to Athens and then basically retraced the short flight by flying to Crete. We staggered into hotel Lato at 10am where we received a special bonus upgrade to the 5th floor executive suite. 2 rooms on the 5th floor with an ...

We had decided to go to Knossos on our last full day (Friday) as it is close to Iraklio where Chris and Milly will fly from on Friday night. But it made sense to take the last day in a more leisurely fashion and visit the Minoan palace of Knossos on Thursday. So we did.

After a brisk drive through the usual nightmare traffic and narrow streets, and our usual lunch, this time just across the road from the palace, we entered the grounds. The entry fee is €6 ...

... flights) Where on earth would we find the patience to wait for 5 hours?? For comfort we recaived a £4.- voucher which we later spend on some lovely Marks & Spencer's salads & chocolate mouse =p. Although feeling rather stiff sitting on the wooden bench the time went quite fast while we where reading. (me Portraits by Cynthia Freeman, Eve 'Closer') and doing ...

... and doing nothing!

I can't believe I only have 2 ngihts left here! The time is coming so fast!!!! Dave is thinking about staying another week! ahha this place it is just like the Hotel California song you can check out but you can never leave! He is already planning on coming back next August and was devising a plan so that I could meet him here for 2 weeks haha! I am excited to go back to Athens and go ...

... do you ahev a boyfriend- I said maybe?? haha ok so during this time Dave was joking well what about the baby (ok for those of you who do not have a sense of humor or do not believe in abortion discontinue reading!) so I said well I am not sure what to do (by the way NOT pregnant just having a really sick sick conversation/joke/ freaking people out...) I said maybe the old fashion way the punch in the stomach he suggested the coat hanger.. just carrying on and on and I ...

... in two snaps he has his flight booked will be here on sat night!!!! WOOHOOOOO

SO everyone here is all really excited and very supportive "we can't WAIT to meet him!!!" as I ahve told many crazy Dave stories and they ahev all been creepin on my face book seeing him in what they thought was MY pink Pjs but after I explained NO they are his they obviously asked .. "is he gay" i laugh NOPE although sometiems he plays it! I told them about how I put my picture of ...

AGHHH I AM FINALLY HERERERERREREREEEEE!!! So happy! So it was a LONGGG 46 hours! let me stress LONG as in 3 days no shower had I been able to shower everyday and look half decent I couldn't ahve cared less but with my greasy hair my face with no makeup the SAME CLOTHES ON me thinking oh god is that smell me?? (of course it was NOT ahha or at least I HOPE not!!!)

I AM HERE my FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH! back at the hostel I first made REAL friends ...

We didn't have much time here but my wife, one of my sisters and my brother-in-law walked around the town square and did a little shopping. There was a jazz exhibit at a local church that we checked out. They had some wonderful pictures of Louie Armstrong, Miles Davis and other icons of the jazz world. One of my nephews went to the beach and his mom, brother and his fiancé took a tour. My two ...

... sunbathers. So, in order to avoid further embarrassment they started focusing on different sea shells they saw on the beach while quickly making their way out of the area and back down the beach to where we were sitting. Since this discovery, we have learned that European vacationers have quite an affinity for nude sunbathing in many areas throughout the Greek islands. Normally, they keep to themselves and cluster in remote corners of public beaches.

After ...

Through a series of unfortunate events, this is the sole remaining picture of our magical day in Crete. In all of my genius I deleted the Crete and Turkey photos by accident and boy was that ever a sad day. Of course the first thing I did after getting home from the cruise was upload the Sbux series to Facebook, so now the Starbucks photo is the only one left of Crete :(