Lizard on the Wall

This lizard was crawling up our wall the other day, cute little guy!

Greece

So I think that it is starting to set in that we are in Greece. Even though Shawn has been here for a while he was never really got to see anything. It is weird not know the language and not being able to understand what is being said around you. I am trying to pick up a few words, not quite enough to hold any sort of converation yet.
I did drive a manual car the other day. It was not bad. I didn't stall it the first time and then Shawn said "you are the only person I've seen who didn't stall it on the first try", then what happens the second time I try to start it? I stall it! Oh well, we drove around for a little bit and I have to say that I did a very good job! I still don't want to drive out in town. The roads here are really really narrow and the people drive very fast. If you go the speed limit they will pass you where ever you are, regardless if it is on a curve or if there is another car comming down the road. It is hard to get used to driving so fast.
There are olive trees all over the place and it is time to pick them. The olive pickers ( I am not sure if that is the technical term) are out with there nets gathering their olives. They don't seem too conserened about the cars on the road because they throw their nets and branches out into the road. It is fun to see.
There are a lot of great things to see here. For example, today I saw the landlord mow the lawn in a 3 three piece suit!

THE BEACH!

Shawn and I went for a walk down to the beach, which is about a block away. The weather here is so nice, in the 60s most of the time. It does get cold at night though. The beach is great, there are fishing boats tied up on a make shift dock and even though it is cold there was a person swimming in the water (nude I might add). The dog that Shawn is petting followed us on our walk for over an hour. We named her "pup". The lady that we live with said that a lot of the houses around here are summer vacation homes and the people feed the stray dogs when they are here but then in the winter they are left on there own. The road that we live on is not very busy and there are a lot of cute houses around. We have noticed that a lot of the houses are really nice but their lawns not kept up at all. All of the house have gates, which is nice, but loud.

This is our house. It has a variety of trees in the front yard that hides the house from the busy street out on front. The little add on to the house is our room on the 2nd floor. It is nice and cozy. This house doesnt show it, but most greek houses have rebar coming from the roof so that they dont have to pay property taxes because the house is not "complete".

This is some of the Views from our house in Stavros. It is a very beautiful here. There are olive trees all over and Geep (goat/sheep mix) everywhere. There is no zoning here so commercial, residential and farming all mixed together. We are a block a way from the beach right below the mountains in the picture on the left. You would all love it here.

I AM HERE! I had a pretty good flight that lasted 31 hours. I am glad to finally be here. This is the picture of our beautiful car in front of our house. It is so cute!

Our Favorite Wedding Photo!!

We are new at this!

Hey everyone! I am headed to Crete tomorrow and I am really excited, I cannot wait to see Shawn! I will miss all of you and I know Shawn misses you all too. I will post more to this once we figure out how to work it.
Annie