MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

This is our Christmas Tree and our Santa, he actually flies but the batteries are dead so we will post a video when we get new ones. We miss and love you all and hope that you all have a great holiday.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Annie and Shawn

Olive Oil Plant Trip

Hi Everyone!
We went on a tour of an Olive Oil Plant last week and it was a lot of fun. We got to see the growers bring their olives in and then watch them go through the processing maching and come out olive oil! We even got to eat fresh olive oil on bread! It was a long day, but we got to drive up into the mountains and to a lot of places that we hadn't been before. We had a lot of fun. There are a lot of pictures so I have put them on our photobucket account so go look there for more.

THE BEACH

Yesterday we went to the beach down the road and played around. It was a little windy but overall the weather was very nice. The waves were coming in strong and they were a lot of fun to watch. This is a video that we took of them. If you look closely you can see were the coral drops off by the different colors of water. We hope that you enjoy.

This is Shawn with little kitty Diesel. Someone down at the Harbor doused this kitty in diesel fuel. Rhonda, the lady we are staying with, brought it home. We gave it a bath and we were feeding it and just trying to make it better. Shawn loved it (this is the guy that hates cats) he held it most of the time that it was with us. Sadly it died after two days. It was really sad.

Chania

We got another view of Crete yesterday when we went into downtown Chania. We live in a small town near the beach and it is relatively quite here so it was fun to get to see a large city. The drive is about 15 minutes from where we live and it was a beautiful drive along the sea. The streets are just as narrow as the small town that we live in but there is a lot more traffic!
We walked out to the Chania Lighthouse in the Harbor. It is very old and you can see the different layers from different years and rulers. There were a lot of people fishing off the old steps. Inside the Harbor there are a lot of little fishing boats, most are so small we wonder how they get out to sea.
We then walked around and looked at the shops. They have everything you could want. There is even a place call leather way with nothing but leather shops. We also went to the market were they have fresh fish of all kinds out and fresh veggies and fruits.
You will all love this, we found a 1 Euro store!! Yes you read it right a 1 Euro store. It was great, we got a lot of Christmas decorations. Shawn will soon be surrounded by Christmas! He coffee cup was even changed out to Santa and a Christmas tree!
We had a great day, filled with a lot of walking but it was worth it. All the pictures in the slide show below are from the day.

Chania Lighthouse