Beach lessons

We’ve been in Serifos for a whole week already and I’ve been meaning to post pictures and our activities daily…but having two kids seems to take up the whole entire day in a great way of course. I’m used to having some down time when they’re both napping but here I don’t have my amazing help- Maria and Michelle so I’m usually washing dishes or hanging laundry to dry. I know, I really can’t complain since it’s the first time in over a year I’ve had to do either 🙂

Ok, on to the fun parts. We arrived Friday night and headed right to bed. We were EXHAUSTED! We woke up the next day, Saturday and were ready to head to our beach. We can see it from our veranda so Adam spent all morning staring longingly at it, ready to go. I’m not sure where out mornings go, but with the boys thankfully waking up later here (this means 8 am instead of 5:30 am) we haven’t managed to get out of the house before 10:30.

We had stopped at the supermarket the night before for a few staples and were so happy to have some greek yogurt and honey for breakfast. This guy is addicted to Greek yogurt and ‘henny’. Oh and we also stopped at the bakery for some yummy koulourakia, because that’s what one does in Greece.

Then it was finally time to head to the beach.

The beach is so close to our house you can reach out and touch it. So we decided to walk. We packed up our towels, snacks, water, swimmies, toys, tent and babies and headed down for a relaxing time.

The beach was beautiful. One of the prettiest we’ve ever seen. There was hardly anyone on it. But there was very little shade so we set about building our tent we brought for exactly this. After about 45 minutes we had broken one of the pieces and were no closer to building the tent. I was still carrying Malcolm in the carrier, making it hard for me to help build our tents. Adam wanted to play and go to the water but we were too involved in our tent building and both parents were getting tired and thirsty. We finally gave up, I went and found a tree way off towards the back and Randy took Adam to the water. Adam was a little scared but he was content to play in the water and build sand castles. There was a father nearby with two older kids, they had come to the beach with no towels, no snacks and no tent. In typical Greek fashion, they had brought only their rackets to play. Lesson to be learned, perhaps less is more in Greece.

After getting some sand and sun in we headed back. The little ones took a nap and we made a yummy lunch of Greek salad. I plan to eat all the Greek salad I can possible fit in my mouth. While a huge bag of kalamatas cost 3 euros here, it would cost 30 dollars in Manila and while a box of delicious tomatoes cost 2 euros here it would cost 20 dollars in Manila and not be nearly as tasty. And we get to eat with this view.

After naps we all showered and headed into town for a yummy dinner. We had a salad with the local cheese instead of feta and some yummy cheese and honey balls. Then some fresh fish. Delicious. Day one and I’ve already had three amazing meals.