Hey Baby...

This week I headed over to Cyprus to say 'bon voyage' to the family over there and to talk to katie's belly all week! I spent a few days with Katie and Craig and baby Curtis to be, before they head home in April and it was the perfect vacation. Relaxing, good food, good conversation, good shopping--thank you Greece, and some love to last me till October. Perfection. We hung out alot and made it to the Greek side for some T.G.I.Friday's--a yummy bacon cheeseburger and bacon cheddar fries (get it while you can), but not after a foiled attempt. I am somewhat of an oddity on the island apparently. I'm not totally American because I live in Turkey and I'm not Turkish at all, but I try to be. This earns me no points with the Greek side of the island I might add. It senses when I am trying to broach it's territory. Last time, we made it over there but with some troubles. This trip, Southern Cyprus was good to me, but it took two tries. Who knew that we would drive all the way to Pizza Hut one day for lunch only to discover that it was Green Monday. Who knew? Apparently the entire Greek side of the island! It's a holiday when the Greek Orthadox Church celebrates what they call 'Clean Monday', (the only place it is referred to as 'Green Monday' is Cyprus). It is something akin to an Ash 'Monday' (for them), because their calendar is different and do not celebrate Easter on the same day that we do. One of the ways they celebrate is to fast from meat, dairy products and other foods and to fly kites. Check. We saw many a kite fly-er out on Monday. We were cautious to go out Tuesday afraid of a blue or red Tuesday, but all was well and as katie says, I shopped till I dropped! Thankyou southern side... and craig for hanging out with a book all afternoon at starbucks!

My last day, katie and i headed to the beach for the morning to try and get a farmer's tan before i left. We stumbled upon a brave snorkeler in the icy March waters who shared with us two of his finds. The octopus was slimy and well, I think my face does what I was feeling justice enough without words! look at all that ink that the squid had in him! We were sad that craig didn't come with us, we knew he would have been game for some adventure in the water...but I could barely muster up the courage to hold it for the photo-op!

I had so much fun and I can't wait to meet baby curtis in october. i hope he'll be a şampion baby from the start...curtis' you know what that means...