Kavala, you are beautiful....

I'm sitting here posting from a beautiful hotel in the seaside town of Kavala, Greece. Today we visited one of the monasteries in Meteora. Very beautiful. Then we drove all afternoon to this town. Tomorrow we go to visit the Biblical town of Phillipi, and then we cross the border to Turkey. Next week we will spend in Turkey, then off to Israel for a week, and then back to Turkey for a week. Days of driving go by slow (seeing as I'm not working as much). Not much to shoot through the glass window of a moving tour bus. XD

Thanks Kurt for the good ideas about the blogging. I will take that to heart, though fortunately tonight we have free wireless internet. Mom, the weather has been excellent. Temperatures have been in the high 70s-low80s and sunshine throughout. We had a hint of rain this morning at the monastery, but we were just leaving, and we were at a high altitude as well.

An observation I made when in Athens. The mindset of the Greeks is very different from Americans. We went to a streetside cafe one day, and even though they charged for the bottled mineral water, the waiter started pouring it in all our glasses. As if it was expected for us to buy it. We then had a streetside ACCORDION player (that's right, God's instrument) come up to our tables and play a few songs for us. Then he went to each table and asked us for money. This idea of preemptively assuming you will make money is very different from the American "I will serve you when I know there is something in it for me" mentality.

I'm going to try to post some pictures to facebook here in a few minutes, we'll see how that goes.