Two Teachers Travel To Crete

Going into this day I sang "this is the day that never ends....it will go on and on my friend!!" Lambchop anyone?! What was that show??? After dinner the night before we still had to pack, so we didn't get to sleep until about midnight, Greece time. We woke up at 4:45 am. Boarded the short flight to Athens at 6:15 and landed at 7. by 7:15am we were in our private taxi car with our driver, Spiros. George's Taxi Tour was the company we hired for this day tour and we are so thrilled that we did. Spiros spoke English and took us to all of the must see spots in the time we had.  Here are a whole bunch of photos from our day. Make sure to scroll all the way down!  A summer camp of students walking down the street:  The Stadium: We returned to the airport at 2:30pm and boarded our long flight to New York at 5:30pm, still Greece time. Then we flew for 10 hours! I only slept for about 2 hours on the pla

Before I even start typing, I'll be honest. Today is July 2. So our last two days of our wonderful learning experience will be typed as truly in the past as they are now just memories, but memories that will be with us for always. Tuesday was our last full day and our last day on Crete. We booked a tour, but nothing like the Samaria Gorge. It was called Gramvousa and Balos Lagoon. There was a photo I found when I first googled Crete and I needed to find the location and take the picture myself. How did I do? Googled photo: My photo: Needless to say, we were definitely in paradise for the day. Our day started by being picked up at 8:30 by another large charter bus. I had already checked out our route so I knew that we were not going to be climbing any mountains or taking any sharp turns over cliffs. However, we were the first two on the bus which meant we had to go along for the ride to fill the bus with other excited lagoon-goers. Cue TCW. One thing that we