Written Greek looks to me like a giant math equation. This may sound stupid, but I never really put together that the Greek letters used in engineering are the VERY SAME Greek letters used in...Greek. I can't do it quickly, but I can actually read Greek based on my experience with math. Of course I can't tell what the words mean, so it only gets me so far.

We spent a few days in Athens, then went on a ferry to the island of Santorini. In heading to the Greek isles, all I was really going for was to relive that scene from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants where Lena goes to that island and they have to ride donkeys up stairs along sharp cliffs, with cute white houses all drenched in sunshine. Well, minus the sunshine, Santorini was it! I still need to look up where they actually filmed the movie (and go there in July or something). But still, Santorini was lovely and we spent two days zipping around on an ATV. It was a wonderful time and the sun was out long enough to make some beach time essential.

After two days on Santorini, we took an overnight ferry to Kos. As we were waiting at the ferry terminal, it started hail-storming! And so far in Kos, it has been raining pretty much the whole time. Turns out this is off-season for a reason. Still, one of my favorite parts of Santorini was the fresh smell of all the grass and wildflowers, plus apparently all of the area is absolutely swarming with tourists in the high season (and prices are much higher).

We're off to Turkey tomorrow and are going to try to meet back up with Eve in the first few days. We've also booked our flight to Nepal for April 17. It includes an overnight stop in Dubai, so looks like we may have the added bonus of being able to see Dubai's crazy architecture all lit up...