The Last Sunday

Today is our last Sunday on Astypalaia... its so sad! So we are trying to revisit lots of our favorite things today, including hot chocolate with baileys and waffles and baklava.

Anyway, yesterday we worked a 3/4 day in the lab to prep for the open house. We had screen-a-palooza outside with nearly 1/3 of the school outside sieving their soil looking for bones. This is proof we do actually work hard:

Us working hard

Sieving is funny apparently!

Yesterday was the last saturday afternoon walk home - usually we laugh the whole way due to sleep deprivation and excitement for our day off. We paused up at the top of the hill to take some photos of the port to document our last saturday walk home. The we stopped in at the bakery of awesomeness for some honey-pastry-phyllo-epic-raisin-deliciousness treats (I have no idea what they are ever called. I just point at things and say One, parakalo!!!)

Note the super intense photographer face in the background :-)

Yummo.

Last night was the open house up at the lab, which was fun. A good number of people showed up - around 50 - from the island as well as tourists. They walked through the lab and looked at our various stations, asking questions. Unfortunately my workstation was a bit boring yesterday, but it was still nice knowing people care about the work we are doing up in our little slice of heaven overlooking the Agean sea.

After the open house we went for pitas (amazing food!) and then beers at the cafe in the town square. Afterwards we migrated to Archipelago - our favorite place ever! for hot chocolate and spicy pepper corn chocolate cake. Ill try to take some photos of the cafe tonight as we are going back to show off how amazing it is there. Then we ended our evening at 2am after some beach-beers and after Emily went for a night swim.

Emily doing her happy-food dance

Gen is so excited she is flexing her arms and the veins in her neck are sticking out.... ha!

This morning Em, Gen and I went down into the harbor in Chora for breakfast. I had a delicious omelette with veggies and ham, Gen had bacon and eggs and Emily had this amazing waffle covered in greek yogurt, fruit, walnuts, and honey. Amazing.

Tomorrow is the last Monday. And then the last Tuesday. And then the last day, ever. Boo.