Friday, July 6, 2007

Sicker than a dog in Santorini

I believe we left you last in the city of Rome. We weren't sure we were going to make it to Greece after a long wait for our flight in the airport. We were boarded onto a bus to be taxied out to the plane and then brought back into the airport to wait for another half hour. People around us were getting pretty colorful and there was no order, which seems like an accurate way to descibe Italy. The descent on our flight into Greece had us saying our prayers. Our pilot took a very sharp angle down and we weren't sure we were going to enjoy the sunsets on Santorini, but luckily we came to a safe landing. After an evening of sleeping, or in Davids case not sleeping in the Athens Airport we boarded a plane to Santorini. We arrived at our hotel to find that they had painted the steps leading to the reception area!! It was 7:00 am and no one was there yet. We were so tired we sacked out on the stairs in front of the hotel. Not one of our finer moments!!! We had breakfast at the hotel and ventured out into the town of Fira for a couple hours until our room was ready and took a delicious nap. We spent most of the next day on the beach, and David was able to make it around the island dodging scooters and tour buses in our rental car. The next day we went on a boat ride out to the volcanic island. We met some great people from North Carolina and ended up hanging out with them the whole day. This morning David woke up feeling wretched with stuff comming out both ends. After several hours of not being able to keep anything down we headed to the hospital to try and get him an IV. The clinic on the island of Santorini is a scary sight!! Luckily our hotel manager dropped us off and was able to urge the people in emergency to help us out. After nearly passing out from dehydration David got an IV and some pain medication and with several hours of resting we were sent on our way. Apparently there is a reason our gyros were $1.80. David's plan to save us money on food ended up costing us $67 Euros, which was supprisingly affordable. We have lots of fun stories from our time in the clinic to share. Thankfully he is feeling lots better, and with any luck we will be able to spend our last day on the island without too much more excitement. I am not sure I can handle anymore. We are looking forward to getting home and being in our house with our cute dog. The island is full of stray dogs, which make us miss Toby even more. I pet one the other day and realized they don't see a good bath very often. Now I just admire them from a distance!! Just a couple more days and our adventure is over!!!

6 comments:

Lois said...

How are things goning since this e-mail I hope you are back to having lots of fun. David you take care and drink lots of water, sorry to hear you got sick, at least you could lay around on the beach.
I can't wait to see all your photos and hear about every thing.
Love Mom

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OregonActivist said...

Hi Guys! This is Tyler. Your house and plants and lawn are all fine. Things have been going fine back here at home. Although yesterday we had some very bad events. Like I said, your house is fine, but the two houses on the corner of Baines and Dorsey burned down yesterday evening. (the blue one on the corner of Baines and Dorsey, and the one next to it behind Matt and Molly's house). We don't know what started it yet, but we saw it just after if got going. Me, one of the owners and some others tried to put it out, but were only able to keep it from spreading accross the lawns. So those two houses got burned pretty bad. The fire department showed up shortly and started putting it out, but by then it was too late. It was on the Portland news and people were running up and down our street till about 10:00 last night. All the people were fine, maybe one cat was lost, I don't know about that for sure. We can tell you more when you get home. But everything is fine down at your place.

OregonActivist said...

http://www.kptv.com/video/13644757/index.html

Here are some news clips

OregonActivist said...

http://www.katu.com/news/8389532.html

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