Crete - Day Ten

Today we have decided to do nothing. No sight seeing, no restaurants in town, no exploring. Today we will sit on the beach, enjoy the sun and marvel over the fact that the sea is actually fairly warm (although this will not convince Jamie to go in).

While we may not have left our hotel, there is no way we could have been bored. We were treated to two obese mothers and 14 of their kids from Germany. Interestingly, many of the children apparently suffered from a serious allergy to clothing. We met a couple from France who were opera singers and could be cajoled into breaking into song if fed enough liquor (specifically Raki). We also observed the bold women over 60 who thought nothing of wearing a tiny bikini. And no, none of them looked nearly as good as Helen Mirren (more like Phyllis Diller). We spent some time talking to the owner of our hotel, Nikos, who wanted to reminisce about his time in New York. Jamie read a book (her sixth) and Seth took a nap on the beach until he turned a little red and was forcibly moved to the shade. We learned the Greek word for asshole and promised to bring it back to the States. If Seth calls you a malaka, just say it right back to him.

We ate at the hotel restaurant for all three meals and managed to eat something different and delicious each time. We watched a beautiful sunset from our hotel room terrace. At dinner, naturally more raki was poured (and drank - not by Jamie) and we saw pictures of the restaurant owner's son (who Jamie called a girl due to his enviably long curly hair). Seth thought the British woman eating with the opera singing French couple was smoking weed when in fact she was rolling her own cigarettes. We watched a couple in their 50s or 60s from the midwest get wasted on raki and talk very loudly to a young couple about their trip to Lisbon. And one of the gentlemen dining on the terrace was the likely twin of Danny Bonaduce's father. The characters sitting at the tables outside late into the new night at dinner could have been characters in a play and it was great fun to observe them. If given enough raki, Seth would've played the role of Joe Namath and Jamie the role of Susie Kolber.