Greek Tidbits

We learned a few interesting little things on this last vacation. Like “no” in Greek sounds like “okay”, and “yes” in Greek sounds like “nay” (“no” in German). Yeah, we had to correct ourselves a number of times. But there weren’t any huge miscommunications, thank goodness.

Also, another linguistic tidbit, 4 in Greek is tessera. Which is perfect since Tessa was the fourth member of our family! (To which the girls will indignantly say that we forgot to count Eliza, so Tessa is the fifth member of the family, therefore the connection doesn’t work. To which we concede that Tessa is the fourth human. Still works. And we are calling her Tessera now.)

After our last air bnb, we have realized that our interior decorating skills are severely lacking. For instance, we have no home-mortared walls involving skulls,

no blood-splatter-inspired wall paint,

no secret shower watchers,

and no miscellaneous ballistics paraphernalia knick-knacks

We will work on that.

Maybe not.

Finally (we already knew this, but it’s nice to be reminded after being “sedentary” for awhile), we are good adventurers. We travel really well together, our little family. It’s easy for us to fall into our “roles” in our unit now, easier for us parents to let the kids be themselves and free (where it’s safe to do so), and easy to find ways to be interested in wherever we find ourselves.

We are happy on vacation!

We’ve kind of got the travel bug again and are happily planning several trips on the horizon. We are so lucky!