December 2010

We spent another Christmas apart as a family which is really hard. Dad had to go back to Greece for almost all of December to tend to his mother and a bunch of family business tasks that needed to be done. Kids had school up until December 18 and instead of dragging them on to Greece for less than 2 weeks they all instead went to New Jersey to their uncle's house and had a "heavenly" time (as they said) playing with a bunch of cousins for the holidays.

Dad of course went to the Larisa AEL soccer team's new stadium which is a 5-10 minute short walk from the family home. It is the best stadium in Greece. Unfortunately, the team is on a gigantic losing streak and it looks like it will be releagated to the B Division...which is a MAJOR bummer and an unbelievable turn of events from the expectations for this year. Clearly this has been the season from hell!!





Grandma is doing fine, health is decent and emotionally she is doing better and better after the loss of Grandpa in July of 2009. She is a trooper!

On the way back I made a one night stop in Athens (photo is from the Athens Hilton) and got to see my old roommate at EMU, Socrates. Hard to believe it has been 18 years since we graduated!


These two pics are in the Athens subway...just a very cool moving picture of birds...I should have made a movie but my darn camera was not cooperating at the time!



This is a picture from outside our house in Ann Arbor and it was taken around December 19 when Mommy and the kids were on their way to the airport for their flight to New York's La Guardia airport.


They had a great time of course.




With old friend KC and her daughter Annie





Kids went skiing a lot!!
















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Christmas dinner at uncle's house:
















Simon observing:

and can't help himself but attack!!



















Kostas with a toast??



oh oh Sophia on her modeling kick once again:






More skiing!