Summer Journal 2012, September 3

Count down time.  Yesterday Katerina and Stellios Foras brought us spanikopita as a Sunday morning treat.   I showed Katerina the book Julie Bailey gave us years ago with beautiful photographs from America.  Stell felt we should have a tsiparo before they departed.  Actually he thought he was pouring us an ouzo, but when we took our first sips, we realized it was the white lightening.  Everyone got pretty animated!  Today we are cleaning and doing all kinds of last minute chores.  Picking up the car title, which is ready, Stell will probably go to the police station with Stellios to get a notarized paper giving him legal authority to manage the property.  Tonight Kyros and Petra should be here from Frankfurt, so we will at least get to see them a few hours this summer.
We know that Melissa (who stayed with us when she was 14 (7 years ago) had an accident in her medical school training and cut off the end of one of her little fingers.  It has been reattached, but they don't know if the nail will grow back.   She has returned to Pecs in Hungary where she studies to be a dermatologist.  Her aunt is a dermatologist, so I think she is planning on working in her office when she is back in Frankfurt.  Her older brother Thomas is studying architecture and has moved back to Frankfurt in an apartment with a friend.  We will find out about Nicos, the younger brother tonight, when we are with his parents.  I think this is his last year of high school.

Here I am with Katerina yesterday morning and Stell with Foras (aka Reuters):

 

By the way, Katerina's spanikopita was superior.  Other news:  Stell and I are tied at cards, two to two.  Perhaps we will play the final match before we depart.