greek for a day

We were a little reluctant to do the day trip to Greece after reading many reviews about the crowds. But we are so glad we went because we are quickly realizing that this is the time to visit Greece and Turkey. While it is still hot, there is no one here! After boarding our barely 30% full ferry we were off for a short ride across the water. We entered Greece with no problems. They even move families with children through the line up first. Girl is very popular with her blonde hair in these parts. She hates people looking at her or touching her hair, but she doesn't make a big deal of it. Some of the travel blogs we follow have blond children that are having a really hard time in Asia being photographed constantly and touched. (We haven't mentioned this to her yet, although I am thinking her old look of two braids and a hat may be back for that leg!).

something else

We are staying in a village near the sea in Turkey and enjoying our small life of village, beach, pool, market, corner store and repeat. We feel comfortable sending the kids to go gather sticks for a school project. But today we decided that our time is coming to a close here and we needed something else, so we are going to take a ferry to Greece this weekend. In order to buy the cheapest tickets we needed to go to the ferry dock. So we hopped the dolmbus (mini bus) to the next town over to buy them. We seem to have trouble figuring out the cost on the minibus because we don't speak Turkish and we have a GIANT nine-year old. Kids are supposed to be free, but no one seems to understand us. So we paid for three...