Announcement!

I figured I better not make you wait any longer for this announcement I teased you with in my last post. I don't think I can handle anymore threatening emails! Just kidding, there weren't any threatening messages...just a little verbal abuse and some name calling, no big deal. But I fully admit I had it coming.

Before I tell you what's up, first I want to share with you some interesting statistics. I did actually get a lot of messages about this, and everyone who wrote to me had a guess as to what this announcement may be. 

Here are your guesses and the percentage of how often that guess occurred:

"Are you pregnant again?!".......100% 

Seriously, 100% of you who wrote to me about this think that I'm about to tell you I'm pregnant again.

Here's another statistic:

YOU WERE ALL 100% WRONG! 

But good try, better luck next time!

No, I am NOT pregnant again! Sure I might still wear the maternity jeans every now and then but that does not mean I'm growing baby #2....it's simply because I still have a rather Kardashian-esque booty. That's all! But I have to say, I did find it pretty funny you all thought the same thing.

So here is the announcement that shockingly, none of you guessed:

WE'RE COMING TO CANADA!!!!!!

Wooooooo hoooooooo!!!!!! There isn't enough room on this page for the number of exclamation marks needed after that 'Woo hoo', that's how excited I am!

Before I get too carried away, we don't have all of the details worked out just yet, but here is what we DO know:

• Sometime between mid October and mid November Eleni and I will be coming home to stay with my parents until probably sometime in April
• Why? Because I have a massive student loan payment I have to pay every month, and considering this is a summer holiday destination, it's not that easy to make the payments during the winter months when we don't have any tourists....SO the bottom line is that I need a job and there just aren't any winter jobs for me around here that would cover that payment

So at this point, that is all we know for sure. We're hoping that Antonis can come as well but we'll have to talk about what's going to happen with the restaurant over the winter....should we get someone else to come in and work for him? Could Lefteris and their parents handle it by themselves? Should we just save our butts off this summer so we can pay 5 or 6 months of rent and then close the place until next season? Maybe Lefteris will want to come with us and find a job too? Maybe none of these ideas will work and Antonis will have to stay here while we go to Canada? We don't know. But we DO know that Eleni and I will be there when the tourist season ends this year and we'll come back to Greece to get things ready for the beginning of the next season. And that will likely mean November to April, but we'll have to see how the season goes...maybe it will end earlier or later than usual, we don't know yet...and it also depends on when Greek Easter is next year because we'll need to be back here in time for that. 

So no, the news isn't quite as big as announcing a pregnancy but did I still manage to shock you? Are you excited????? I'm excited! Well, I'm not going to be that excited if Antonis can't come with us but I'm sure we'll figure something out, so for now I'm pretty excited!! I can't wait to introduce Eleni to everyone! And she can't wait to meet you!

I'll be looking for part-time work so please keep your ears and eyes open and let me know if you hear of anything. I need to stay on the island because I want my Mom to take care of Eleni while I'm working, but since I know I'm only going to be there for about 6 months I'm not going to be too picky about what job I take. Ideally I'd like to get a couple of contracts to work with children with autism or other special needs, but usually that requires a full year commitment which I definitely won't be able to do. But you never know, something might work out with that which would be great. Otherwise, I've always loved working at gyms. And I don't like to brag but I'm kind of a legend in the waitressing scene....

Anyway, that's what's going on and I'll keep you all updated as decisions and plans progress!

Just a quick update about Eleni......I think she's decided that crawling isn't good enough for her because she's been spending most of her time pulling herself up to standing on EVERYTHING! She's also started babbling a lot. Her first one was "Dadadadadadada" and now it's "Baba!Baba!Baba!" so it seems as though after everything I do for her, Baba is her favourite parent. I'm not worried about it though....I'm pretty sure I'm going to be way better at playing Barbies than he is so I still have a chance at first place yet!

Here's a few photos from yesterday. Eleni and I went to the restaurant in the afternoon to visit Baba. She also met a horse for the first time yesterday but since I have a pretty intense (and irrational) phobia of horses, I was more focused on not being trampled, kicked or bitten then on taking pictures at that moment....but here's a few that Antonis and I took from the safety of inside the restaurant, far away from any giant, man-eating Clydesdales

Feeding time! 

I didn't know I was in the picture so I'm not looking particularly happy here, but I really was! 

I'm also not wearing any make-up so I hope I don't scare any of you!

Multitasking! Eating and trying to steal the camera away from Baba

Now we're both totally oblivious to Baba's photoshoot

Can I have it please? I promise I won't chew or drool on it!

Yiayia and Papous bought Eleni a walker last week...these are actually banned in Canada and you can't buy them anywhere because of how dangerous they are so I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. 

But she's not very good at it yet anyway and there weren't any stairs or cliffs around so it seemed to be ok at this particular moment.

Baba, I'm going to try really hard to get over there and when I get there, 

THAT CAMERA IS MINE!

This one's my favourtite!

Our budding chef, helping her Theo Lefteris in the kitchen

Type to you soon!