Successful departure!

Hello, greetings from the first leg of our journey to Greece, the windy city of Chicago, Illinois! Rather than sprinting with a very short, impossible 40-minute connection in Chicago for our connection to Munich,and then on to Athens, Greece, we opted for an earlier flight to Chicago. We now have about a 5-hour wait for our next flight.......hmmm...I wonder how much I can blog between now and then, lol! Just kidding, I'll spare everyone, because I think I am going to have fun with this. I've never blogged before, but seeing as this trip to Greece is an incredible dream come true for me, I took up Stacie's challenge when she texted me today and had sent me the link for setting up my blog. It's easy and really only did take 5 minutes, thanks, Stacie!! I now have one other mission, and that's to find Chicago-style deep dish pizza in this huge airport! We are limited to terminal 1 so as not to have to go thru screening again, Ryan, I'll send you a text complete with photo of said pizza when my mission is accomplished. Otherwise, we'll just have to have a trip to Chicago and do some true pizza test tasting, all through the city, wouldn't that be grand??

For those of you not familiar with our Greek itinerary, we shall be emarking on a Greek Island Hopper package with one night in Athens, three nights in Mykonos, three nights in Santorini, and back to Athens for a night. We shall be travelling between islands via high speed hydrofoil ferries. From what I've read, they are more spacious and more comfortable than flying between the islands. Getting any details on ferry departure times has been impossible - we are evidently to be greeted at the airport as part of our travel package by an unknown individual with the sign 'Tour Greece', who will drive us to our Athens hotel and give us the details on the ferry crossings. That is of course if the ferries are not on strike, something Greece is famous for now and again, as are the ruins, museums, etc. The advice I've gotten is if you get somewhere and it's open, you'd better go today, because it may not be open tomorrow. We're going to go with the flow (guess I'd better not say that with the recent Iceland volcanic eruption!), but I've decided that it's not going to erupt again, at least not for another 200 years or so.

Welcome to my first blog, please feel free to leave any comments or feedback.

Wish we could bring you all with us!

Love, Sylvie and Bob