Hairy Beast

Waking up on a cold dark morning on Monday was really difficult. It's because we came back from Athens completely spoiled. We ate whatever we felt like eating, whenever we felt like it, slept in past noon, stayed up late watch movies, and during the day we got to see breathtaking sights around Athens.

Kendrick had a harder time handling the 6am alarm on Monday. I could tell right away when he sleepily turned the alarm off, rolled over and went right on sleeping. He didn't move a muscle when I got up to take a shower. Thinking him to be curled up in bed, I came back to the bedroom after my shower and tried to navigate around the bed in the dark. When I elbow brushed against something, I turned my ill adjusted eyes and beheld an upright, dark *thing* standing right next to me. That *thing* turned out to be a groggy Kendrick who was standing in the dark rubbing his eyes. My yelp startled him more than than he would admit but he covered it up with some grumpy reproofs.

Luckily, our visitor from Canada, Therese, who was sleeping in the guest room, was relatively undisturbed. She said she heard some noise, realized it had nothing to do with her needing to be awake, and went right back to sleep. It's nice to be on vacation!!

Every morning this past week has been pretty hard on us, and it took several days before we re-adjusted to the toll of full time work. I can't wait for Christmas holidays!