There are starving puppies out there!

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Sami and Shadow you better appreciate your Scottsdale life style, getting two full meals a day. We saw this doggy as well as many others on our trek up Pacayo Volcano.

aqui != a key

On our second day, Sony, Kesha, and Rahul tried to eat breakfast without Janki. The waiter said "aqui" and they went looking for a key. Janki's the only one that knows espanol. Rahul is still convinced the waiter misspoke by not adding an 'o' to the end of the word 'here' (here-o).

After breakfast, Rahul's just finished researching stocks (again) and watching Bridge and Prejuidice so we can finally head out about town.

Fantastic Four in Antigua

Hola,

After tearfully leaving Shadow, Sami, Atul, Nancy, SmitaMom, & KanuDad, Rahul and I made it to Guatemala and found Kesha and Sony at the Guatemala airport.



After checking into our hotel,



we spent 45 minutes trying to figure out the conversion rate and withdraw Quetzals, ate breakfast (at 4pm),



walked around town,



almost knocked over all the bikes of a Guatemalan biker gang (Kesha), slept, ate dessert, drank margaritas (2 for 1) and Guatemalan beer, watched HBO, and slept.

It's never too late...

Okay we are starting our blog in the middle of our trip but it's never too late. So far we have been to Athens, Crete, Rhodes, and now we are in Santorini. Our favorite is Crete thus far because it felt the least touristy. Santorini was the most hyped up spot and it is really scenic but so far it feels like Europe's Mexico. We're in Fira the main town and all we've seen are shops all selling the same exact thing! We're hoping Oia (a smaller town) will be a little different.

Alright that's it for now. We'll write more later to catch you guys up on what we've done so far.

Now, we need to go grab breakfast overlooking the Aegean sea. Yeah it's a tough life!

Why are there American Indians in Greece?

We were walking around Old Town Rhodes which is the oldest inhabited medieval fortress in Europe. As we were walking around we saw a big crowd gathered so we stopped to see what was going on. We thought there would be some medieval renactment going on like knights fighting or something. But to our surprise everyone was gathered around to see native Indian Americans! We're not sure what they were doing there in Greece but the crowd was really into it. We wondered if we started using our old IASA show skills and did a mini-Raas Garba if we'd get the same reaction! I'm not sure if the crowd knows this but since there was more than one "native American-Indian" there they could've just been Puerto Ricans dressed up in feathers.

Rahul cheats on Sami

A man and his dog! We all know how much Rahul is infatuated with Sami. By Day 2 of our trip, Rahul got Sami-withdrawal-dementia and started calling me Puppoo and continually talks to me as if I were Sami.

There are many stray dogs throughout Greece. We resist the urge to pet them since we don't know if they might have rabies and other diseases.

In Rhodes we were faced with a challenge and we failed. In the absence of Sami (both of us missing her) we saw a litter of puppies. They were huddled and keeping each other warm with no mother in sight. Temptation pursued as they ran up to us and looked at us with puppy eyes. We couldn't resist.....we cheated on Sami!

In search of hot sauce...

We need to write about Rahul's quest to find spicy food in Greece. Some of our highlights include Rahul's never-ending pursuit to find Sriracha (sp?) sauce in Greece. We haven't yet found it but after the first two days of eating Greek food, on Day 3 we went to McDonald's for lunch. Of course...McDonald's is not spicy, but it does have cheeseburgers! As far as Rahul is concerned McD's IS the U.S. embassy. To top it off, dinner that night was Pizza Hut. We thought for sure we would find crushed red pepper here to satisfy Rahul but all they had was black pepper. On Day 4 after watching Rahul agonize over choosing a place to eat lunch....I caved and we went to McDonald's again for lunch. I posed a question to Rahul.....since when did we become our parents???Eating Pizza Hut on our trips! At one point....Rahul was like "kichri sounds so good right now"....of course with some athanoo (mango pickle)...... We're still searching for spicy food and will keep you posted if we end up eating kichri on our trip.