April 29, 2000

Yesterday morning John was supposed to call and wake us up but he didn't like I expected. So we woke up by the alarm clock game. We got ready and cleaned and did things calmly. Then we went to the bus station and met up with the girls. There was crazy traffic leaving Athens. It took us 4 hours to get to Rio. I was ok with the whole thing but I do not think mom was having too much fun. We got to Filipiada at 4 so it was not too bad. It was so cute when mom saw grandma. They were both crying. We sat and ate some really good fasting food. Then we went up to Aunt Irene. Elena is not the cutest baby and she is really huge. Pat and Dina cleaning intestivnes. It was quite appetizing. There were shits coming out of everywhere. We sat there for a while and then came down to get ready for church. The liturgy was very nice. I saw a lot of the family outside. It was a whole bunch of those uncomfortable hellps. Then we went and sat at Aunt Irene's again until it was time to go to the bar. We sat in the square because we had to wait for the guy that drove Babs to the village to come. He seemed nice and looked like Leo. We went to the bar. Matt and Larry were there. Angela wanted to leave even though I did not want to. Alex walked us down and we talked. Meanwhile, I ate a bagel and almost half a loaf of bread. But I think this visit is going to be good. Alex was very understanding and I know she loves me and is going to stand by me. She is a good role model. I talked to Aunt Irene too. Generally, people are seeing me happy and they are relaxing. I am just afraid that I am going to have too much fun that I am not going to want to leave. I know for sure I don't want to go back to Athens. Anyway. This morning, I got up and went to church for communions. So I am going to get ready to start making visits.