Patmos Greece

Today was an AWESOME day for our trip! Mine and Nat's husbands are big motorcycle guys and they both had to sell their bikes when they got married 

.I'm now wearing Brandons Harley on my finger :).

So since we feel bad about that we try to do at least one day on every trip on some sort of bike.

Since Patmos is such a small Greek island we decided today was a great day to rent some Vespas!

We woke up just off shore of the Island for an AMAZING view at breakfast and then headed for the tender boats!

We hit up a little scooter shop right off the dock and got the day started early

Here's Joe checkin' out the selection

Jareds wishful thinking of driving his own scooter instead of riding in the car with Mom and Dad and Evie lol 

.Sorry Jay.

. and of course Evie running laps around everyone and winning over the hearts of the natives .

 We drove around to a few beaches and saw most of the Island and then worked our way up the mountain to a really holy site for most churches.

 On the Isle of Patmos there is a grotto at the top of the mountain where it was said that John received the inspiration to write the Book of Revelations. Inside the Grotto was really cool, you couldn't take pictures but they had places in the rock plated in gold where John had supposedly laid his head or nelt to pray. 

  .the Grotto is the domed building on the right.

After that we climbed the mountain a little higher and visited a really beautiful Monastery!

(again, couldn't take pics inside but it was amazing how much detail these people put in their work inside)

These 2 pictures pretty much describe my entire trip with a one year old...

. I tripped over her so many times i'm surprised she lived!.

 After the Monastary we headed back down the mountain to the beach and Jared finally got his ride on the vespa :)

 The beach was great! 

Evie loves to play in the shallow part but, being the Miss Priss that she is with mud, she hated the rocky sand in the shallow end and insisted on being held for the rest of the afternoon.

 We ate lunch right on the beach and then got back on the ship.

That night we went to a "Cinematastic" show on the boat and Evie danced and clapped and spun circles through the entire thing until she crashed ha ha ha

My next blog is on an AMAZING day in Kusadasi Turkey!! 

There are no words to describe this place!

p.s Sorry I don't post a ton of my "photography" from this trip on my family blog. I kind of save the majority of those for posts on my photography blog. I'll be sure to send links when I post those though!

xo, Meg