The Barker’s World

I cannot believe that we have not posted any Christmas pictures. I guess we’ve been too busy playing with all of our new goodies and getting back into the swing of things.

Last Sunday, we rushed out of church and headed down the National Highway here in Crete on our way to Rethymno. Every year the largest Carnival parade on the island is held in this town. The drive was crazy as usual – the norm on the National Highway here – but we made it without [...]

So we are now just 20 days away from Christmas and still living in a hotel. We gave the house hunt our best shot… and lost! We found the perfect house last week through a realtor and knew it was THE ONE. Then the next day someone decided to buy it! Go figure! The house [...]

One of the interesting things about living in a different country is finding out about all the different holidays that get celebrated where you are.  Well, today they are celebrating Sankt Nikolaus (name sound familiar?).  He is considered to be a pre-Christmas messenger that examines kids’ behavior.  The kids leave a boot outside their door [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again.  I drug everything up from the basement yesterday and we put up the Christmas decorations in the house.  I just love this time of year!

This year we had a church Thanksgiving dinner the Sunday before Thanksgiving.  I cooked 2 turkeys for that dinner and was pretty turkeyed out by the time Thanksgiving Day rolled around.  So, since it was just going to be the 4 of us, I decided I’d take my chances with cooking a duck.  This was [...]

Hey everybody! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We surely did! The boys were pleasantly surprised with what Santa left under the tree. We had a quiet Christmas morning at home. We first read the Christmas story from Tristan’s kids bible, then opened presents. After that, we [...]