Yassou Kypros !!! (Hello Cyprus)

So we are getting ready to leave for Cyprus and I'm playing with our new iPad - I take this very cool picture. OK, so my hair is a little messy, otherwise, not bad. Jenée jumps all over me with, "that picture is gross ... don't use that, grow up!"

Okie-Dokie. How's this? I just kill me!

Any hoo, we have a kitty based update for you. Welcome to my world.

And we're off! We are now on our way to Cyprus and Katie is put in her traveling prison. Trust me she's in there.

But it's not very long before she busts out. Fortunately most of the flight attendants like cats.

And she is well disguised at the airport terminal in Amsterdam.

Unfortunately, we were less than 1 hour from Cypress (16 hrs total travel time) that we needed to divert to Athens for a "minor mechanical problem". Place your bets ladies and gentlemen, place your bets! Here we are enjoying our complimentary sandwich at 10 PM (todays special - some kind of meat). Soon after, we were informed we'd be spending the night. Turned out to be a lovely Soffet Hotel about 200 steps from the front door - great breakfast. All in all, not a bad stop.

We arrived Larnaca, Cyprus in the morning and made our way to the apartment we rented for 2-3 weeks while we work on the boat. Here we are at the pool at the Santa Barbara Apartments and the pool is this big!

Katie is very comfortable in her new home.

Well back to work! We get to the Shipyard to begin working on Jungle and we're immediately invited to the boat yard luncheon. Held every day for the workers, it includes a full spread with beer and this special plum brandy. Personally, I think Zippo lighter fluid has a better finish, but what a feast and lovely gesture. One of the main guys there, Antonis, drove us to get a local cell phone and then drove us home. I'm telling you, these Greek Cypriots are the best. But I already new that due to my pal Demetris. We' see him this weekend.

On the way home, we stopped for a beer with Antonis. He was a great help last year and he'll be helping be helping me with some of the bigger jobs. More on all that work stuff later.