Our Cyprus Vacation

We went on holiday last week to the island of Cyprus.  Cyprus is famous for the birth place of Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love.  It was lovely to get away from Saudi and Ramadan going on here.  Cyprus was a nice island, we didn't know what to expect, never having heard much about it.  Unfortunately we didn't get to tour about at all, we pretty much stuck to the hotel area because of Lily.  

It was great to see people wearing clothes instead of abayas, and to be able to have bacon and sausage, and drink real beer and wine.  Well Greg drank the beer and wine, I had a few sips.  We learnt a lot on this vacation, mostly about traveling with babies.  One, that you spend a lot more time in the hotel room, and two that it isn't as relaxing as you would like because you are always entertaining the baby.  We spent a lot of time at the hotel pool, not a lot of time at the beach, Lily was not very keen on the little waves or the salt water.  Greg thinks she is spoiled from the pool, I told him we would just have to visit the beach here more often to get her used to it.  Lily still napped in the morning and afternoon, when Greg and I would read and play cards on the balcony waiting for her to wake up again.  We walked out of the hotel and ate at local places once a day, which was a nice change of pace.  

One of the nice things about a vacation is coming home, and this was no exception.  We were glad to get back into our beds, and Lily was happy so see her toy boxes and to be able to crawl around and not be corralled as much.  

Lily in her buggy on the way back to the hotel from the beach, she looks a little sunkissed

Chelsi and Greg enjoying the sun.

Chelsi and Lily having some strawberry icecream in the pool.

Lily walking in the baby pool

The view from our hotel.

First trip to the pool

Yesterday we took our first trip to the pool here in our compound.  Lily and I were in the water for about an hour, she had a blast watching the other little kids running and swimming and splashing.  It was very entertaining for us.  I am glad that I brought over the floaty from the states, it was very helpful, and she like it.  I dunked her, and she just came up sputtering like she does, no different from when we had her in the hot tub.  We did a lap around the pool, and she liked that, that is different from the hot tub.  I think that the pool is where we will be spending a lot of afternoons.  Lily loves to stick her face in the water, I think she is trying to drink the water, but she gets a little too much and then she starts to cough, but she does it again!  I hope this is something that she will grow out of.  she likes to be on her tummy and kick around.  She will soon be my little swimmer.

The weather here is turning hot, hovering around the 90's.  Greg insists on having the air on all the time, I don't particularly like the ac, it feels fake somehow.  I have the feeling that I will grow into it though.  

Tonight we are going to go to the Aramco compound, Greg is playing golf over there tomorrow, so tonight he is going to and hit balls.  This is where the nicest golf course is here, maybe I can actually get some pictures taken here to put on the blog.  So far the camera hasn't made it out yet, and I apologize for that, but there really isn't much here to take pictures of, except for Lily!