Switzerland is Home Sweet Home. The things I am glad to get back to are: fresh changes of clothing, drinking water from the tap, not having humid dampness creep into all my clothing and paying with a debit card.
Over the weekend we learned about how the shipwreck was more serious than we realized. On Thursday night we arrived safe and sound in our hotel, and we thought everyone else did too. We actually knew we were the luckiest ones out of the bunch. We were one of the only couples that had hotel arrangements on Santorini, and we were probably the only travelers that had our luggage already. We just didn’t realize how lucky we were. The next day we found out that the ship had completely sunk. Even today it is still sitting in over 300 feet of water. Just hearing that was enough to make me sick. I didn’t realize that we were in a sinking ship! I thought it was just a temporary problem that would be fixed. I was also surprised to learn that the Sea Diamond wasn’t fixed and ready to go the next morning! But then the next day the news got even worse: two of the passengers are still unaccounted for. I had already been stressing about all the repercussions and consequences of the ship sinking and people losing all their belongings. I didn’t even take into account that people were losing something much more important than that, and in such an incredibly terrifying way. It’s been really hard not to think about it.
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I can’t believe the ship sunk. I didn’t even know ships still sunk. What is this the 1700’s? That would freak me out, and from the looks of your pictures it looks like you guys were in quite the panic. Chad did a pretty good job of trying to look calm, but if you look closely you can see terror.
I wish I could say I survived a shipwreck. Chad, you are indeed, the man.
Tanner’s been bored with his weekly current event assignment this year at school…As his mom and teacher, I’ve been pushing him each week to get one…a lot of my students used the sinking ship for their current event but ONLY Tanner was able to say he had relatives on the boat! Thanks for going to so much trouble to help Tanner with his school assignment! Now if you could only help him with multiplying mixed numbers with unlike denominators!
What an adventure!
April 9, 2007 @ 8:38 am
I am so glad to see you guys back on line. Though I felt peacefull the whole time….To know you are comfortable, safe, and doing well is a relief. “there’s no place like home” no matter where it may be.
Love to you both,
Tara