a placeholder...

...until I can wrangle enough time with Mr. Internet to actually post some of the adventures of the last four days. We've hit Munich and Istanbul so far, and its safe to say that they could not be more different.

We're currently in the airport waiting to leave Istanbul for Santorini, and I'm confident that I've spent plenty of time in Turkey for now. Plenty. This place is odd. I can't decide whether I love or hate the people, the culture or the country. More details to come...

Annnnd I apologize for the insane lack of photos of recent posts, all the pics are locked in my cameras (again, waiting for some quality time with the computer to load 'em). Here's an oldie but goodie to hold you over:

I'm certain I've posted this one before, but it is pretty awesome

***UPDATE***
I wrote the above post at 9am this morning in Istanbul. It is currently 5:45pm in Greece, and we're STILL not on Santorini. Thanks to a delay on Olympic Airlines in Istanbul, we missed our connecting flight in Athens. Pleased. Especially when I asked employees MULTIPLE times if we would make our connecting flight, with each reassuring me that we'd be fine. We literally ran through passport control (seriously, like cutting in front of people...always makes ya feel good) and flying through customs only to arrive upstairs to recheck our bags and find that they'd left without us. Thanks. We're now lucky enough to be "compensated" with 12Euro each for meals and a 6 hour wait. Nice. "Well," we thought, "lets make the best of it and get some stuff done on the internet..." We then discovered that Athens Airport only offers 45 free minutes of internet. Awesome. An awesome way to start the Grecian leg of our tour.

Fingers crossed that things go more smoothly moving forward, eh?!