All About Me

There was much shopping to be done for the name day feast. Dad, the girls and I set out for Hora at around 9 am. We stopped by the baker and bought several fresh loaves of bread. Then we went to the supermarket where we bought yoghurt to make tzatziki, beers, wines, straggalia and other dry nuts for the raki and various other items necessary. We also stopped by Cash and Carry Palamaris and bought 22 wine glasses and 22 water glasses and 12 raki glasses. Then we stopped by the zaharoplasteio (the sweet shop).

There are various zaharoplasteia in Hora. Mesklies is the most famous. Noufara is another good one. But we went to Halari, which is a brand new one at the top of the hill. The workshop could be seen from the windows in the back of the store and there were many people at work making the scrumptious confections that can be bought in the front end of the store. We asked the owner to give us a kilo and a half of an assortment of chocolates. All of them are individually wrapped. Some have nuts on them, some are chocolate on chocolate but all are different sizes and shapes. She gave Faviana a sweet to have now and we left to go back to the village.

By this time it was around noon. Pippino came over soon after we got home to fix the tiles in the bathroom that had come undone. For several hours he undid half the floor so that he can re-ceramic tile. It was a lot of dust and a lot of banging and a lot of satisfaction afterwards to look at the completed floor. The deep clean of course lasted for hours. Doors, windows, floors, cabinets -- all were swept, washed and polished till they gleamed.

Dad in the meantime started to cook and oh, boy did he cook! Seeming effortless and with no fuss, Dad concocted scrumptuous meals of tzatziki, goat and potatoes in the oven, melitzanosalata, salads, sauteed liver, tasty chicken and a medley of other yummy dishes.

We set up two tables on the front balcony. One becaume the buffet table and the other was a place to set your glasses and plates. Now that we had plenty of glasses to choose from and we needed them all. The first to arrive was Elen at around 5. Then the rest of her family, Nicoletta and parents at around 6. Right after they left, the 'young' crowd came, Favie with his family, Nitsa and her family, Ioanna and her Aunt Eleni. At this point I get the call to come pick up my Uncle John from Kato Kleisma because he hurt his leg and can't make the walk up to Aetofolia. It was an opportune time. Everyone was leaving and I drove down to Kato Kleisma, picked him and Theia Toula up and I was back in five to ten minutes. Then the 'adult' crowd came: Elisabet and her daughters, Laura and Roza, Ameralis, Pippino, Niko and his wife Sofia (Petro's and Basili's parents) and this crowd stayed and ended the night happily after much conversation, food and drink.