A fun new colour app!

At the drive-in

Isn't he handsome

Hands in the air like you just don't care!

Happy Sweden Day!

I Googled 'Funny Sweden' to find a funny illustration of Swedes
on Sweden Day, but instead I think I just found the perfect
Swedish/Canadian home for us!  It's mobile and looks spacious enough.
A couple of pink plastic flamingos in front and we are in business!

Mrs Kravitz checking on Hudson

How to sleep-train your dragon

The downside with traveling with kids is that their routines, and especially their sleep routines, get messed up completely. Com-plete-ly. It is understandable though as they have to sleep in a new bed, new room, etc but it’s a pain in the neck to get the routines back on track once your holiday is over.

So, now that we are back home after our fabby holiday - it’s time to pay the piper! Ethan (who was sleeping through the night by himself in the top bunk) now only wants to sleep in ‘mommy’s bed’ or have someone lay with him until he falls asleep. “No way, José!” – we said and decided to suffer through the '3-night cry-it-out method' that Super Nanny taught us. Gotta love Super Nanny! The same lady gave us the 'Time out'/'Naughty seat' which works like a charm...most of the time.

The method itself is excruciating to go through as kids seem to be born with a 'pull all the heart strings at once-gene', which enables them to scream and cry for England; however we are on the third night now and hopefully we’ll have a routine back after this… until we travel up north in two weeks time! And then it’s back to square one.

Hudson on the other hand is perfectly happy to go sleep by himself whenever and wherever, as long as he gets a few drops of milk in his little tummy.

Mikri Poli Crete, we heart thee!

A perfect holiday is what it was, plain and simple. All inclusive charter trips is definitely the way to travel with children! We had such a good experience with our charter travel company Fritidsresor start to finish and the devil really is in the details when it comes to creating a lasting first impression. When we got off the flight in Greece a smiling group of tour guides greeted us and treated us to a glass of sparkling wine before we got on the transfer bus to our resort.

The resort itself then? Awesome. Our hotel room was right by the pool area and as close to the beach as possible and we were pleasantly surprised when we walked into our room and saw that it was friggin huge and had not one but two separate bedrooms, a bathtub and a great shower and a fridge! ;) It was also serviced 6 out of 7 nights which was really nice.

Our ambitions with this holiday was not to do, do, do but instead to relax and hang out and we had said before we left that it would be more than ok if we didn’t leave the resort at all for the full 7 days. Normally when we travel, we are itching to see and do, but not this time around. This time we just wanted to take it easy. So we did. Our daily routine looked roughly as follows:

Wake up – shower – lather up with sun screen – go for breakfast (pancakes with strawberry jam was a winner!) – take a dip in one of the 4 the pools – snack time with ice cream, toasties and a cold beer - kick a beach ball around for a bit or go to the playground – watch cartoons – lunch time – go to the beach (the beach was fantastic; great sand and shallow water) – go for an afternoon siesta – lather up some more - another dip in the pool and visit to the playground – dinner time! (overload of feta cheese and tzatsiki) – dance time at the Mini Disco – bedtime for the kids – TV-time for the parents. Repeat 6 days in a row.

On the last full day we decided to rent a car and go for our first Harrison-Helin x 4 road trip. We hopped in the car and explored the mountainous south east tip of Crete. We drove through loads of tiny villages, up and down countless mountain roads and dipped our toes in the water at Vai beach.

All in all, a fantastic trip and we’ll def be back to the Greek islands for more!

"What? You've never seen a chocolate
ice cream beard before?"

"Kalimera!"

Sunset over Makrigialos and Petra Bay

Ethan and mommy at sunset

Styler

The Mikri Poli resort

Ethan and daddy having a hoot in the pool

Toes getting dipped in the Libyan Sea at sunset

Our little beach bum

Goddess Shaena

Handsome Hud figured he'd just not wear clothes that day

Our pool area

The Libyan Sea

Ethan was here

Flower growing through a fence by the roadside

Prophet Helias' church

Note in the men's room at Vai beach

Hudson - a happy road tripper

Beautiful view from our car window

A 'Death box' - The Greeks put up these miniature chapels
by the side of the road to commemorate relatives
who have died in car accidents.
Quite a few of them on the mountain roads!

Vai Beach

Breathtaking view from our drive in the mountains

The Green Beach

All inclusive beer - best served
ice cold in a plastic cup by the pool!

Yes, it's a shower

Ethan throwing shapes at the Mini Disco

A walkway between beaches

Cretan mountain goats

Mommy and Ethan in the hotel amphitheatre

Beach Boys? Or Pool Boys?

Ethan mastered play structure climbing whilst on holiday

Flowers planted in old feta cheese and olive oil vats
Doesn't get much more Greek than that!

The Green Beach again

Ethan taking the plunge

Cool beach dude

Bamse likes this

Greek salad, Greek tzatsiki, Greek bread and Greek beer

"'Sup dawg?"

"Look mom what I found in the store!? Can we keep him?"

"Beep beep! We're shopping! Outta the way!"