Day 61: Eat Drink and Be Merry

If there were one refrain I could give form my latest holiday in Greece, this would be it. Eat, Drink and Be Merry. Solomon's words of enjoying the days of my youth while I had them were constantly on my heart this past weekend. I haven't had a holiday as good as this one in a long time. It was a holiday for ample food, great company, breathtaking views, and enough exploration to make one envious of a Life Napoleonic. Aegina, Mykonos, Poros, and Sifnos were the Islands we briefly graced with our presence on this 4 day Easy Cruise, each island having distinct memories of it's own. On Aegina, it was the seaside taverna where friendships were born, on Mykonos it was the windmills, the local waiter on his break who pretended to run off with Kyle's camera, and Paradise Beach and Club where we danced like nobody was watching, on Poros it was the beach and a great little shopping district, and on Sifnos it was the joy riding and finding hidden treasures of the island (who knew Greece was home to an Ostrich and Reindeer?!). I wrote 15 pages in my journal on the airplane rides home. I wrote all the way from the tarmacs of Athens and Thessaloniki to the touchdown in London Town. Sitting on the bike last night, still feeling a little dizzy as if I never left the boat, I wondered how long I would continue living off the high of this great holiday. If anyone would like more detailed stories of my trip, send me an email or a comment and I'll get out my journal and let ya have it! For all you other casual readers, thanks again for your interest, I should be back on track and approaching Dallas by the end of the week.
Cheers,
Scott

New American Standard Bible (©1995)

Ecclesiastes 8:15 So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one's lifetime;

Ecclesiastes 3:13 moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor-- it is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18 Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.