The Butter's

Meeting new people is one of the best parts of traveling. While the ecstatic feelings of the nomadic life will fade, new friendships have the potential to last forever.

Sitting on the top deck of our cruise ship I heard the faint whispers of the table over from us speaking in English. After gawking at the family’s bloody mary’s for five minutes I decided to make the first move and ask where they were from. They were the Butter’s, a family of four with a 16-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son. After hours of getting to know each other on what seamed to be a cruise ship driving through a tsunami the four of us girls fell in love with “the fam”. By the end of our three-island cruise, we weren’t bonded with any specific member of the fam, rather the entire family as a whole. The way they spoke to one another and the stories they told made it easy for all four of us to relate to with our families at home and inevitably fall in love with them. After the cruise the fam was our number one topic of conversation. They were all just so nice. Two days later while we were eating a meal they ran into us and invited us to their rooftop pool. Naturally, we went as soon as we were done eating. There we enjoyed banana strawberry daiquiris and margaritas. After some time all of you tummies were rumbling so the Butter’s asked us if we wanted to join them for an all American dinner at the Hard Rock Café. Once again naturally we accepted the invitation. After stuffing our faces so much that we could barley move we went back to the roof top pool at the Marriot where we watched the 12am Easter fireworks go off all over Athens. It was simply beautiful.