Cyprus!

So after over 24 hours, all 27 of us (my numbers were a bit wrong earlier) made it to Cyprus. We got delayed sitting in the airplane at Dulles airport just outside DC for a solid 2 hours. We had exactly 2 hours from our original estimated arrival time in London until our connecting flight to Cyprus. Which we obviously missed. Thankfully, we were able to get all of our group onto the next flight out of the London Heathrow airport on a Cyprus Airways flight to Larnaca, the major international airport in Cyprus. Of course, one of the flight attendants on the Cyprus Airways flight was our professor's brother-in-law.

Over 24 hours of airplane air, airplane food, airplane seats, airport seats and airport food made all of us a bit delirious but we all remained in pretty good spirits for the elongated trip.  We all made it sore and tired to Cyprus where we took about a 45 minute bus ride into the capital, Nicosia. Over the hills of Nicosia, which is a divided city, you can see a light up flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (our first sighting in the darkness of night of anything about the conflict). We checked into our hotel which is really nice and in the Old City that is surrounded by Venetian walls then most of the group headed out to dinner around 11:30pm. Its now 2:35am, I've just showered and I cannot wait to go to bed.

Tomorrow we'll be attended the parade and festivities celebrating a Greece Independence holiday and talking to students about our research and other things.