If the shoe fits

And it does fit. Especially when they are actually made for your feet.

Today we created a travel tradition. In Greece last summer Stavros Melissinos (the sandal maker/published poet) sat at our feet and created beautiful sandals straight out of a chapter in the Iliad. Today, we found a woman whose family makes the wood needed for the soles of the sandals, while she in turn hand paints each one! Once you choose your sole than you pick the fabric for the top and she sits at your feet measuring and hammering and creating beautiful sandals just for you! Now that we've had shoes literally made for us in these two places, we now must do this on each trip:-) Oh, Debra bought lovely white sandals with nice oriental embroidery. Colby bought pink ones, obviously.

A quick note: there was also a shoe sale in general in another part of the city...you better believe we capitalized on that one too.