I finally found a reasonable priced flight from Washington to San Francisco for the trip to Greece and booked it. 

I found it interesting when I took a vacation two years ago to the Caribbean Island of Dominica (not the Dominican Republic), that the most popular game there is Dominoes.  It's so popular that many get together to play in for money, like the poker groups her in the U.S.A. 

I was watching a show yesterday on the History channel about life found around volcano vents in the middle of the ocean.  The scientists were very surprised to find a life form living deep in the cracks where the pressure is very extreme and the temperature of the water is above boiling (although it doesn't boil because of the extreme pressure at those depths).  This shows that the life force is a powerful thing that is not easily denied and will find a way.

Dumb Crimes and Criminals:

A guy in Amsterdam tried to rip off a store in a unique way.  He bought a lobster there, then returned it claiming it had gone bad.  The store gave him some crab meat in exchange, but then discovered that what he returned was just an empty shell carefully glued together. 

A kid in Australia got kicked off the school bus for fighting.  To teach him a lesson, his father made him walk the seven miles to school each day during the five-day suspension.  The first day after he was allowed back on the bus, he got kicked off for fighting.

Two young inmates at a jail in New Zealand tried to escape.  The two were handcuffed together.  When they came to a lamp post down the street, one went left and the other right.  They slammed into each other and were knocked down, so they were easily caught by the police.