The Ultimate Celebrity Sighting

Well, we are back from Greece, safe and sound. We had a great time! We stayed in Athens and saw all the good stuff, rang in the new year on the balcony of our hotel with a views of the Acropolis all lit up at night. We ate a lot of good food, including fabulous HUNKS of feta-- you can imagine how pleased I was at all the cheese available to me.

On our last day, which was New Year's Day, we signed up to do this "three island tour" through our hotel. We had to be on our bus at 7 am, so we didn't stay out too late the night before. After narrowly escaping major motion sickness on the bus, I boarded this huge boat, along with about 400 other tourists. The tour was an all day affair, and they took us to three islands and let us get off the boat and explore each one.

By the time we reached the third island, we were tired and hungry and almost out of euros. So, we decided that our first stop would be a cafe for something warm to drink and a little snack. As we passed by one cafe, the manager or someone signaled for us to come in, that he had a table for us.

So, the four of us (Mr. Bossy and I and one of the couples we traveled with) pushed our way throught the cafe to the only available table. I noticed right away that there was one other table in the cafe (the one right next to ours) that had some non-Greeks. I glanced over and was immediately drawn to one woman sitting at the table in black sunglasses. I looked at her, did a double take, and looked again.

She saw me looking at her, and sort of frowned in my direction. I sat down and kept trying to glance over at her and see if it was who I thought it was, meanwhile trying to be cool and keep talking to my friends as if nothing was happening.

All of a sudden I heard her voice, and it confirmed what I already knew:

I was sitting not six feet away from Martha Stewart.

MARTHA STEWART!

I could not believe it. I was FREAKING out. I am NOT good with celebrity-- it's a good thing I don't live in LA or something because I can't concentrate on anything, and get all nervous and weird when they are around. Plus, I have never been around a celebrity of her stature before-- my previous sightings are limited to Chipper Jones and Little Richard.

Anyway, I was too scared to approach her, and didn't want to be an amazing dork, so I managed to contain myself until she left.

I did see her take a picture of a glass on her table with a lemon wedge and a greek flag in it, so be on the lookout for that in the upcoming season.

For now, I am holding my breath until her show comes back on when she mentions the red-headed American tourist that stared her down in a cafe in Greece on New Year's Day.