The Rain in Spain...

Does NOT stay mainly on the plain. Nope. We spent all day Saturday in the sun and then woke up Sunday morning to cold, grey, rain. So we decided to take a bus to San Sebastian. Our hostel was on the fourth floor of one of the really old cool buildings in Old Town San Sebastian. The whole city kind of blew my mind. Everything was so old and lots of cobblestone streets and really old churches. We´d be walking and then run into some old castle and just go in. I would have prefered some sunshine but the city seemed more mysterious all grey and misty. We ate ice cream (of course) down by the water and had tapas and pastries for dinner. Sara doesn´t eat meat so sometimes it´s hard to find her stuff to eat, hence all of the ice cream. Spainish people really love their meat. It´s on EVERYTHING. Everything is beautiful but now we´re back in Santander waiting for our flight to Barcelona this afternoon (it´s Tuesday about noon here.) The weather is supposed to be warm and sunny so I am happy! I didn´t bring clothes for this cold wet weather! Anyways, the plan is Barcelona for two days, meet up with Kareene and head down to Valencia, then we catch a plane Thursday night to Palma de Mallorca, which is the ISLAND!!!! Yay! Sara has to get back to London to get some work done so she leaves Saturday night and I´ll probably stay in Mallorca until Monday and head to Madrid where a few of Sara´s friends are going to Temple! She said they would love for me to tag along! So after that, catch a flight back to London and spend a few more days there with Sara before I fly home on Saturday. ok?

¡España!

Did you know the keyboards here allow you to type cool things like upside down excalamation points and ñññññ.

This place is cool.

Guess what I had for breakfast today?

ice cream.

Guess what I had for lunch today?

yep.

There is a lot of ice cream here. And I´m going to try it all.

Yesterday I had hazelnut and it was REALLY good. Today I had strawberry and lemon for breakfast and dulce de leche and dark chocolate for lunch... I´m sure they have other food to eat here besides ice cream but why?

So here´s the update:

Landed in London, walked around a bit, found a park and watched the people walking their dogs, birds were chirping, sun was shinning, sky was blue, I saw swans mate in the pond... Spring is in the air. Anyways, I met Sara and we took a bus to the Stanstead airport and flew to Santander, Spain and this might in serious honesty be the most goregous place I have ever been. I can´t even believe it and that´s what I keep telling Sara.

So we´re staying in a great little hotel and going to the beach and riding bicycles and eating ice cream... and tapas and bread. And that´s probably what we´re going to go tomorrow. And then we hop on a bus to go to SAN SEBASTIAN!!!! After that, who knows.

LOVE YOU ALL!

Cory, you need to come back here. I hear it calling to you and your wife. bueno.

Ha hahahaha.

lol.

So there are lots of things you notice when you are by yourself a lot, or at least I do, and one of them is that when something funny happens there is no one there to laugh at it with you. I guess I am usually a social laugher because every time I bust out laughing when I'm completely by myself I feel awkward and then I start laughing harder because I'm laughing at myself... It's a funny cycle. ha ha.

Another problem with this situation is that there is no one around to help remind you what was so funny! And then the next day I'm trying to tell someone my funny story and I can't remember it!

So I just had a really funny experience in my car and I want to share you with you.

I was driving through my apartment complex and I saw a very large person out walking in the parking lot and I immediately thought "that is a large bottom"

and THEN I immediately thought "Sara be nice, think of something positive-"

So THEN I thought "hey, at least he's out walking, getting some exercise, fresh air, etc. Good for him!"

THEN as I drove past giving him kudos in my head, I look at his face and...

It was a woman.

So much for being nice. That's when I lol'd. A lot. Sorry ma'am.