Spain Day 86:

Christmas break. It's finally here and that means we can all kick back and relax...well unless you have to work during the holidays and for that I am sorry. The rest of us will enjoy to a higher extent to compensate. I will be journeying to a few destinations over the next few weeks. First up is a flight to England where I'll be meeting up with the ever awesome, sportswoman of the year candidate, and witty to boot, Miss. Becky Dru. I gotta give a shout out to people who invite me over for Christmas and open their home. I love Christmas meals and even more so I love not having to frantically search for hostels, hotels, etc. So it's off to England first, Wycombe to be exact, then later on I'm gonna head over to London with the hope of seeing Karen and Greg. Then shortly after NYE I'll be headed to Dublin for a week or so. Guinness will surely be had. I can't wait to get this going and ring in the new year in style. Bon Nadal everyone! 

Spain Day: 70

So as the title implies and mirrors how I feel, I do think that I've gotten used to this whole Spain thing. Sure the layout of each day is different than back home and the feel of America is pretty distant I like the setup I've got going on. Now I haven't blogged in a little bit even though I said last time I needed to get back to it, but hey sometimes life says "no time for bloggin kid, go live a little more." That's exactly what I've been doing. My workload picked up and I did some traveling recently so there has been plenty to do. I think I'll do a written weekly recap for the weeks I missed because there are some cool pictures I wouldn't be able to include in a youtube video. After that I'll get back to the videos. 

For this post I'll talk about some of the travel I did since it was a cool trip and there were many pictures to be had. The experiences during of a four day weekend are usually pretty cool. For the four day weekend that just passed I got invited by some friends to stay at a house in Logroño. It's a city about 5 hours north of Malgrat. So on Friday afternoon my friend Jaume (a fellow teacher) and his girlfriend Montse along with myself, headed off. Some other friends of theirs had already left the previous day and we were going to meet them there. 

We arrived around 7PM and walked over to the main street where all of the bars and pubs were. It was pretty cool to see how a bar street in Spain isn't like the ones I've seen in America. The street was pretty small but there were people all over the place and as we walked up we saw the rest of the group. I didn't know what I was in for but there were about 20 of us altogether. It was a mix of families and friends that have all known each other for some time and I was just along for the ride. Apparently they only get to meet up a few times a year so they make sure to have a good time when they do. It was great to see that the parents in the group not only had their kids with them but were having a good time as well. 

The house we all stayed in.

Field behind the house

Wine tasting time

Where the magic happens

My appreciation for wine definitely grew this day

The group

Face drawing

So this little one was probably the cutest kid of all the kids but unfortunately I think she was a little shell shocked to see a large black man hanging out with her family. Whenever she saw me she just said "no." No prompting just no and later when we were saying our goodbyes she just said "no." I think we bonded. Baby steps

Spain doesn't really celebrate at all when it comes to Thanksgiving. The absence of the turkey day atmosphere definitely made me think about what I'm appreciative in this world. Just want to remind everyone to take a moment to think about the good things they've got going on. Happy holidays as we move toward Christmas time. Take care and enjoy some relevant music from Avicii.

Make sure you remember who'd fight for.