Semana Santa

Hello all! This week is Semana Santa here in Spain, which means I don't have to work and I have all sorts of time to get things done... like play Call of Duty. But I am taking a break from my busy schedule to write a blog post. I was planning on writing a political diatribe, but Katie made me promise that I would put that off until later and write about what we have been doing lately. So here we are.

We just go back from a town called San Sebastian this weekend. We had heard all sorts of great things about this place and it certainly lived up to the hype. It's a beautiful town in the north of Spain a couple miles from the French border. It's right on the sea and there's a lot of good surfing there. Katie, Blake and I rented a car in Madrid which I expertly piloted for our three day excursion. There were a few hiccups though, because I hadn't driven a stick for about 3 years. I killed it three times in the parking lot right when we got going, but I got my feet back under me and we were on our way.

The northern part of Spain is really beautiful. We all agreed on this point, but Blake took it a bit overboard with his comparisons. During a period of about two hours he managed to compare the landscape to: France, Colorado, California, New Zealand, and the surface of Mars. There were a lot more but they've slipped my mind.

Anyway. We actually went to a town called Santander first where we all shared a king size bed in a 4 star hotel. Naturally I ended up in the warm center of that sandwich, which wasn't very pleasant. But those memories should be easily suppressible... We went to the beach at both towns and had a nice relaxing time. We also saw a lot of boobs. The beaches were clearly labeled "non-nude", but what self respecting overweight spanish octogenarian follows the rules! There's just some things that you can't unsee.

Blake and I tried surfing. It turned out to be more of a "let's see how much saltwater we can swallow in one afternoon" type of deal, but I am improving. I stood up for about 1.5 seconds once. It was long enough to scream "Yeeeeaaahhhh" and then go crashing back under water.

But I digress. The last several months have been good. The weather has been fantastic and school has been going pretty well. We have spent a lot of time hanging out with the team of people that Berean sent over here. There's Ryan, Jenee and their son Sam. Blake and Nick, who live together. Then Ashley, Nikki, Stacy, and Erin. Katie and I get to babysit Sam every Friday. He's a flipping riot. He likes to dance to music and play with iPhones. I think that's pretty standard for 11 month olds.

Katie just ran the half marathon a couple weeks ago! She finished with a better time than last year and didn't complain as much afterward, which I consider a bigger feat for her! I have also been working out. I'm going on about a month and a half right now of working out regularly. So far the results are mainly mental, but I've got a good feeling the work will show eventually...

Alright, that's all for now. My 45 minutes of internet at Starbucks are almost up so I need to get going. I'll try to get that political diatribe on here ASAP.

Luke