Another misty day, so we headed into town to meet up with kalin and her friend again before they went back to Valencia tonight. We did get some churros y chocolate, which was delicious. Then we went to meet a couple of the kids near the Guggenheim just to check in and say hi, but only one made it. Another one who was supposed to be there couldnt get there since her family was all asleep at 4 pm (ah, the siesta), and the other girl, it turns out, is having the sam...

...you best dress sporty! Today was a very active but very beautiful day! We started out a little later again today. When Maite got home last night, she informed us she wasn't getting out of bed before 9:30 today. :) and today we hopped in her car and headed down the coast first to a town called Bermeo. It's an adorable fishing village set right on the coast (which makes sense for a fishing village, no?). We walked around the marina area and the old town. We were...

I ill cut to right now to explain my title. Jeanne and I just walked in at 11:15 pm and found that our 58-year old host is not even at home that early on a Saturday night! Ah well... So today started out quite slowly. I was awake by about 9:30, but laid in bed for quite a while waiting for Jeanne to wake up. So by the time we we both ready to go, it was pretty much already too late to bother taking our planned day trip to San Sebastian. (No worries - we have all ...

Today started out bright and early in Madrid. Our bus picked us up at 6:45 am and brought us to the Chamartin train station to catch our 8 am train to Bilbao. Thus began four and a half hours of basically chilling on the train. A little napping, a little reading, it was all good. So, we pulled into Bilbao around 12:40 pm, and most of the kids families were already there waiting to whisk them off to their homes around the Bilbao area. A little more than half are i...

Quoth the Arrowhead students in our group! Today brought us to Segovia, a smaller town to the northwest of Madrid. The "ciudad vieja" (old town) dates from MANY centuries ago. To start with, you have the aqueducts, built over 2000 years ago by the Romans. Yes, I meant for that to have all those zeros. It was actually used to carry water all the way to the end of the 19th century. No mortar, still gorgeous. Then we walked up towards the plaza mayor (yes, nearly al...