Between the time change and my siesta today, I don't think I'm ever gonna go to sleep tonight.  I hope everyone had a great Easter!

Back in Murcia and it only took 5 1/2 hrs.

Our last night was spent in the Bacardi museum. The man who created the Bacardi rum, Facundo Bacardi, was from Sitges but went to Cuba and created the rum there. So in his honor, thereis a museum in Sitges. During the tour we learned about the history and the process of how it is made. They then gave us a tutorial on how to make a mojito and cuba libre. The end of the tour was to prepare on own mojito. We then went to dinner and for ice cream. We headed out around 10:30 this morning and now we are about two hours away from Murcia.

Nuria and her burger in Big Al's.

Me and my pulled pork and cherry coke.

Our time in Barcelona was spent walking around and looking in stores. We had good weather so that made everything better. We came back to Sitges to walk around and visit more stores. One of the store visist was for. We came across the Nike Store in La Rambla. We also found an American restaurant which was really good. Not only did it have cherry coke, but they also had pulled pork. This was by far the best dinner I've had in a while. The owner, Big Al, is from Seattle and has actually been to Knoxville. One last day in Sitges tomorrow.

Inside the Arabian Baths

Nuria and I on the wall.

Here I am on one one of the towers.

The city has wall, similar to the Great Wall of China but not so great, running along one side of the city. Here is a pic of the wall from one of it's four towers.

Day three was spent in Girona, a city about 30 mins away from the border with France. We spent the day exploring the city and some of it's attractions. It was a nice little day trip and was madw without any difficulties.  Well, the was a minor mishap in our return but nothing that the GPS couldn't correct. Tomorrow we are spending the first half of the day here in Sitges and then going to Barcelona.

Wine and sushi with the Nebrija Book Club!

Day two was much better. The majority of the day was spent walking around the town and in different stores. Tomorrow we are driving to Girona, a city about an hour north of Barcelona.

Well our first complete day here has also been quite interesting. We are in a beach town called Sitges, which is about 45mins south of Barcelona. One of Nuria's best friends lives in Barcelona so her and her boyfriend came down yesterday to spend the weekend here with us. Well we out for dinner and Nuria got sick. She spent last night and today either in bed or vomiting. Needless to say, we didn't do anything today. She finally started feeling better and we we went walking around in the cool, night air. More of the same tomorrow I suppose.

So after a quite eventful morning, we missed our flight. Here you have to print out your boarding passes and bring them to the airport and we did not do that. While having breakfast at the airport, instead of in Barcelona, we decided to get the car and drive up. Five hours later we made it here. A slight change in plans but everything turned out well. Something we will be able to laugh about later but right now it is still a fresh wound.

I hate packing. Especially when all you can take is a mini suitcase and one pair of shoes takes up 60% of it. Packing for a week is gonna be difficult.

Today is our first day of Spring Break. Kind of a bittersweet moment because if Easter was two weeks later, like it normally is, we would have come in for my friend's wedding. Oh well, flight to Barcelona early tomorrow morning.

Tried sushu for the first time tonight at our book club meeting even though I didn't read the book. I didn't read the previous book either or finish the first one. I did however propose the book for our next meeting, Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness. A novel we read in high school that I wanted to read again. Oh yeah, the sushi wasn't that bad but I prefer my food cooked.

Nuria and I went to her parent's house today before the Father's Day lunch with the family. We went to see the dogs and take them for a short walk since the weather was nice today. Nuria took No-No, the 11 or 12 year old german shepherd and I had Cooper, the 18 month puppy that weighs around 80 pounds. We had a nice walk but it was quite obvious that I need to see a few more episodes of the Dog Whisperer.

Today is San Jose, father's day, in Spain. So Happy Spanish Father's Day to all the padres!! It's also a holiday, so no school today!!

I received my niece's eight grade pictures today and needless to say I have had a huge smile all day and showing her picture to everyone. Proud uncle here!!

This is what it's like at Nuria's parent's house. Well, minus the little tiny dog.

I am extremely happy to be back home but between kids crying outside and dogs barking I miss the tranquility of the mountains. When the kids from the camp were quiet, all you could hear was the wind.

Back in Murcia and the sun is shining. I had a fun time at the camp and the kids were a good group. We finally had good weather this morning for the last couple of activities.

I was asked by a friend to help with his English Immersion camp. These are very common in Spain and when.I was in Aguilas I always went my students to a camp 30 mins outside of Valencia. These camps are good, in the Spring. My friend didn't tell me that the camp was going to be in the mountains and it is definitely not Spring here. Matter of fact, it snowed quite a bit this morning. Much more than it did in Tennessee when we there this past Christmas.

I'm glad it finally decided to warm up here. Walking to school last week in thirty-degree weather wasn't much fun. This week's almost fifty-degree weather has been much better.

Let the countdown begin! Two-week long spring break begins in less than three weeks.