Success... ish and weird food no. 1

I think I had a successful afternoon. Catherine was definitely pleased. She cracked open yet another bottle of champagne to celebrate my new stick shift driving ability. Any excuse for champagne with her, I love it! I drove the whole time this afternoon, and pretty smooth. No big stalls or jerky stops. The kids were shocked at how much better I am. I think staying calm and using the e-break on hills are the best tips I´ve gotten, they work.

The kids and I went to the park after we got home and played until dinner. It´s like I´m 12 again! Awesome stuff.

Now, speaking of dinner, I´ve been trying to eat as many different foods as I can while I´m here. Every time Catherine offers something to me, I try it. The other night I ate cod liver for the first time. Not so weird in the states, but I´d never had it and it wasn´t as bad as I thought, but too much like cat food for me. Very soft on the tongue. Tonight for dinner we had squid, like long chunks of calamari, cooked in it´s own ink... yes ink! I´d never had or even heard of that before. It looks just like it sounds, pitch black sauce in bowl with little grey, fleshy bits poking out. Sounds disgusing, but it´s not that bad. I tasted it first at lunch and then had more at dinner. It´s pretty fishy and salty, but yummy, if you can stand to look at it on your plate.

Tomorrow I take the kids to school and drop Catherine at work so I can have the car in the morning, yay! The Cleo is still in the shop having the power steering looked at. Oh, speaking of cars, I found out today that Patrick has a frickin´Astin Martin! I can´t wait to see it, it must be in France at Patxoula.

Tonight, I was putting Louise to bed and she asks me all these cute questions like, "how do you put your head when you kiss a boy? So, how do you know when you´re going to kiss? Do you actually love your boyfriend?" She´s so funny, her walls are covered in pictures of famous cute boys. anyhow, Catherine came in to say goodnight and gave Louise a kiss on the cheek and then gave me one, how sweet. I felt like a part of the family!

So, some good moments today. I´ll try to blog about my trip to old town Pamplona and walking along the running of the bulls path tomorrow, with pics! Missing you all still, but settling in little by little.