Darby Day Eve

The fiesta known to some as "La Fiesta de Pilar", to others as, "Darby Day", is here tomorrow! I allowed myself a little shopping spree at H&M to celebrate. Not too much of one though. I´d ratehr travel and look like crap than don some sweet threads and sit at home.

Really, I´m up to my same ol tricks. Good practice last night and a good class this morning. Annika and I went shopping after, obviously, and she was amazed by Le Clerc and it´s enormity. She says they have nothing like it in Germany. We don´t have much like it in teh U.S. either, but all our stores are so big, so the idea of a humongous store is not off my map.

I´m still waiting to have my first encounter with the Euro GAP. I´ll need some money saved for that because I can´t be held responsible for my actions in that store.

Tomorrow I have a language share at 10:30 and than am meeting annika for a concert put on by the university at noon. That´s about the extent of my birthday plans. I have a few random pictures for you though...
This, to the left, is a really old house in teh middle of down town Pamplona. I went down there yesterday to buy a bus ticket and spied it on the corner of one of the many round abouts (they don´t really have stop lights here, just big circles you have to sort of double dutch your way into without hitting the rope, so to speak). I thought it was cool, so I snapped it. I´m told it´s still a residence, which is extra cool.
To the right is the neighborhood dog. He lives with a man around the corner from our house that owns some pigs. It´s always kind of stinky over there, but he´s a very good dog. He never barks and is always just sort of hanging around in teh street for a pet or a pat on the head.
To the left is a hedge that runs all along the sidewalk on my way out to the trail where I jog. It always smells like mint and pumpernickel, in other words, delicious. Mom, do you know what kind of hedge it is?
This picture of the clouds is specifically for Whitty the Woo Cave. It was much more breathtaking in person, but I thought you´d enjoy the cloud picture, since you take so many. I´d say we´ve got better clouds in Spain than in Portland. France had some good ones too. You better come check it out Whits.
And finally, to the left is a picture of the largest boxes of cereal I have ever seen. The ones on the lower shelves are regular sized, so you can tell how huge they are. But, I was rather disappointed when I picked one up to have Annika take a picture of me next to... it was empty. Sorry Kev, your dream ceareal box is a fake. But, pretty cool lookin´.

I´m not sure when I´ll get to blog again. Tomorrow´s going to be busy and I´m heading to Bonn on Thursday. I´ll get something up after my trip ASAP. Adios.