I´m not even going to apologize for not writing. So much has happened since my last blog. The biggest and saddest is that my first boyfriend/love/best friend that was a boy passed away this month. Of course, anyone who reads this blog knows him as Dave. He was only 28 years old and it is a tragedy. I can´t believe he´s gone, but at the same time, it´s hard to know he is because I haven´t been home yet. My feelings about him and how special he was are too personal to write in a blog, but I will always love him and miss him. Really, I don´t think he´d want me to write anything about him on the net, as he hated it when someone could type his name in google and get a hit, but I had to put something because it would be disrespectful to the time we spent together not to recognize it and let you all know.
Moving on, as he´d have liked... mom and dad and Whit just left from a week long visit with me. We were in Barcelona for a few days and then in Pamplona. I lost my camera just before they came, so Whit has all the pictures on her camera and I forgot to upload them. Mom took a bunch of video too. One of my favorite clips includes dad giving us a spanish lesson. It came up because before they left for Spain from Norway, dad mentioned to Whitney that he knew some spanish and remembered taking it in high school. Whit sort of laughed and said, "oh yeah? Like what?" dad says to her, "cómo está?!" And, it goes on from there.
Whitney and I also discovered that our beds were those adjustable kind with a remote when we went to sleep the first night. We had races with them and pretended to be invalids, which is also on video. We saw so many things! Here are some links for more info and pictures: Park Guell, Sagrada Familia, Mercado Boqueria, The Picasso Museum, all the Olympic stuff... I dunno, links lists are sort of lame. It was a fabulous time though.
When we got home to Pamplona, My French family met my American family and it was all wonderful. Whit and I went to practice together Monday night and left mom and dad to Catherine and her French champagne. My coaches and teammates enjoyed watching me get pissed when she´d kick my ass. Yosu wants Whit to come play here next year so he had a huge talk with us about character and good people and how the club is such a family. He must have pinched my face and grabbed the back of my neck like 5000 times! Don´t touch yoyo!
I took the folks and Whit to San Sebastian on Tuesday and we walked all over in the rain and had pinchos. It was a nice day other than the weather. Tuesday night we went out and had a beer with Kim and Iñaki and played some pool, that was fun. Wednesday was sort a late start and we mostly just shopped around the mall and had lunch. Wednesday night I had a game and everyone got to come! It was so fun and we won big time. Yosu tried to work his magic again by buying mom and Whit a tortilla at halftime and giving Whit a few armpit hugs... didn´t work. On Thursday I went to class and walked the fam all over downtown Pamplona. Mom did some mother of the groom dress shopping and we had lunch at Bar Iruña, which is a cool old one where Hemmingway used to hang. He actually mentions it in The Sun Also Rises. Thursday night we had beers at the Australian bar with alligator stools. Friday morning, it was time to get ready to go. I dropped mom and dad at the bus station at 1. I still don´t know if their travel was seamless. I dropped Whit at the train at 6:30 ish and that was that.
I was a little stressed while they were here and it made me a little grouchy. I hope they had fun even when I wasn´t being so fun. Now that they´re gone, I can´t believe it, too quick. But, it´s good to have some catch up time now.
Next week I´m heading to Cadiz, maybe a day in Sevilla and then on to Valencia, during Semana Santa. I´m hoping for lots of sun and a nice tan by the time I get back.
I hope all is well back home. Give mom and dad a call for a private viewing of our trip on mom´s new camera. Who knows, you may all be getting a DVD of it in the mail, knowing mom and her excitement for new electronic gadgets! Love, love, love you all!
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