Hello all! Happy St. Patrick's Day! I wish that I could be drinking a cold green beer with everyone back home! I guess its not a huge day here like back home but there are a few Irish pubs in the city that will be celebrating.
This past weekend I was in Salamanca again. My Mom and Rich had just arrived in Spain and went straight to Salamanca so I met them once I arrived. My friend Kevin from Ohio, who I met studying in Salamanca had also arrived this week for a visit and I got to spend some time with him and some other friends in Salamanca. It was a great weekend. Mom Rich and I met for dinner and had a great dinner the first night. Afterwards I met up with Kevin and Raul and some other friends for a night out. It was quite a typical night out in Salamanca and we returned home around 6:30 am. The next day I met Mom and Rich in the plaza and we headed off for churros and chocolate then followed up with some sight seeing. We visited the Cathedral, which is preparing for Semana Santa (holy week) and had the floats for the processions on display. We saw the University facade, where Rich was the first to find the frog! We had pinchos in the Plaza Mayor for lunch accompanied by some beer and a bottle of wine. After lunch we went to San Esteban, a beautiful church and Gothic-Renaissance cloister in Salamanca and then we dropped in on the cloistered nuns, who sell cookies through a little window that they make in the cloister to raise money. Once we had seen the city Mom and Rich caught the train back to Madrid, where they will be for the next few days. I stayed with Kevin and Raul for another day and then came back to Soria. I have to work Tuesday and Wednesday and then I am off to Andalucia, southern Spain, to meet up with Mom and Rich again. I will update my Picasa account with the pictures I took this weekend in Salamanca. When I return from sipping Sherry in Andalucia I will be sure to post those pictures as well! Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter holiday! Wish you were here!
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Hey, it sounds like you are having a great time - I am so jealous that most of the family is in Spain right now and I am stuck in Ohio watching the dogs! When you talk to your mom, or my dad next - will you please tell my dad to call me?
They haven't left me any way to reach them I there is an attorney that is having some issues and needs some advice from my dad and I don't know what to tell him! It would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!
Can't wait to see more pictures so I can continue to live vicariously through you!
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