After a crazy summer filled with graduation, getting married, and getting ready to move, Greg and I finally made it to Spain. As most of you know we now live in Gijon, Spain-where Greg works for DuPont.
We flew out of Philadelphia on Friday the 22nd of August and arrived in Madrid, Spain at 7 a.m on Saturday where we spent the day touring the gardens and sites of the city. Greg surprised me with tickets to the theatre on Saturday night where we saw Disney's Bella y la Bestia (Beauty and the Beast)!! It felt like we were on Broadway... just in a different language. On Sunday we left Madrid for our new home, and after multiple plane/gate changes (we left 6 hours after our scheduled departure) we headed out and arrived in Gijon for dinner.
But now that we are here we are quickly making it home. Until our furniture arrives we are living in the Hotel Hernan Cortes, which is only a block from our flat, where we visit often to do laundry. This past weekend was the Cider festival in Gijon, thousands of people crowded the plazas to listen to typical music and drink many different types of cider. The picture is the symbol of this years festival. Often in restaurants a bottle of cider costs less than a bottle of water. The waiters hold the bottle in their right hands high above their head and pour the drink into the cup in their left hand which they hold down below their waste in order to aerate the cider (almost as much ends up on the ground as in the cup). They only pour about a sip at a time, and after you take a sip-you pour the rest out in order to "cleanse" the cup. It's quite interesting to watch.. by the end of the night the roads were all a little damp from all the pouring and dumping.
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