My parents just came to Spain for the first time this past weekend! My Dad had a meeting in Barcelona that just happened to fall on my 21st birthday!! So I went to visit them there and it
was a beautiful city and we had a great time, although it was short. My Mom and I had time to go to mass in the Cathedral before they closed it for the day at 1:00 o´clock, then we ran to the Park Guell and see the whole city from the top of the trail of the Three Crosses and the awesome Guadi art. And then we went to see Sagrada Familia,
but only from the outside. It was pretty fantastic and I took pictures of the different scenes of the life of Christ depectied all over the facade very intricately. It´s still in construction, since 1908! We celebrated my birthday at a very nice cena organized for the doctors in Las Damas, a very fine restaurant that served us about 8 courses, including sea urchins!!
was a beautiful city and we had a great time, although it was short. My Mom and I had time to go to mass in the Cathedral before they closed it for the day at 1:00 o´clock, then we ran to the Park Guell and see the whole city from the top of the trail of the Three Crosses and the awesome Guadi art. And then we went to see Sagrada Familia,
but only from the outside. It was pretty fantastic and I took pictures of the different scenes of the life of Christ depectied all over the facade very intricately. It´s still in construction, since 1908! We celebrated my birthday at a very nice cena organized for the doctors in Las Damas, a very fine restaurant that served us about 8 courses, including sea urchins!! 
Then we drove back through Cataluyna, Aragon, and Navarra to Pamplona. It took 6 hours
across the Spanish countryside and it was a lot of fun. Stopping in Lleidre for lunch, we then past the Greenwhich Meridian, among many other things.We also stopped in Zaragoza to see our Lady of Pilar, the patroness of Spain! She is tiny and so be
autiful! I´m sorry that I can´t think of any other English adverbs to describe things right now. But we arrived in the Basilica of Our Lady just at the time that the
sister of the King of Spain was giving her flowers so there was a big celebration going on. There were bagpipes and music and dancing outside in the Plaza as they processed out. Zaragoza is the only city in Spain that has two big churches, and they are right next to each other! The Plaza of the Basilica and the Cathedral is trmendous. I have wonderful (new adjective: you like?) pictures that I will post asap!In Pamplona we had a lot of fun too. I took them to places that the girls at the Colegio recommended me, like the Mirador by the Cathedral, where I had never been before. We could see the whole city.
I also showed them around the campus of the Universidad de Navarra and we had the comida with Lili and Crispin!
They came over to Goiemendi for the comida one day and my Dad gave a tertulia cultural in English and Spanish about the health care system in California and social security. The thing is that many of the girls thought that it´s very 
hard to get health 
care in the States but he set them straight. And then he told them about some interesting cases he has seen as a obstetrician, which the baby is in danger of dying but the mothers choose life and give testimony to the doctors in training about the value of life.
After tha
t tertulia on the last day before they left, we went to a big Castle nearby where the King of Navarra used to live in the 1400s called Olite. It was a cool castle that they have restored a lot. Because it was raining, we were basically the only ones there! I have some good pictures from there too.
Yesterday, I played hooky and went with my friend Daniela to the Bardenas Reales because it was her last day here and she wanted to see them before she left. We actually weren´t able to walk all the way to the Bardenas Bardenas but we saw some similar hills on the way. The Bardenas are kind of like th
e Grand Canyon of Navarra, only they are mountains that have been formed by the dry weather, torrential rains, and strong winds into weird crinckled shapes. The picture is of a house in the nearby city because I forgot to put pictures of the mountains on my flash drive right now. But I´ll add them soon. There was also a theme park in almost in the middle of them called SENDAVIVA that I really wanted to go to but it´s not open until tomorrow! So I´ll have to head back there next time I have a visitor who´d like to go with me....
So we made it as far as the Hermita of Our Lady of Yugo and we said hello to her and had the comida there. Thank goodness there was a little bar there because we were out in the middle of now where and we had forgetton to ask for lunch of bocadillos from the administration!
We I visited the Our Lady of Pilar and Our Lady of Yugo you can be sure that I prayed for each and every one of you who is reading this blog! I´ll post pictures soon!
hard to get health 
care in the States but he set them straight. And then he told them about some interesting cases he has seen as a obstetrician, which the baby is in danger of dying but the mothers choose life and give testimony to the doctors in training about the value of life.
After tha
t tertulia on the last day before they left, we went to a big Castle nearby where the King of Navarra used to live in the 1400s called Olite. It was a cool castle that they have restored a lot. Because it was raining, we were basically the only ones there! I have some good pictures from there too.Yesterday, I played hooky and went with my friend Daniela to the Bardenas Reales because it was her last day here and she wanted to see them before she left. We actually weren´t able to walk all the way to the Bardenas Bardenas but we saw some similar hills on the way. The Bardenas are kind of like th
e Grand Canyon of Navarra, only they are mountains that have been formed by the dry weather, torrential rains, and strong winds into weird crinckled shapes. The picture is of a house in the nearby city because I forgot to put pictures of the mountains on my flash drive right now. But I´ll add them soon. There was also a theme park in almost in the middle of them called SENDAVIVA that I really wanted to go to but it´s not open until tomorrow! So I´ll have to head back there next time I have a visitor who´d like to go with me....So we made it as far as the Hermita of Our Lady of Yugo and we said hello to her and had the comida there. Thank goodness there was a little bar there because we were out in the middle of now where and we had forgetton to ask for lunch of bocadillos from the administration!
We I visited the Our Lady of Pilar and Our Lady of Yugo you can be sure that I prayed for each and every one of you who is reading this blog! I´ll post pictures soon!
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