Juntos February 2, 2009
We are all tighter! I can’t tell you how happy I am to have Wells and the dogs here! It was an adventure for sure. So…………………I rented a car (A Blue Euro-Speed Skate) to drive to Madrid, which is 6 hours north of Nerja. When I got the car I noticed that it was a stick and just started dying laughing. The last time I drove a stick was in college, a la Christy’s beamer for those of you who remember. I can count on one hand the number of times I have driven a stick. Anyway, for the first 45 minutes of the trip it was one small town after another so I kept having to shift in and out of first gear, which gave me hives just about. I was so tense that I actually started counting out loud to relax. I arrived Madrid and had an uneventful evening in hotel and waited for Wells to arrive early the next morning. I was a mess thinking about the girls flying but all arrived unscathed. We drugged the dogs so they were out of it. The car was so small even thought it was the biggest I could rent that the dogs had to sit in our laps for the entire ride back to Nerja. It was snowing and raining and totally awful and we drove 45 minutes out of the way on the Madrid equivalent to 285 until we found our way.
I had been telling Wells how hard the bed was and he didn’t really understand until he experienced it last night. The next thing you know we are purchasing memory foam to put over it – our most expensive purchase by far. Definitely worth it.
The only problem we are having is that there is virtually no grass in Nerja, or any Spanish town for that matter. The dogs just will not ‘go’ on concrete so we are having a bit of an issue. But overall they seem to be adjusted and happy but they slept all over us last night.
Miss you all! I am utterly and completely happy now that we are all “juntos”!
