Hello all! As I am coming home from a day and night full of studying for final exams, I am utterly exhausted and cannot wait too much longer for break. Luckily, we are only a week away from being done with exams and now only EIGHT DAYS away from our flight to Spain!
For those of you that don’t know, the two eldest Andrade boys and myself have decided to fly ourselves over to Spain for a large duration of winter break, (poor Luisito, it’s literally his entire winter break.) “Why Spain?” you may be asking yourself. Well, for one, we couldn’t afford France or Italy. For two, and mostly for two, the Andrade name has a little stake in the world and it happens to be the corner we are exploring this winter. We will be hosted (most graciously) for a large portion of our trip by Luis and Nico’s extended family in Almeria, Spain. (That’s riiiiiiiight here.) From December 18, 2013-January 4, 2014, don’t call or text ’cause we’ll be having too much fun in Europe! Also the boys are on limited data plans, don’t run up their monthly bill, please.
The itinerary has us coming into Madrid and immediately grabbing a bus down to Almeria in time for a good ol’ Spanish dinner- at 9:30 p.m. The rest is super tentative, I mean extremely tentative. Who knew it would be difficult to travel in a Catholic country around Christmas, anyway?! My hope is to journal our experiences and memories on this blog, also to keep track of where we’ve been since we have nearly no clue what we’re doing as of now!!
Us three kiddos have always felt tied down to family and tour groups while we travel (sorry moms, we love you, you’re still fun!) and we hope this will be something different and memorable in many different ways. We will try to be as candid as possible, but of course, some memories are meant to stay in your mind.
Eight days is an unimaginable number compared to the hundreds left when we bought the tickets in the summertime. The trip didn’t even seem real until very recently, when I could easily translate the day figure into weeks and when the number of weeks decreased so rapidly that we are now at only a little more than ONE. There is still a lot of focusing to be done on final exams and not failing anything and packing clothes and exchanging money, but this is a beautiful, gleaming, just-out-of-reach thought that will provide awesome motivation.
Good luck on finals, everyone!
-Emma
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