Home Sweet Spain

Well we finally made it to Spain!  It's so beautiful here and such a different place to what I'm used to.  We live in Oviedo, which is about an hour plane ride north of Madrid.  We got here 2 weeks ago, and finally got internet yesterday.  So you can imagine how hard it has been not to have any entertainment or being able to talk to family for the past 2 weeks.  Our trip here went great.  Bryce was amazing on the plane ride over (it was an all-nighter flight, so he did sleep for the majority of the flight)  he only cried once, and that's because he was ready to be fed and then go to sleep.  We landed in Madrid after our 10 hour flight and had to make a connecting flight to Oviedo.  We of course missed our connecting flight because after going through customs and then their security, which was an absolute joke, people were pushing and yelling and it was not organized one bit (something that would never be tolerated in the States).  We finally got on our new flight and got to Oviedo.   One of Bryan's coaches picked us up from the airport.  Our first night here will probably be my most memorable nights sleep I have ever had.  We didn't sleep at all.  We would sleep like 2 hours and then be fully awake and then try to go back to sleep etc.(its a 9 hour time difference here from California)  One of the longest nights I have ever had in my life.  Bryce did ok though.  The next day we were shown our new place where we are going to live for the next 8 months.  It's a really, really small place.  It's a one bedroom, one bathroom place.  Our bed is 2 twins pushed together, and we actually moved our bed into the living room, so that Bryce could have the bedroom.  So Bryan and I made our room into a little studio apartment.  The kitchen, the kitchen table, couch, couple dressers and washing machine ( the washing machine is right next to the stove) are all in our room.  It's pretty small here, but we are making it work.  There are no such things as dryers here in Spain!  It's horrible.  We have a drying rack and a rack outside our window where we hang our clothes to dry.  It takes days to dry!!!  It's something I have to get used to I guess.

 We are enjoying it so far.  I finally got Bryce out for our nightly walks which are just beautiful!  It's like New York City here (a place I have ALWAYS wanted to live) it's very busy....but a beautiful city.  There's a park we walk to, so it's nice to have some quiet around.  Everybody, I mean EVERYBODY speaks Spanish (as they should) so I am having a hard time with that.  I can't talk to anybody and I just keep to myself. Bryan translates everything for me and is helping me out a lot.   The one good thing about me not speaking ANY Spanish is that I do not like to talk during Bryan's basketball games, to anyone, so since I don't know the language...I don't have to talk to anyone :)  Bryan is fitting right into his new life as a professional basketball player.  He likes the coaches and his new team very much.  The basketball gym where he practices at and also plays his home games at is about a 1/4 mile walk.  It is very close.  Here are a few pictures....I will get pictures up of our apartment once we are fully settled in!

Bryce's first time showering in Spain

His bed for now (couch cusions surrounded by all our suitcases)

First time to San Francisco Park (a park Bryan would go to all the time on his mission and actually the very first thing Bryan ever sent me while on his mission was a postcard of this park!)

First time eating in his new high chair

First time going to watch his dad play basketball

We finally got him a little tub so that he doesn't have to shower