Why... Hello There Strangers.

To both of our regular readers, I apologize for our lack of posting over the past few weeks. I won't make any excuses, we really have been quite busy. Matthew left for Bilbao earlier this morning to see his family off to the airport, and I will be joining them later today after the cooking class I have later this afternoon (my birthday gift from M).

We've absolutely loved having Matthew's parents, grandfather and aunt here for a visit. We've seen some beautiful sites, ate amazing food, and drank deliscious wine. We went to San Sebastian, Pamplona (post San Fermin), and Haro for a wine tour. We lingered over most of our meals for two hours or more, probably trying 100 dishes all together over the course of 10 days (6 people, at least 4 different courses a meal, and often doing tapas with lots more little courses really adds up). In Haro we walked through the hand-built caverns of a 132 year old winery, and tasted 20 year old white wine (and Matthew's dad bought a bottle of wine that is 8 years older than I am). In Pamplona, we traced the path that the bulls run through in about 2 minutes from their corrals (or most of the way there, there was a Bollywood movie being filmed the first 50 meters or so), but at a much more leisurely pace. We also laid on the beach in two different countries (we liked the french beach better), ate lots of ice cream, took lots of pictures (none on my camera though).