Europe Trip 2007

• Spending the night outside the train station in Venice.
• Not missing our flight to Madrid, and getting our bags at the airport.
• Watching my roommate feed stray animals.
• Not having to wear a bathing suit top in San Sebastian.
• Not remembering if a conversation was in Spanish or English.
• Eating gelato several times a day in Varese.
• Cafe con Leche at all possible moments.
• Seeing the end of the Tour de France, por casualidad
• Running into the strange boy with the pink cowboy hat all over Spain.
• Pitchers of sangria instead of real dinner.
• Laughing about the night bus from Algeciras to Madrid, after it was all over.
• Archaeology museums, everywhere.
• Getting pulled over by the police three times in two countries.
• Helping el policia practice his English.
• La fiesta de San Roque.
• Meando.
• Getting hit on my Moroccans.
• Speaking Arabic instead of French in Morocco.
• Getting lost in Granada.
• Watching the light show of the Eiffel tower from our bedroom.
• Eating at McDonalds more than I do in the States.
• McDonald's Shrek toys that speak Spanish.
• Recognizing Penafiel Castle and feeling like I was home.
• Hearing Coti on the radio.
• The view of Switzerland from the train.
• Discovering what "proxima estacion esperanza" really means.
• Duro in Padilla.
• Going to look at iglesias with Diego.
• Getting the behind the scenes tour of Bilbao with Juanjo.
• Free dinner and good company at the Plaza Mayor in Madrid.
• Doing laundry in San Sebastian.
• Paella, tinto de verano, tortilla espanola.
• Finding the owl in Dijon.
• Seeing Palatine Hill in Rome.
• Refusing to look at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and instead looking at pots.
• The recurrent fun time of ordering train tickets in various foreign languages especially fun: Tangier, Dijon.
• Realizing that we did not accidentally take the ferry to Tarifa, but had paid tax (tarifa) on a ferry ticket to Algeciras.
• Flirting with the creepy bartender on the ferry to get L. a free soda, which she didn't drink.
• Watching stupid tourists get attacked by monkeys on Gibraltar.
• Wondering why Gibraltar exists in the first place.
• Not having a plan.
• Explaining to Spaninsh people why Soria is more fun than Barcelona.
• Washing ceramics at la casa vieja.
• Awkward moments with Diego's mother.
• Trying to learn how to drive stick shift in the rain, in Spanish language, in a European car.
• Calimocho.
• La verbena.
• Children in bars at 2 am. Also, Children in bars at all times of day.

2006/2007

• Waking up to snow in SLC
• Waking up next to Laura.
• TRAX
• Sharing the back seat with L and R from San Fran to SLC.
• Hot tubbing in the snow at night.
• Wine trips to the store in Lewiston, ME
• Seeing the Prado with Scott and Meredith.
• Duro in Padilla.
• Not sleeping, but hanging out at the ermita.
• Bullfight recreations.
• Duro in Madrid.