Tomorrow we leave for Bilbao. We have spent the day packing and cleaning out the apartment, sifting through our belongings and determining what stays and what gets packed up and heads home with us.
To whit:
The Chinese red stewpot whose bottom immediately bowed to the heat of our Spanish cooktop stove. I coined a saying "Flat-bottomed pots you make the cooking word go 'round" (stealing a line from a popular Queen song)...since from thence forward the pot would rattle and rock incessantly.
The Inkjet printer which ran out of ink after approximately twelve sheets of printed product. It is said that the money in home computer printing does not come from the sale of the printer, but from the ink cartridge. For as much as you can pay for a new printer, you must buy ink cartridges of equal value. That will stay.
All of the baskets, hangers, wall hooks (with impotent adhesives) for all of the crap we Americans needed to store.
Four pair of shoes riddled with wear after being pummeled on cobblestone streets.
All of the whiteboards that I wrote the kids' school assignments on each day.
What we will take with us:
Salmanaca
Gibraltar
Spanish Hill Towns
Toledo
Home To Vitoria
Galicia
Ribadeo
Cathedral Arches
Homeschooling
Downtown Vitoria by the Tram
Guernika
Mercado Medievale
Mutriku
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| One of my favorite pictures of Doe of all time. She is holding Rosie, the abandoned kitten we found. |
Madrid
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| Prado Museum |
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| Airsoft guns. Only Airsoft guns. |
La Mancha
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| Windblown <3 |
Sweet Sixteen (and a Fearless Forty-eight)
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