Each day we live here opens my eyes to an alternative reality, provides me with new opportunities and more often than not makes me smile and giggle. Here are a few of the things that are make me smile…
- Cafe con leche – anytime all over the place
- Beautiful tomatoes at the supermart
- Canned sausages with jack-o-lanterns made especially for Halloween
- A woman walking down the street wearing leather pants and high heels, carrying a fur purse and pushing a pram – a far cry from my flip flops and yoga pants.
- “Douches” – the Spanish work for shower
- The gas station sells olive oil by the gallon
- My cooking class on the ‘the fish of Spain”
- Getting to have lunch with Mike more often
- Doing homework together as a family
- Taking Spanish class with the host of Iceland’s, “The Biggest Loser”
- The small grocery right downstairs
- Jacob and Lily scootering down small picturesque streets
- Pigeons on my windowsill and parrots flying down the street
- Long down coats when it is 55 degrees outside
- Being friends with a family that will be featured
- The Christmas food drive that is requesting only candy donations
- Living within walking distance of good gelato
- Tha clomper upstairs
- Pastries in Sunday mornings
- Bagels delivered to our door
- Watching American TV
- Doing very little volunteer work
- Warm churros from local chucharrias
- A local mainstream tourists magazine with an article lamenting the shortage of sex shops in Barcelona
- Spectacular sushi
- The giant, very expensive ham legs (including the hoof) that are considered an excellent Christmas gift