Our Trip Thus Far...

So our trip to Spain began last Tuesday. Monday night we headed down to the Chalupa and stayed the night there. We woke Tuesday morning and started our trek to Spain (me, Wika, Emma and Simon) It was a 15 hour drive, so we decided to do it in 2 days. Our half way mark was in Albertville France. (hosted the 1992 winter Olympic Games) We stayed at the Hotel Le Tetras...it was...interesting. Very small, but it was just a place to rest our heads. It was WAY up the mountain, so much in fact that you wouldn't have known it was June!! Lots of fog and pretty cold, but what do you expect when you're on top of a mountain??

Wednesday morning we woke up got ready and headed out for our last 7 hours. It was 8:30 in the morning, and our trusty Garmin said it would take us exactly 7 hours to arrive in Sitges!! WOOHOO!! That meant by 4 we should FOR SURE be in Spain right??? WRONG!! We got SO lost going down that mountain. What took us 40 min the night before took us 2 hours the next morning. We thought we had to go down the same way we came up. WRONG! The GPS had another way for us to go down and continue our trek...but it took us, and by us I mean the men, a little while longer to come to that realization. That just goes to show, women ARE always right. In the men's defense, they followed her for a good while until she tooks us to a road that was closed...and that is where the fun began. But we finally figured it out and unfortunately we had a lot of time to make up for!! Oh well, what can ya do. We ended up arriving in Sitges Spain around 6:30 pm. Where we finally met up with FAMILY!!

Sitges is GORGEOUS! It's right on the Mediterranean Sea. Every morning we wake up to the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks, it really is rough!! Then we eat fresh croissants with chocolate milk and then it's off to the beach!! Emma LOVES the sand, the water, not as much.

This is what she did the whole time while at the beach.

Getting burried in the sand!

At the apartments (where everyone else is staying) there are pools. And sometimes it's just nice to not get so sandy and just lay out at the pool.

Emma just used her little watering can and kept filling up her bucket.

Back at the beach... Emma on the the skim board

Helping Uncle Richard build a sand castle

getting ready for daddy to bury her, again.

ALL DONE

Now that she is burried, we all now have to wait on her. If she wants her bucket, we get her her bucket. If she wants her bucket full of water, we do that too. She has everyone wrapped around her fingers...even her wonderful cousins. She is pretty spoiled, and unfortunately she knows it!

this is outside our hotel, Emma loves the lions.

We get to ride our bicycles every day, and Emma loves it!! As soon as we wake up in the morning she asks if she can ride her bicycle. So cute!

no trip to Europe would be complete without a doner kebab! (Emma's actually eating a durum, same thing but just wrapped in a tortilla instead of bread) Yumm! We told Emma it was a taco, as you can see...no problems eating it.

So I may have burnt myself...what do you think?? OUCH! I am over it already though!!

Last night the whole family went on a bike ride down along the Paseo...it was a lot
of fun. So we snatched a family photo on our bikes. (thanks Richard)
Emma LOVED the flash from the camera. She kept asking "more lights" She would say cheese and we would get a lot of cute pictures. If we have a lot of pictures at night...that would be why.

Thats it so far. We are having a blast!! We still have 6 days left here in Spain. This Thursday we are heading into Barcelona. Then we leave Sunday to head back to Prague for a week!! Europe is gorgeous. We love it and are so LUCKY to be able to come visit and be with family. We hope you all are doing well.

ADIOS!