Today was BEAUTIFUL. It´s Sunday so Cano and Maribel invited Alfonzo and Cibran to have lunch (the most important meal of the day) with us. Let me tell you it was a FEAST if I´ve ever had one. We sat outside (it was a sunny day) and ate every kind of meat you can imagine; potatoes, pimientos, salad, empanadas, bread, fruit cake (to celebrate Cano´s birthday a month late) and afterwards we sat for hours drinking wine and chupitos, coffee and tea and talking about politics and family and culture and music--- it was wonderful.

After lunch I helped with the dishes and went upstairs for a little siesta. Slyvia came and got me at 7pm and we went to her Aunts house so I could meet her family. Everywhere you go around here people try to feed you and give you something to drink-- they are the epitome of hospitable. Then we stopped by her house so I could give her lesson on the spoons. She´s wonderful, I couldn´t have asked to meet someone more generous and good hearted. When we got to Santiago we met up with a bunch of people and walked to a nearby pub. A couple of Scottish fiddlers are in town. I asked one man what the occasion was. He told me it was his 60th birthday and there was nowhere else in the world he´d rather be to celebrate it then here in Galicia. He said Santiago is like nowhere else in the world and he knows because the moment he got here wonderful things started to happen to him, he called it serendipity. So the gang (xacobe, Gon, sinead, Slyvia, Xavier etc., and I) Sat and listened to the music. Sinead said she wants to start a band with me and couple of other women, how fun would that be!!! And Gon and Xacobe were talking about taking me fishing :) We must have sat there for 5 hours. I´m in heaven. I just can´t believe that everything I had hoped it would be like here it exactly how it is. Its a fantasy world I swear.