Spain Baby... Spain

Jetlag is a very strange phenomenon. It is so odd that at this time is is already 9:05pm. I'm still feeling a bit of the laziness that comes from traveling outside of my own time zone. But this is no about that... I wanna talk about the past week outside the USA.

It was a very anticipated day when Olshine and I rode to the Cincinnati airport to caught our flight to Rome, Italy. After a quick stop to Gold Star Chili (SO GOOD!) we boarded a plane for a 9 hours flight to Rome. It was a bit uncomfortable trying to sleep on a flight for that long. We watched "Premonition" (terrible movie). It took us a bit of time to find our next flight on Alitalia to Barcelona, Spain. It was nearly 800 degrees on the plane cramped full of languages and faces that were very unfamiliar to me. I was so excited to finally get to our destination. what a great opportunity Olshine allowed me to have in joining him to visit a CIU student on internship and also to do a bit of youth ministry speaking and consulting. I mean how often do you get to go to Spain?? Once we finally landed in Barcelona, I instantly fell in love with the country. The people are so warm and friendly. The land is beautiful and different. I love Spain! We lost our baggage in Barcelona somewhere. Me for 4 days and Olshine for 5... think about it. Pretty long time. I don't know where my bag went, but I'm pretty sure it was hundreds of miles away. Asia perhaps. Why not... I've never been. the highlight of the arrive was when Olshine and I discovered that the car reservations we had were messed up and so we were upgraded for free... twice... to a BMW! Yes I said it. So Olshine and I rode around Spain for a week with a GPS system and a BMW. It was rough let me tell ya. More to come.