Trip 17: Palma de Mallorca

We were really lucky to take a cheap Easyjet flight to a Spanish beach this week to celebrate Christina's 35th Birthday!  It was a very culturally interesting experience, and relaxing at the same time.

Some interesting cultural highlights from a couple days in Spain:

1. "Speedos" outnumber attractive people by about 4 to 1.

2. Swimsuits are optional if you are under age 10 or so.

3. However, swimsuit tops can be removed at any age.

4. The hotel had welcome books written in 5 languages, and we met some Swedes, Germans, Brits, and locals.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes for Christina.  It was a nice break to enjoy some of the benefits from an international assignment:

Trip 16: "Bank Holiday" Weekend!

The UK has something cool called a Bank Holiday.  For Americans, it is a random day off.  The May Day Bank Holiday is the first Monday in May.  We took advantage and took the girls to a beach in Wales on Sunday.

They had a blast, but it was 53 degrees (oF) and windy.  Jeryn picked a bunch of dead crabs, none of them fortunately ended up in our luggage (Uncle Jim and Kirk).

Hope all is well.  See everyone in July when we are back.  Until then, enjoy the random picts:

The road signs in Wales are impossible to read.  Hearing Welsh spoken is absolutely incredible.

The road signs start in English.

Then they transition to English first; Welsh second.

The further you go, they transition to Welsh first, English second.

Finally, it is Welsh only.  Which means if you are American, you will be completely lost without a GPS (or SatNav as it is known here).