de Espana! de Espana!

What a night to be in Spain! It is now just after midnight, everyone is tucked in their beds, and we can still hear the horns and shouts from the passing cars and pedestrians. What a game! The Spaniard at the front desk of our hotel recommended we try and get into an Irish tavern on the beach to watch the game...so we took a beautiful walk along the beach...

...and stopped to take a picture...

..and then headed into a tavern in which not only were we the only non-Spanish speaking people, but Zack and Zoe were the only ones there under 18. The natives were rowdy and ready for a futbol game!

Things got crazier as the night progressed - and we were thankful for a number of things...that Spain won, that we had on the right colors, and that Zack and Zoe had been appropriately trained at numerous crazy sporting events and tailgates. Although nothing could have prepared them for tonight, I can't say that they were really surprised by the madness either - which I consider a parenting success! This video was after one of the early goals... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAaGyHyMo8&feature=youtu.be (for some reason I can't get the links to work, but I think if you cut and paste it might!) We all had a blast - and enjoyed more ham and tomato sandwiches for dinner and great cerveza!

On the walk home, I took this cool picture of the casino next door to our hotel. It was a pretty awesome night...we're all excited to see what the next few will bring.

Chris presents at the conference tomorrow...keep him in your thoughts! The Z's and I know he'll knock it out of the park...as for us, we'll be on the beach :) XOXO, Benderz ps...all the pictures from the trip will be up on our shutterfly site, www.benderz.shutterfly.com/action asap