Update: L'Estartit, Spain

¡Hola! We just arrived in Spain and are loving the feeling of thawing out. It reached 60-degrees today (15.5C for any European readers). I found myself peeling off my sweater to bask in the sunshine coming in the front window. Ahhh... nice!

Apologies for the delay in blog posts. It's been a while since we've had affordable access to the Internet and our time spent with friends and family over the holidays was not the appropriate time to be spending copious amounts of time online. Internet prices can run in the range of 8-15 EUR per HOUR! Many places didn't offer a discount for multiple hours, makine a long run online impossible.

Everyone is doing well. We have tons of fun pictures and memories to share - will try to spend some time tonight updating the blog with the back-dated posts.

Some of the memorable stops:

• Christmas markets in Switzerland and Germany
• Beautiful extended Christmas with my host-family
• New Year's in Munich with friends (you think 4th of July fireworks at our house are bad, you haven't seen anything compared to this!) and celebrating Sophia's 3rd birthday at the permanent circus in Munich.
• Lugano, Switzerland - beautiful!
• Driving along the Italian Riviera - though I didn't take any pictures due to being overwhelmed with the beauty while at the same time scared to death of the narrow roads, cliffs, cyclists and sheer number of people out enjoying the sunshine!
• Visiting Stes Maria De La Mer, France, whose church is dedicated to the two St. Mary's and Sara, the Patron Saint of Gypsies.

On the personal front, the kids are growing at an alarming rate. Megan has started reading and tries to read sign posts and graffiti along the way. She doesn't care that it's all foreign languages - she's just happily putting sounds together. Sophia is working on going through her "Terrible Two's" at age 3... fortunately it's not a daily experience. Dan and I are healthy - Dan's learned the secrets to a mean fried rice and yummy pancakes. =) Life is good.