Busy busy

I've had the best weekend in ages but now I'm completely exhausted. Em's friend Tamara came to visit so we got to do heaps of cool stuff. On Wednesday, we finally climbed the mound/hill/mini mountain in Logrono. It took us less than an hour to get up the top, despite it looking so high and scrubby. We were going to have a picnic at the top but there was no wind cover and it was freezing so we moved down a bit but the ground was covered in prickly plants and things and it was very uncomfortable. We moved down a bit more and by this time we were practically at the bottom anyway. But someone had grown a vineyard on the hill so we sat in it and ate.

Quique, one of the students going to UTS next year, had organised to drive us to a wine museum so we met him at the uni at 9 am on Friday. The museum also had a bodega and the most amazing views ever. The photo on the left was one of the views you get of the vineyards behind the museum walls. They also have a crazy corkscrew collection and some original Picasso paintings, amongst other things. We got a free glass of wine at the end but I didn't like it that much. (Photo: Em, me, Mel and Tamara).

We then went to see a hotel designed by the same architect who designed the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Very interesting, if hideous. Absolutely didn't go with the backdrop at all. And the town it's in is practically a ghost town. We walked through it for half an hour and saw three people at most. I have no idea why anyone would want to stay there.

That night, Javier (not the one who went to UTS, a crazy guy who likes to hang out with international people) invited us to his parents' house in Arnedo and we had the biggest dinner imaginable. I swear I ate my body weight in food. They had a fire and a fire oven so his parents roasted potatoes, garlic, chicken drumsticks, chicken wings, pork ribs, pig snouts, mushrooms, eggs, some other kind of meat and apples and we also had bread, salad, homemade marinated capsicum, brownies and tiramisu (it was Tamara's birthday). And lots of wine, coke, champagne, beer and a homemade berry liquour. Afterwards we went to the natural hot springs. There are four temperatures: very hot, quite warm, comfortable and freezing. It was all outdoors so we had the mountains and stars in the background. Luckily the only light came from the moon because I was so bloated from the food I'm glad no one could see me.