Week 2 - waiting for not much

Sorry about the delayed Week 2 post - we've been a band of Gypsy's lately. Our squatting with the Grandparents continued, 1st half of the week with Cindy's and the second half with Dan's. Even though the sole purpose of sticking around was to (hopefully) receive everyone's Visas, we were able to spend some more quality time with the families which was great.

The end of the week was JUDGMENT TIME. We headed east from Columbus to spend the night in a hotel in western Jersey (Stanhope - aka SPAINhope, NJ to be exact - picture Barcelona surrounded by Superfund sites) Thursday. This was so we could get our bright and shiny faces to the Spanish Consulate Friday morning to pick up any and all documents that may be there. We headed to Manhattan and entered the 5th portal to hell (aka the Spanish Consulate) @ 10am to find out that Cindy's and the girls' Visas had not arrived and, BETTER YET, the Spanish government only approved Dan's Visa for 3 months! YIPPEE! After some questioning and weak answers from the Spanish authorities we put our tails between our legs, spent some time in FAO Schwartz (NO MONEY SPENT!) and drove back to State College. Here we spent a few nights, got our bags, and basically came to the conclusion that we were going, regardless of the circumstances!



Once again, the additional time spent with friends was great. We were able to have dinner with friends and eat some delicious SWEET Spanish-themed cookies (thanks KA aka MS), do breakfast with the Youmans @ the Corner Room (traditional kids wink pic shown) and say some goodbyes again.












Sunday, the 14th of September, we headed to Philly to fly out. Regardless of all the garbage that we went throught to get our "paperwork" we were excited to finally head to Spain (the objects blocking out the sun behind K&A are our bags). We'll let you know what happens.