Spanish Driver's Licenses

Hello all :-)

We are in the process of furiously studying for the Spanish driver's license test. We knew we had to get one, but weren't too concerned and weren't thinking we needed to worry about it until we get back from Texas. But recently we've been hearing that it is quite serious if you get stopped without having one after you've lived in the country more than 6 months. For us, that will be Aug 17, the day we get back from Texas. So last week we started scrambling to get this thing scheduled and studied for so that we can take it before we leave.

One caveat - very few people that we know have passed this test - for some reason they make it extremely difficult. It is even difficult for Spanish speakers, but especially for not-so-great Spanish speakers like ourselves. YIKES!!

So we take the written test tomorrow at 12:30 our time and if we pass that, we will take the driving portion of the test next Wednesday. The written test is in (very badly translated) English, but the driving portion can only be done in Spanish. If we pass the written test tomorrow, we will somehow fit 5 hours each of driving instruction time in before next Wednesday. We (meaning I :-) ) practiced parallel parking for over an hour on Saturday - and YES I am very proud of this particular parallel parking job :-). But who knows what else they are particular on that we may or may not do right :-).

So, we would really appreciate your prayers tomorrow!! We really want to comply w/ the law here and really want to get this taken care of now.

Much love,
Becca

The Running of the Bulls

As many of you know, there is an event in Pamplona, Spain each year called the Running of the Bulls. It is actually a festival to San Fermin, and runs for a whole week - so they actually run with the bulls every day from July 6-14. They show it on TV each morning at 8. We've become quite into watching it - to prove the point: Jason just woke Katie up and her 1st question was "Is the running of the bulls over?" :-)

Anyway, these people who do this are CRAZY. No two ways about it. Crazy and foolish. Since the commentary is all in Spanish, we don't understand the specifics of who got hurt and how... but the video speaks for itself!

Here's a mediocre recording from the station we've been watching - I think this was the 3rd "encierro" last Wed. Enjoy your taste of Spain :-)