Hello everyone! Today I am doing a quick update on what's been going on.
If you have been following me on Facebook at all I've been working on a painting of Christ and some children. That has been really fun, it's made me think more and be more creative while using my time a little bit better.
This week I just started my classes again. I was nervous but the classes have gone really well so far and I have a new potential student that I've been talking to.
We just bought tickets to go to Rome! My parents are going to be coming in the middle of December and we are going to go explore the world! I'm so excited to go travel a little bit more.
So, last week we went to Madrid. Last week was Matthew’s fall break and we had so much fun. for the first part of the week we sat at home and we had what we called “PJ day”. This was the best day ever!!
First we prepared the night before by making sure that we had all of the food that we needed and we set up pillows and things around the house because, obviously, when you have a PJ day the entire floor of your home is lava and so you have to figure out ways to get from room to room. Which is what we did which was so fun. There were pillows lining the floor to the kitchen so I could go into kitchen island where the whole kitchen words one big island safe Zone. We eventually made the bathroom an entire safe zone because at first the bathroom floor was lava but that started to get tricky and we had to get very creative moving around in there. But we decided that eventually the volcanic lava built up so much in the bathroom became an entire Island itself. Haha. We watched so many movies that day and, might I add we watch the entire Twilight series. And for the record, that was not my idea. It was my sweet husbands idea to watch the entire Twilight series because, and I quote,” You know what? I actually am in a romantic movie mood, like sappy romance.” I never thought I would hear those words come out of my husband's mouth. But they did and I took advantage of them. We were up till 5 in the morning watching all these movies. It was so much fun.
The next couple days we went to Madrid and this was fun but it was also frustrating at the same time. There was a miscommunication between us and the people that we were staying with. We stayed with some people through Airbnb. They didn't understand that we are coming in early in the day and they weren't able to meet us until in the afternoon so we ended up having to carry our luggage around Madrid. That was kind of difficult and frustrating because we couldn't do as much as we would have loved to that first day. But we did end up going to the Lush Spa that is in Madrid which was amazing! I was so stressed out and frustrated because we had our luggage to carry everywhere and the train ride was long and we didn't get enough sleep and I woke up really early and everything was just not going like I wanted it to. But we went into the spa, seriously, all of my frustrations melted away. The next thing was awesome but also kind of a frustration was, it rained every day that we were there especially the last day. Because the cold and rain, we didn't get to do and see and walk around as much as we would have liked but we did end up going to an art museum that had some of Pablo Picasso's work, which was really interesting. But that's about the extent of exciting things we saw. Another thing that we did that was really funny was we ordered Chinese take out at like 11 o'clock at night and the guy that came was so grumpy. Which I don't blame them because we didn't actually get the food until almost 1:00 am, but when he came to the door He rang the bell witch was so loud and then he couldn't figure out how to open the door because they locked it and I didn't know it was just a big disaster at 1 in the morning and I was afraid that everyone was going to wake up but luckily nobody did which was nice or at least we don't know if anybody will go up haha.
Anyway other than that life has been great. Same old same old. I've been seeing a lot more of the members since I am the secretary in the Relief Society and we have meetings that I attend all the time plus I'm helping with the activity on Saturday. It's. great!
I love you all hope you're having a good day.
Love,
Melissa
