Visitors

This weekend was a nice change of pace. My cousins wifes' sister (from Spain) came to visit from San Francisco. She is working at Stanford and UC Hayward on her PhD in Environmenal Science, so she will be here through August. I have known her pretty much all my life. Both my cousins hung out with her and her sister as kids, so when I spent the summers there, I too spent a lot of time with them.

So this weekend, she ventured on over to the see all the beauty and culture the city of Reno has to offer. Be sure to recognize the sarcasm there (unless you consider the strippers beauty and gambling an art). She is outdoorsy, so she appreciated Tahoe and having never been in the U.S., she also liked the western theme of Virginia City. After a long day of sightseeing, we went out to dinner where I ordered some pretty tasty fish and a honey sweetened, but oh-so-weak mojito. After agreeing that it was cold and that the casinos didnt sound appealing, we decided we'd head home and finish off the night with a bowl of popcorn and a movie. Appropriately, we watched Spanglish. I say this because she wanted us to speak to her in English so that she could improve her domination of the language, yet, I simply cannot get use to talking to her in anything but Spanish. Last time I had seen her, she spoke very little broken English.

Moving on. Jake wimped out about midnight, so we stayed up talking and catching up. She told me about all her travels, what she thought of the U.S. thus far (I will elaborate on that on my next post), school, money, religion, kids, etc.. Next thing we know, its 4am. YAWN....

If we are freezing, then whats wrong with the volleyball players?