Corrie has been writing arts-related Spain crap on her personal blog at Fat Ballerinas. If you’re all artsy-fartsy and stuff, go read her vapid ramblings! (I suspect I sleep on the couch tonight)

Surprise! Our apartment isn’t the size of a closet!

We were pleasantly amazed to see that our new living arrangements for the next 6 months are actually spacious, and super spiffy. Our new address is:

Carrer de Vallfogona 7, 2:2

08012 Barcelona, Cataluña

España

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Ahh… the thrill of international travel. The excitement of knowing you will soon be in a foreign country, but first you have to get there. Wednesday morning started at the Sanctuary Resort to a lovely wake up call at 5:30am and the sudden realization that I had had too much to drink the night before. Hangovers are bad enough without the prospect of flying.

Large bottle of water in hand, Jason and I found our way to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (thank you Dave!). With six pieces of luggage in tow, we found the line for American Airlines (our connection to Chicago for Aer Lingus) about 2 miles later we found the end of the line. Almost 2 hours and 10 feet later, we had a stroke of luck. The guy in front of us was on the same flight and was also catching an international connection, and he was jumping line. So we followed…..(at this point I should mention it is about 25 minutes before our flight is supposed to take off). The counter was taking all international travelers priority and within 5 minutes we had our tickets and luggage checked in.

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