It's May -- Hurra hurra hurra!

It's been ages since I updated the blog.

This blog entry will just be a short one, but I'll give you a few hints on what's to come in a longer and more elaborate blog entry (with pictures) next week. By the way, the summer has finally arrived, and the weather is gorgeous now. Had my first swim in the non-heated pool today. Refreshing and luuuvly!! :)

Here are some highlights in reversed chronological order:

* Got a new haircut today -- cut off at least 10cm of my long and heavy hair. It's so much easier now as the swimming pool season has started! (The hairdresser I usually go to didn't want to cut off my hair, she said it would be too big. So I went to Karol and Fiona's hairdresser, and he did it straight away.)

* My mum and auntie (tante Marit) are visiting! Lovely to have the two sisters here. We're talking, drinking wine, laughing a lot, and having fun! Went to the market today, and all of us did some solid shopping. (Even though I promised I would never go to the market again..) We're meting my dad and his friends from the tartar club today. They've had a club since the good old days (1987) when all of us were neighbours in Brumunddal. Now the five men are spending five days in Marbella cycling and enjoying the local wine. Got a text from my dad earlier today; they'd cycled from Marbella up to Istán via Monda and back to Marbella. Very impressive!!

* I'm staying another year in Spain!!! Feel very happy about it!

* Went to a village outside Córdoba for a colleague's 30th birthday a couple of weeks back. Here's a picture of me and Elaine on the Plaza de la iglesia where the local kids played a game: they were basically picking oranges and lemons from the trees and throwing them all around. Funny!

* Had two lovely Easter holiday weeks. My friend R. visited the first week. Some of the most amazing things we experienced were Ronda and the Semana Santa procesiónes in Málaga. Unfortunately we missed António Banderas. My sister, her husband and the kids visited the second week, and we enjoyed the pool, the beach, and each other. It was great to spend a whole week with the four of them here in Spain, and fantastic to have some quality time with my lovely niece and nephew!

Pictures from the Semana Santa and Ronda.

Off to a tapas night in Marbella now with my dad and his friends, and my mum and my auntie. Enjoy the lovely month of May, dear friends and family!