Dear Mom,

Donostia-San Sebastián-- the first time
These pictures are few because it was after my camera was stolen, so these are Priscilla's pictures:

We were there for the 58th San Sebastián Film Festival.  Pretty cool, no? 

The weather was pretty crappy, but we still had a ton of fun. 

We tried to look glamorous.  See??

Sadly, my camera was stolen shortly thereafter, so I have no more photos from that weekend of myself.  SO SAD.

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Donostia-San Sebastián-- Take 2 (Priscilla´s Birthday fun)
We went to San Sebastián again because, yes, the food is just THAT good.  Good fortune followed us this time (or better planning) and we were met with gorgeous weather.

Many photos stolen from Priscilla.  Yet again many photos are my own.  Can you tell the difference?

我們那一天一大早就出發了.  7:30 a.m. 的客運.  太棒了.  天起超漂亮的!

我們到以後當然要吃早餐, 對不對?

 我, Priscilla, Simona (另外一個室友), Jesus (Simona 的朋友).

記不記得我寫的卡片嗎?  我就是坐在這裡寫給你們的.  好漂亮喔!!!

 我和Simona. 他22歲耶! 跟哥哥一樣... 可怕.

 這變成我的FACEBOOK的照片.

風景...

啊... 對啦.  要上去到那麼高的山上看風景要坐一個"funicular" . . .

一群小朋友也跟著上去

Funicular 就在這裡面...

 頭髮好亂喔...

OK  看完風景了!  去海邊了!

 Charlie's Angles . . . sort of.

曬完了... 3PM.  開始要找中餐...

...可是餐廳已經關門了.  最後找到的... 不好吃.  要等到晚上吧!

到那時候呢 . . . 我們就只能走來走去... And I GOT MARRIED!!!!!  To a BASQUE MAN!!!

Ok, maybe not a man.  And maybe not a Basque....

 晚上... 新買的裙子...

 You know how I told you that there would be two large men who would be protecting us?  That would be Thomas (far left, in the orange) and Kevann (right back, in the yellow).  Too bad they're not particularly reliable . . . (Thomas texted me at 2pm asking me when we were leaving, I texted him back saying that we had been there for 4 hours already.  We lost Kevann somewhere in the morning... and then again in the middle of the night.  Both of them had phone trouble, too.  Thomas had no battery left-- Kevann had no money left... SIGH!  BIG MAN-BABIES!  :D  Love them both regardless, though.  They made the night fun!  It just... took us the whole day to finally meet up with them...)

 Our second stop were for the MOST TENDER BEEF CHEEKS in the WORLD.  I would die happy if this was part of my final meal.  In fact, this beef was one of 3 reasons why we came back to San Sebastian a week after being robbed... the first reason were "brochetas de gambas"-- skewered shrimp-- which have got to be the MOST delicious shrimp ever in my life....  By the way, the beef cheeks are a little bit like 媽媽's 紅燒牛肉...But, dare I say, even more tender...

I am ridiculously happy. Can you tell?  (The short Indian guy in the front was someone Jesus met in his hostel... from Australia.  Didn't speak a lick of Spanish.  Poor fool.  Lucky he met with us to get some great grub...)

 And this picture does not do it justice--  Foi Gras with Apple compote... the texture of ice cream... the taste of heaven.

I'm drooling now.

You should be, too.

 Roommate love!

 We went to Herria Bar, which is the bar that is notorious as a meeting place for the Basque separatist terrorst-rebels (the ETA).  They're crazy.  Thomas wanted to go.  Soooo... we stopped by.  And had this nasty local drink that tasted like licorice.  Yeecchhh...

PS, I had to get permission to take this picture of Thomas.  Which was allowed only if no bartenders or workers were included in the picture.

 I don't think I had been that happy in a long, long, long time.

 One of our last stops...

Happy (belated, now) Birthday, Priscilla!  Twin sister from a different mother and best traveling buddy ever!!!  <3 

And the next day, the two of us headed off to France!  ... St. Jean-de-Luz!!!