related brothers.

After Lyndon left (a few weeks ago..) Dan and I romped about Spain arm in arm as all brothers do!  I took him on a small tour of good ol' Sevilla.  We went to Plaza de Espana and hung out with folks from Star Wars, got some sun and did laundry on the roof, drank little coffees, and went to see some flamenco.

We love visitors in general, but it was even more exciting having my brother there to hang out with!  I really enjoyed some good bro-time just catching up on life, love, and other mysteries.

but forrealskies, I loved hanging out with dan.  Emma and I have been missing family a lot lately (even more so now that they have come and gone..) and it is a breathe of fresh air to see familiar faces and just have a good time.  Dan is a light everywhere he goes.  Like everywhere in the world, Sevilla has thousands of "lost" and hurting people...  It is just more evident when we are in a place that is foreign to us or outside of our comfort zone.  I noticed it more when I first arrived in Spain and slowly turned a blind eye, but dan reminded me that people everywhere need the love of Christ regardless of what is apparent.

Tomando el sol

my little tourist.

Dan puttin moves on the Queen...

dan was wired after basically drinking pureed coffee beans

looking pensively off in the distance.

Don't look to closely....  but yes, my pants are starting to rip.......

right before the pants ripped...

Getting our monthly fix of flamenco!

After our night of flamenco and cruising the small streets of sevilla, we had to get home that night and pack our bags for our incredible road trip through southern france!!!!!

Abrazos y El Amor de Dios.

Invitado.

The month of March was a crazy one, but a good one.  3 of the 4 weeks were spent with folks coming to visit!  We had couchsurfers, friends, and family and traveled outside of Sevilla 1/2 the time everybody was here.  Eventually I'm going to get around to making a few photo albums on facebook rather than posting a million photos on the blog... but for now I'll keep posting a million photos...

Our first visitor was Melissa from good 'ol Tejas.  We hosted her for a night and in return she brought us some awesome Texas salsa that maybe lasted 2 days.  It was dee-lish-us.

 

I've actually grown a few inches since being in Spain...

Next up was a veryyyyy special visit!!  We had our breast frand Lyndon, or as I like to call her, Jean Claude Lyn-dan, come to visit us allll the way from Budapest, India... or Bolivia... or Ukraine... or wherever Budapest is... she came from there.  Although we had an incredible time with our friend, we felt a little bad that it rained the ENTIRE time Lyndon was here..... we had great plans for picnics and boat rides, but our time outside the apartment was always accompanied by an umbrella and warm jackets....  Either way, our time was still well spent hanging out watching movies, playing snake on her phone, walking around the wet streets, and of course eating lots churros/glorified funnel cakes with chocolate. 

Lyndon's welcome board.

lsakdjf;asdgfjioreudfjksliutoerjkl  Jean Claudeeee

So European, those two.

The only afternoon with 0 rain.

The 1995 Nokia model.  I beat Lyndon's snake score underwater and then threw the phone off a building and it still worked.

Lyndon after church.  She went cross-eyed from all the Spanish...

Lyndon makin' it rain in Plaza del Salvador.

Watching "The Town" illegally.  Who's who???? hehehehehe.

No more rain. No more rain.  No more rain.

Treating ourselves to a treat b/c of rain.

Lyndon making her gross carrot stuff..... with other gross stuff.  Emma liked it. 

 My favorite part about having guests is always taking them to eat churros.  I'll use any excuse to eat fried dough.

mmmmm fried heart attack... best eatin with a cup of chocolate.

 
If having Lyndon here wasn't fun enough, Dannnn came to visit us for his spring break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This video ought to show the excitement I was feeling upon his arrival in the Santa Justa Sevilla train station!!!!!!!  Emma and I were pumped to have them both here because it was like one big week long slumber party!

Related brothers throwin' back a cup of joe.

Lover's not in love.

Shortly after Dan's arrival we were quick to get out and have some fun!! So much to do with such little time.

 There are several pretty famous points of interest here in Sevilla and we had yet to see them!  We waited 6 months just so we could go and see it with our best friends!!

Hanging out in the Giralda.

Never scared.

Family pic.

In the cathedral searching for Christopher Columbus' body.

Only on rainy days does a mozart, rat-tail, bird's nest form.

On Lyndon's last day..... the sun finally poked its head out to say "What's up guys? Sorry I was gone for so long.  I hope you didn't mind being wet and cold and tired all the time from the crappy weather without me."

We were obviously overwhelmed with sunshine for atleast 10 minutes.

joyful.

Welp.... on Lyndon's last day here, the weather finally took a turn for the better.... but of course she had to go! 

Adios Lyndon!  We luz ewe here in Sevilla.  See you back in the good 'ol USA!

We were of course super sad Lyndon had to go because we miss our friends and family on a weekly basis, but of course we will see her when we return stateside.  Thanks for coming Lyndon!

Barcy: Part Docy

Once again, I'm going to try and just let the pictures do all the talking (maybe more pics with me and emma photo-shopped in the next post...  This is the second half of our trip to Barcelona!  We hit up the Barrio Gotic, Monjuic, the Picasso museum, more awesome fooood, Barceloneta and the beach, the Boqueria market, a niceee romantic dinnnnner for our 6 month anniversary (thank you) and Park Guell!!!!  We miss you, Barcelona.

Doing a little jig in the church square.

This is why emma wanted to come to barcelona.  Floating boxes of men everywhere....

Sooooo this photo I shot from inside my jacket....

this photo too... woooooooooops.

Best pizza in Barcelona.

Cutest girl with an ice cream in Barcelona.

Cutest guy who will probably have diabetes from eating too many delicious waffles covered in chocolate and ice cream in Barcelona......

just going for a walk.

askldfjiowergjkflv. 

On a hot date with the mrs.

mi amor.

We went to the top of Monjuic for an incredible view of Barca.

More Barcelona.

I definitely went blind after this pic.........

Me likey the markets.

I originally put this photo up for the obvious....  but then at second glance, what does "all for eat" mean?...

Raspberries on the beach.

Raspberries and bread.  the poor man's food.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

mmmmm.  Good thing it was 50 degrees outside, super windy, and about to rain or this guy might have needed clothes.  Also, I guess it's a lot easier to use the bathroom when you don't have to worry about unbuttoning your pants....

Parc Guell!!!

Basque food.  You pay per toothpick. 

Our awesome hosts!!!! They coooked an awesome dinner for us and took us out to dinner!!!!!!!!  It also looks like we are in the forrest....

adios troutschky.  adios Barcelona!!