Saturday, November 21st 2009

After getting back from Santiago de Compostela and still getting over being sick for the second time this semester, I decided I wouldn’t go to a picnic that I had been planning with some friends on Saturday. I just felt like staying inside and resting. So I told Eric, and as I expected he would do he tried to pressure me into coming anyway. He even went so far as to offer to bring the picnic to my neighborhood, bit that seemed a bit extreme and the guilt worked, I could tell he was serious about coming and I didn’t want them to go to the trouble. We did move it to another park closer to my house that was more convenient for the majority.

We got there and then had to wait about 20 minutes for half the group to get there. Then we walked to the park, supposedly looking for the perfect spot. I was getting annoyed because we passed plenty of perfectly good spots to sit at and I though Eric should be more conscience of the fact that I was sick and tired. Before eating, Fernando and Eric said they had a skit for us that had to do with two super heroes with silly powers. It was slightly ridiculous but I wasn’t surprised, it was Eric and Fernando. Fernando’s power was to freeze people, and of course I was the one who got to be frozen. I was really starting to wonder if there was any point to the whole thing.

Eric started looking around for someone to “save” me. Suddenly I hear someone yelling and look up to see some blond guy running towards us. “Ok, now this is just ridiculous”, I thought. This “play” is not worth having arranged someone to hide in the bushes, who the heck is that I don’t know any blond guys here in Spain, OH MY GOSH. I couldn’t do anything bit stare as I realized it was my amazing boyfriend standing in front of me. “Yo la salvo.” “I will save her.”

I honestly didn’t recognize him until he was standing right in front of me. Even when I realized it was David, he still didn’t really look like himself. I continued staring in complete shock as he sat beside me. He felt like an impostor, my mind hadn’t really accepted that he actually there. I stared at him for another couple of seconds and poked him a few times to make sure he were real.

We did eventually eat and talked for a while. As far as being sick and tired, I was feeling much better! After a few of us went to Sol, walked around a bit and got some tapas for dinner.