#6 -- If this is pueblo life, I'm leaving the city.

Today I went to Alonso's pueblo, Dehesilla de Calamon.  Like usual, his mom made us delicious food (pata negra pork, patatas fritas, ensalada, pan, cerveza, bizcocho, pizza, and cafe), we ate outside in the beautiful weather, and talked about  how different life in Spain is from the rest of Europe.  Then we played with his crazy-protective-lion dog Pio, washed his car, played some chess, and had a chupito taste-test (manzanilla, menta, jerez, limoncello).  Interactions with his parents are easy and comfortable -- the key to everything is just friendliness and smiles.  But my favorite part of the day was when we went for a walk at dusk in the countryside.  I looked for flowers for Melky, (all the flowers grow thorns to protect their fruit from the animals in summer), everything disappeared from the horizon and there was just the sky, then you see the seams holding the heavy clouds straining and breaking and suddenly it is pouring thick drops of rain and we are sprinting home.  Then the rain stops and we see both ends of a rainbow, his house is in the middle, and we know that it is the right place to go to and then leave from.