The Water Buffalo is Back for Another Day

Greetings to you all. More like greetings to you both.

The Old Water Buffalo surived another day. I know that some of you were betting against that but you lose I won.

We had a day that was fantastic. As I write this the old buffalo is very tired. I'll tell you why.

The day started out with an early breakfast. (Prior to breakfast Mrs. S and I tried to sneak to Star Bucks as Austin is against us going there) Guess what they are not open at 8:00 AM here so no luck. That is the last disapointment of the day.

After breakfast at the hotel we used the Seville bike system to ride to the river, Maria Lusisa park and then to the 3rd largest Cathedral in the world. Met folks from Holland on the ride and had a pleasant chat. (Dawn's favorite moment of the day....riding our bikes through narrow, curving cobblestone streets while locals were starting their day...and the church bells were ringing above us!)

We then met Austin's roommate at a coffee shop and had a tour of the Cathedral. It was, as you can imagine very cool. We walked up a ramp that I thought would never end to the top. The reason that it was a ramp instead of stairs is so that they could get horses to the top. The Water Buffalo was sucking wind at this point. Easy prey but avoided the bad guys again.

We then went to the summer palace of the king and toured it. Wow. It was quite the place. After the tour we went to a cafe and had lunch. We had Quail egg tapas, at least some of us did. I noticed that some one ate around the eggs. She will deny this fact.

After lunch we again road bikes and went and looked over a bull ring. It was a very nice stadium that must hold 30,000 folks. They were having a fight that day so we could not tour. Next we road the bikes to a cafe for ice cream.

As you can imagine the old buff was getting a little sleepy by this time. We all took a siesta. It was the best 1.5 hours of sleep I've ever had.

While Austin was still sleeping, the buff and Mrs. S decided to try to sneak to Starbucks once more. When we went out it was crazy. Right next to our hotel. I mean right next door a soccer game was going to take place. The staduim holds approx 50,000. The streets were jammed. It was a wild scene. We got to Starbucks by the way and the brewed coffee machine was broke. We went back and woke Austin and went to the game. Crazy. Seville won 3-0.

Next Austin took us to a professional flamencao dance. We sat in a very small room and watched some very talented people. Although they did not perform the weinie snap like Uncle Jon. After this dance we went to Austin's favorite place for dinner and more flamenca. We rode our bikes back to the hotel, well past midnight, and stopped to visit with 3 spanish westies!

We are now putting the Old Buff down for a long needed sleep. What a day.

Tommorow more from Rome. God Bless.