I made it!

Buenos Dias! I´m finally here, rested and sane again after thinking I would be stuck in the Madrid airport forever.

Flying here alone was an experience to say the least, but I got through it and only had to sit in a corner behind my suitcase and cry once.

The flight from ATL to Paris was fine. I stayed up the entire flight and watched movies. But when I got to Paris, I had 45 minutes to board my next plane to Madrid. Within 5 minutes of stepping off the plane, I made it to a huge line where I was basically the last person in it. Then some alarms started going off and every security guard came out and shut all the exits. Needless to say I started to panic. After sitting in line for 30 minutes I´d given up all hope. Then they reopened all the gate counters and started letting people through. Some really nice people from Athens let me go before them and I literally got my boarding pass, stamp on my passport and sprinted to my gate. It was as spastic as you can imagine. I couldn´t read any of the signs, the architecture of the airport itself was insane. Long story short, I missed my flight. Luckily, there was an hour layover until the next flight to Madrid, which I made. So now I can say I had a crouissant and a latte in France.

In Madrid I had a similar experience and had to make a couple calls home, but 6 hours later I made it to Ibiza to three happy little girls and their Mom. Carla(11), Elena(5) and Maria(5) -twins, and their Mom, Maria, have been the best. I´ll post pictures soon, but let me just preface them by saying it is beyond beautiful here. The aroma of the ocean and the town itself is indescribable. The house I´m living in is so picturesque, you might as well look in a magazine about Spain because it would be less than or equal to the house I´m staying in. Wow, could I be more modest?

Anyways, whenever my last bag with all my chargers and cameras get here, I´ll update. Until them, Maria is coming to to pick me up and we are going to buy presents for a birthday party that la niñas are going to this evening.

chao-chao!