Next destination...

Mr X and I are getting ready to head to our next destination on Saturday. We'll be making a quick trip to Spain's Canary Islands. We leave Saturday morning and I'm so excited for several reasons. First off, Spanish is the official language so there's a good possibility that we won't feel quite so dumb since Mr X is fluent. It will be nice (for at least one of us) to be able to understand what people are saying finally. Second, the weather is quite mild and so it will be much warmer there than it is here and I'm ready for some cozier weather. Third, the fact that the Canary Islands are so close to the coast of Africa allows me to pretend that I'm actually going to Africa instead of Spain...or maybe just Africa and Spain all at once. (No slight intended towards Spain in any way of course) But what I am looking forward to most of all us that I'm heading somewhere new that I haven't been to before.

So for those of you that don't know exactly where the Canary Island are located, here's a picture. I confess that I wasn't entirely sure where they were, I knew they were off the coast of Africa but I thought it was further north, very close to Spain.

(They are those tiny islands between Western Sahara and Morocco)

And this is the view from where we will be staying (on the island closest to the African coast).

Mr X and I didn't know we would be going someplace that wasn't freezing cold so I guess we'll be taking our long pants and sweaters with us because that's all we have. But from what I hear, there are a lot of "naturalist" beaches there so if all else fails we can just strip to our birthday suits and strut our newly acquired love-handles and saddlebags (at least in my case) all over those sandy beaches. (Just thank your lucky stars that you won't have to witness this atrocity. And don't worry, no pictures will record this awful event.) I will be taking my computer but I'm not entirely sure if we will have Internet access while there so if you don't hear from me after Saturday, we didn't have access.

Anyway, back to the present. I've got to get ready to go to the Christmas Market. (I'll fill you in tomorrow on that outing.)