FaceTime

This afternoon Neve sent me an email and a text that she was in a small custodial town called, Zubiri.  Her final destination for the day was to be Larassoana, but her fellow Pilgrims walked ahead and reserved the last bed in Zubiri.

Once there, she found a local restaurant with free Wifi and finally had a chance to use her new iPad3 with FaceTime.  I was working on my laptop finishing up a conference call and was able to chat face-face with her while she sat at the bar.   My 3 sons were able to visually converse with her without any pixelation degredation or lagging voice to video interference.  The sound was clear, until it began raining over there and all the Pilgrims started piling into the restaurant chatting and began singing songs.... It reminded me of the time Neve and I were in Southwest France and started hearing the chants and songs of excited soccer fans from our tent in the wee early morning hours (excuse me... 'futbol' fans)

She introduced us to about 6+ Pilgrims and they all looked in great spirits.  It must be a rush to have various international people congregate to fulfill a common goal that thousands of people have done over a 1000 years.... How exhilerating!

I can see why her spirits were up, especially after that jaunt over the Pyrenees Mountains.  She didn't even mention anything about her feet or blisters.... (I'll give props to those hybrid crosstraining/running Brooks shoes that she opted for over her hiking boots!)  Although, I did notice  her nose was a bit shiny red from 3 days of sun.   (Note to Neve:  use that nice full brim hat from REI and more sunblock :-)

The FaceTime worked like a charm and she was fully enlightened about my homeschool itinerary for the boys and how everyone was doing sans Mama.

She said the earplugs worked like a charm the night before. Actually, she said it worked so well they she slept way late and they had to wake her up.....

Dormir bien, mi cansado peregrino!