Car saga, continued...

I'm pooped---just had a long skype call with Jody, and somehow it's nearly midnight, so I'm going to be quick.  Alec went out to get car insurance this morning at.... you guessed it, our bank--La Caixa--only to find out that in order to purchase insurance, we need international driver's licenses!  I guess we should have thought of that while we were still in the states.  But we didn't.  So we spent several hours calling around to figure out the fastest way to get them.   And it turns out that we need to send a bunch of paperwork back to the states.  We spent the afternoon getting passport-sized photos (again---we already did it for our residency cards), photocopying our licenses, getting a letter from our US insurance company, and packing it all in a DHL envelope to the tune of $45 plus whatever we spent at the Kinko's-type place to bribe our kids with sticker albums.   I should note that Alec did the lion's share of this, including staying at the Kinko's type place with the kids to finish up while I went off to a yoga class.

We are off to the Pyrenees for a vacation tomorrow, and will likely not have access to the internet, so I may not be able to post until we return on the 23rd.  Adios!