Sunday, April 20th "Semana Santa Recovery"

...they are seasonal visitors thank god. I was unable to update the page for most of last week - busy with Semana Santa activities. It rained the first 3 days, so on Wednesday every Sevillano plus each and every tourist decided it was finally safe to leave their homes. Thus Wednesday, while fun, was also a nightmare for making your way around the city. It was on this day as well that I swore I would be elsewhere next year during this week. The first day was a little like hell rather than a day of holy week. After another day I got my second wind, and became more and more used to fighting through the people. We quickly learned the advantages of arriving an hour and a half in advance, canned beer and a small cooler. Thus after Wednesday we saw a lot of Christ and the Virgin Mary floating around the city. Thursday night (or Friday morning) we watched several pasos, returning at 5:30am to eat dinner/breakfast. I took way too many pictures - what you see in the photo album is a small sampling of what I came back with. The joys of a digital camera...

Spent much of the day today playing with dreamweaver, and plan to do some major changes to the site in the next few days. Will try to keep the site clean, and not full of tricks and clever coding that drives people crazy. Although I am tempted to make everyone wait while my Flash animation loads...

Links for today:

USresolve.com - racism, xenophobia and paranoia wrapped in the flag and patriotism.

Thanks George!