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Hola todo el mundo - Hello everyone!

So, I'm a little delayed with setting up the travel blog and posting to it. The delay is all part of the waiting game in Spain. It took a bit longer to get our internet service activated, but I actually didn't mind being "disconnected" for awhile, although I did miss my Facebook word games (Scrabble - sadly I can't play here because of incompatible versions or something, Word Twist, Wordscraper, Scramble). Waiting in lines, waiting for service, waiting in general is just part of life here, but it doesn't really bother me so much. Some of our Spanish friends seem more bothered by all the waiting for us. When we signed up for our cell phone service, I didn't realize that we had been waiting there and trying to get our service for an hour and a half plus until Antonio mentioned it. And the line in the grocery store didn't really bother me either until Luis mentioned that such a wait wouldn't happen in the U.S. He mentioned the efficiency of Wal-mart w...