Visitors... :-)

 So... it's been a while since my last post, so time to bring everyone up to date!  The last week+ has been really busy as we've first gotten ready for, and then bagan recieving visitors!  First, our friends Julie & Darell from California arrived last week.  We did the typical local walks around Estepona, visited the orchid garden, etc, and then drove over hill & dale into the mountains to Ronda.

When we got to Ronda, we realised there was some kind of holiday going on (it was "Andalucia Day," celebrating the formation of the semi-autonomous state in 1980--- who knew??!), so everything was much busier than we've ever seen it before... but we still found a cute little cafe for coffee & pastries a bit off the beaten track.  We then headed out into the countryside to a spot that I've ridden my bike by several times, but never gotten the chance to stop for a hike at-- a deep gorge near Montejaque out to an early 20th century flood-control dam and the Cueva Hundidero, an impressive cave that drains the valley and the river passes under a mountain to re-emerge about 2 miles away to the south.  The river was dry while we were there, but it's pretty impressive even when dry!

We didn't actually go into the cave very far (that required permission from the local parks department, plus proper spelunking gear ;-), but it was still impressive!!

After Darrell & Julie headed off to Granada, our friends Tosca and Jim from Cazenovia arrived the next day :-)  They are here now, enjoying some nice weather after leaving central New York with about a foot of snow on the ground.  We went out for tapas downtown last night, and are looking forward to making some local fish for dinner tonight!

Finally, I'm making good progress with my sketching as Norma continues to work 20 hours+ per week making phone calls etc. for her ongoing development work for SU.  Here's another example of my latest work with digital sketching using "Sketchable" on my SurfacePro...

That's all for now...

Salud! :-)