When we woke up it was raining hard with thunder and lightening. We fed the angry mob and encouraged them to leave so we could clean! As we were cleaning it started snowing. WTHeck? Then Jesus dropped by. His older brother died last night. We are so sad for him.
We did some shopping for the new hospitaleros, who haven't showed up yet and then drove to Redecilla del Camino to check out a new albergue of a former hospitalero named Jose Manuel. Super nice albergue that can sleep ten. We then return to granon and see suzanna at the bakery. She has us get into some funny outfits and takes pictures. She and her husband are so nice. They gave us a bottle of zurrocapote which is a sweet cinnamon spiced red wine that is drunk during festivals.
By 5 pm no pilgrims. We might have a quiet night. The two new hospitaleros show up with a carload of food. I guess we did not need to shop earlier. There is going to be a Hospitalero training class this weekend and they are expecting a lot of folks. Glad we are going. Jesus comes by to let us know there will be mass today. Two pilgrims show up so we are not alone. We head down to mass and we go up for the pilgrim blessing, sine we will soon be walking. I cook my final spaghetti carbonara and Palma and I head to the bar to say good by to the old guys as well as Maria and Alberto. Tomorrow we go.
Thursday 31 March
Though we had a large amount of pilgrims last night, they were all up and out before 8. By 1000 we were done with our work and on to Santo Domingo for our last shopping trip with Javi. Our next stop was Redicillas del Camino to visit a new albergue run by a retired firefighter who had stopped by earlier in the week to drop off some fliers. Only 10 beds, 6 euros and extra for dinner and breakfast. He had a very unique clothes dryer - Cullen took a picture. Next stop - the Panaderia. Susana's husband wants to take photos of the three of us. Got us all in costume. Cullen is now friends with him on Facebook.
Only one Spanish couple with us tonight. He is quite the talker! A man named Paolo came in while we were having dinner. He will be attending Hospitalero training at the albergue this weekend. Speaking of hospitalero training, our replacements showed up at around 6 tonight with a carload of groceries for the weekend. We headed out to mass and they were just finishing up some prep work when we got back. I got really choked up at mass this evening. My favorite old woman wasn't there so I didn't get to say goodbye to her Fand as usual, Padre called the pilgrims up front for a blessing and though I don't know exactly what he was saying I heard him say "hospitaleros" several times.
Our replacements Pedro, a large Spaniard and Maria, an Italian woman are not a couple but they know each other and have been hospitaleros together. We were invited by the Spanish couple to go listen to some guitar playing and singing, but it's our last night and we'd like to say "adios" to the old men at the bar.
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