American in Spain

One of the first thing most visitors to our humble home say is, “So you guys got something against lamp shades, or what?” Our house still has the original light bulbs hanging from wires popping out of holes in the ceiling that the original builder left. And all the previous owners have shared our apathy about remedying the situation.
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Finally! One month after the wedding, and the blogging from the wedding and honeymoon has come to an end! Whew!
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What a bizarre coincidence. I just searched Flickr for the word “restaurant”. Could there be a more common word? In fact, I have a theory, from my limited European travels, that it’s the word that’s most similar across many languages. Anyway, the second picture returned was this one:
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Flickr just scared the crap out of me. I just went to my Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikrasmussen/, and saw this:
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I took this picture last time I was in Mondragon, in Grandpa Ramón’s house. When I was in the bathroom, I noticed this strange character in the corner, sitting in a wooden chair. To see him better, I moved his arm, which pivoted up into this rapper pose.
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When I was uploading my frame breaking work to Flickr the other day, and placing it in the appropriate groups, I found this incredibly awesome picture:
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As I’ve been going through my old posts and converting them to use Flickr for all image hosting, I’ve found some old photos that I had forgotten about that I really love. I thought I’d re-post a few here for you.
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I’ve been debating for a while how to, and whether or not to, switch to host all of my photos on Flickr.
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A couple Sundays ago, Marga and I went out for a few drinks. She got so entranced in her sun worship that I was able to snap this picture without her knowledge.
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I’ve flown into New York airports at least a dozen times, and I’ve never come close to being as lucky as my buddy, Hubbers, was for this photo.
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