Walking in a winter wonderland...

After a couple weeks of fun in Vienna it was time to head off to Barcelona to visit Heather, but first we had to go to a few Christmas markets... Steph and I had a great day making Christmas cookies and then went and had some punsch at the Rathaus, it was gorgeous out! We also went a different day with Kent and Amy to the Karlsplatz market, which is definitely one of my favorites. Thai punsch is the only one I really like, love the spice and burning lips!

Barcelona was great, well, what I saw of it, the BEST part of the trip was spending time with Heather, we went and visited a cool town about an hour away, saw some ruins, ate some tapas, talked... While we were in Barcelona we did much of the same, the weather was amazing! We went on some great runs, wandered around to amazing little tapas places, a champagne bar, Starbucks, cooking class, spent time talking and laughing and just relaxing. What a great city, I would love to live and train there. It was a much needed long weekend. I forget sometimes how nice it is to be around good friends, it had been over a year since we had seen each other last, but that didn't matter at all! Already looking forward to my next trip back in March.

Work is crazy, life is moving too fast and I feel like I am just caught up in all the craziness and not really enjoying the things I should be. I did just buy a ticket to go home for Christmas, so I'm really excited about that. Less than three weeks and I'll be home for the holidays.

Going to try to relax a bit and take advantage of the last few weeks before training officially starts up again. Which actually doesn't mean relax, it means having that extra glass of wine :-)