Monday - June 17th

Monday was crazy! Once again I left for work at 7:30 and came home at 10:30. During the day, we finally got our computer systems working again as they had been down all ofThursday and Friday effectively crippling us. We had three days work and it was nice to finally have something to do all day! We also had a new summer hire who will be working for the tourist season to help alleviate the work load. We also had another evening event. This time the event was a little more prestigious.

The Ambassador finishes his tour of duty next week and is paying his respects to different areas of Spain. Monday he was in Andorra and Barcelona and that evening was a big shin dig. Ambassador, Consul General, President of Catalunya, the President of Parliament, the Alcade of Barcelona (like a more important version of the Mayor), the Minister of the Economy, etc. We spent all day prepping, news networks were there, a pretty big deal. I accompanied the Parliamentary President for the evening and made sure she had everything she needed, helped with some odd man jobs, and was in charge of flowers for the evening. It went quite smoothly, and this time I was finally able to track down something not alcoholic…some Pepsi! Though it was in a champagne glass to make it that much more sophisticated. I do wish we had real food at these events! The Consul and Ambassador both spoke, we had a harpist for live music, and Gwen Perry sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow (the Ambassadors favorite song). Anyway, I made it home exhausted.