giving thanks

I ran into my friend marching in the annual day-after-Thanksgiving animal rights protest on Michigan Avenue.

it's friday!

I almost got a rat last week.

wedding prep

My oldest friend (since we were five years old!) got married over the weekend. This is my favorite photo of the weekend, when her mother was feeding the couple's dog from room service about an hour before the ceremony.

perch

Something strange about this part of Spain is that there are storks everywhere, and they build nests atop churches. On one stretch of highway, we even saw tall posts with metal baskets for them to build nests in the absence of tall buildings.

the other fair

After we ran with the bulls, we went further out from the center of Pamplona to see where there was a horse market going on. It was kind of intense. These horses got out of their pen and into the crowd and this guy is herding them back in by whacking them with this stick.



It made me sad but my friend assured me it was just the day that was going to be rough on them. Then they would be headed home with happy families in Basque Country.