We boarded the airplane quickly as Arturo informed us that the seats on the plane were first come first serve. We all got window seats. The flight was 45 minutes. The plane magazines were in Spanish and English and we all took them because they were informative. We landed in Lanzarote and were greeted by a whole host of Rotarians. There was Wolfgang, Knute, Raphael, Alfredo (part of the GSE inbound team that came to Greenville), Oto. More on all of them later. We headed outside and found out that we were going on a tour of the city in a rented bus they the Rotarians had obtained for our stay in Lanzarote. Knute, a Norwegian military vet who retired to the Canary Islands after many holidays here with his wife (we have only been in Europe for 2 days and we are already calling vacations holidays), was our chaffuer for the day. Raphael, a former architect/industrial designer turned Securities trader with an MBA, was our tour guide and told us all about the islands and it rise from a fishing village to a agricultural center and now a tourist destination. According to Raphael, the greatest number of tourists that visit the Canaries each year come from Germany, England and Ireland. We circled the islands and saw Hotel Las Fariones, the first hotel built on the islands in which Raphael helped with the design work and then we stopped at the second hotel built on the islands and saw the plant life that grows in the middle of the hotel. 
This was designed by a famous artist who we are promised to be taught about later in the week. We ended our tour by being dropped off at our host family’s home.
Chris and I are staying with Ventura Acuna and Nelly (su esposa). The house is a mansion and Chris and I have the entire bottom floor to ourselves (to include the kitchen, two bathrooms, a bar, a swimming pool and open pit barbeque). We amazed at Ventura’s collection of every canned drink known to man…and promised that we would send back some from America.
We were set up in our room by Bea (hija de Ventura). She speaks English extremely well and is flying to New York this week for the youngest sister’s graduation from some kind of medical school. We ate some lunch with Ventura – cheese and Spanish ham sandwich and una cerveza. The van came and picked us up before we finished lunch and we were off to be baptized…
This was designed by a famous artist who we are promised to be taught about later in the week. We ended our tour by being dropped off at our host family’s home.Chris and I are staying with Ventura Acuna and Nelly (su esposa). The house is a mansion and Chris and I have the entire bottom floor to ourselves (to include the kitchen, two bathrooms, a bar, a swimming pool and open pit barbeque). We amazed at Ventura’s collection of every canned drink known to man…and promised that we would send back some from America.
We were set up in our room by Bea (hija de Ventura). She speaks English extremely well and is flying to New York this week for the youngest sister’s graduation from some kind of medical school. We ate some lunch with Ventura – cheese and Spanish ham sandwich and una cerveza. The van came and picked us up before we finished lunch and we were off to be baptized…
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