we played in Madrid last thursday... and we lost. it was close and then after halftime the just slipped right out of our hands. the team we were playing was one of the most physical teams we have played here. it was kind of nice...reminded me of college ball. so because of the holiday all last week.. we had friday, saturday and sunday OFF from basketball, crazy considering we are right in the middle of season. but oh well... 

so sam and i booked a rental car for the long weekend. and there are a lot of manual cars here, so we made sure to ask for an automatic. after walking around downtown Bilbao for about 45 min we finally found the car rental place and did all the paper work... then we double checked to make sure that its not a stick and well it was. so no rental car for us.... we had to adjust our weekend plans a little but we still enjoyed ourselves. 

we did some holiday shopping in Bilbao and really enjoyed ourselves. i have been planning on buying Louis Vuitton purse for a while now.. so i gave myself an Christmas gift early! i am so excited :)