Some Photos

I'm at the USO in Ft. Worth, the flight got delayed about an hour to go home ... I just want to be home. I've been up for 23 hours now.

Flight went well, watched several movies. I've eaten more junk food today than I generally do in a 6 month period.

Thanks to everyone who followed and read the blog. It's been a great trip.

Here are some pics from the past few days when I wasn't able to post any:

St. James had a rough day. Haha.

The HUGE incense thing.

4th of July in the square.

That's the beach Noah and I went to.

Last night in Spain, watching Spain beat Germany in the World Cup semi finals. L-R, me, Noah, Alaska, Atlanta, England (I usually call people by where they are from. I learned very few names.).

Botafumeiro

The boys’ trip to Santiago happened to land on a Saint James Holy Year, which means there are a lot more people (not so great) and the “botafumeiro” is swung at the pilgrim mass each day (very neat). “Botafumeiro” is a Galician word for censer. The Santiago botafumeiro is a HUGE censer that requires a team of eight men to swing it. Censers are often used at high masses to symbolize prayer rising to heaven and to help create a sense of solemnity. The extra large botafumeiro of Santiago also helped with the stench of hundreds of pilgrims who had been hiking for many days during the centuries of the Middle Ages … when showers weren’t so readily available!

The Santiago Botafumeiro in Action

Let my prayer be incense before you. -Psalm 141:2a