I woke up early,if I didn't Father, Tom and Mary would have had a huge start on me. I'm ok with that as we knew we were all heading to Leon and would be together but I did want to walk early even though it is not natural to me. It was dark when we got started and I was in the typical back spot when walking with these three. We typically like to get about an hour or two under our belt before stopping for coffee. Today we eager for it, the sun was just coming up and they were all in front of me searching for trail (yellow arrows). It was funny as a small road went uphill they were all looking off to the left I saw a yellow arrow going up hill and alerted them to it. You could see the church steeple up the hill...in the most angelic voice I could muster I said to the priest, " the trail always leads you to the church......Father". At which he smirked and said in his Irish voice, " I was getting there but in a roundabout way.....sister". I love this group!
We arrived to Leon and checked into the Benedictine Convent for the night. A great place to stay. I LOVE Leon, I saw many faces I had not seen on a while. C from Canada and U from Germany. We walked around the town, window shopped...ate and drank great vino. My night would be sent on a local bar watching soccer with friends.
At 9:15 we went to a church service put on by the nuns, it was precious. we feared we might not get a spot on this place for the night at which time I joked with father that he certainly must have some pull...wasn't there some badge he could show...I mean he was a priest after all!!!!! He is hilarious and said they wouldn't believe him, at which point I have started to joke with him how do we know he really is a priest. A good nights sleep would be had, women were in one room and men in another, I assumed that meant I might have a good sleep and no snorers but some of these women s ores with the best of them.
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