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Martin: From Granada we drove down to the coast where Ruth finally met up with one of her first cousins, Angelita. Last time they were together was back in 1996 when we visited Spain and Adrian was only two years old then.

Me: A night of CURLING! What a great idea by Angie to get a group out for Curling. I've seen the sport in the Olympics but did not understand it. Now we "get it" and it's fun!

Here's one of our instructors throwing the rock while our sweepers (Matt & Amy) get ready to sweep the rock to a good place at the other end of the "sheet". There are 4 people on a team and each game is called an "End". There are 10 Ends in a professional curling match.

We had an hour of instruction (which included some history of Curling) and a couple hours of play. BTW: Curling started in Scotland. In this photo Amy is getting used to the very slick shoe (which you slide on to shoot your rock). The opposite hand has a balancing tool (or you can use a broom) to help yourself balance while you push off the starting block.

Each team member throws 2 rocks. While the one person is throwing the rock, two team members sweep and the 4th directs the thrower's aim and gives instruction to the sweepers. It's actually very exciting! And we became quite competitive. ;-)

Sweeping practice. Sweeping is harder than you'd think. You'd be out of breath after trying to help your rock slide further. "sweep, sweEP, SWEEP!"

Amy & Angie. None of us except Angie had done curling before. Angie grew up in Canada so she had skills. Thank you so much for the great idea to do this, Angie!!

Here's Angie throwing (nice form) and her sweepers Rochelle and Kata getting ready for action.

Team "Let It Go" inspired by you know what movie… FROZEN (haha). :-)

We had a blast & "The cold never bothered us anyway"! Wish that Bob could have been in town. :-( Definitely gonna plan another outing! PS: The Coyote Curling Club facility is only 10 minutes from our house (who knew)!?