buen camino!

after several hours of beautiful walking a group of grade 5 or 6 age children passed us by today - they were so encouraging! Saying 'Buen Camino!' and smiling and giving us 'Buenes Dias' all over the place. It was just what we needed to get us down and up the last hill before arriving in Puente de la Reine for the evening. 24.6 km today - yay for us! neither of us have blisters, just tired feet, and some sun glow. We climbed a good big hill or two, passed a major wind farm - huge wind turbines swooshing round, and are finding our walking feet and legs again after three days of travel to get started.
This Refugio is fabulous - only 4 euros each per night, showers, and clean clean clean. Tonight we will be in a small room of only 8 people. Have just come home from a great supper - pilgrim supper - with a handful of germans, irish, american, french, and dutch, and we canadians pracitsing all our language skills to build some friendships. Breakfast tomorrow is planned with Horst and Manfreid, then we are off to Estella or beyond depending on how we feel.
It is sooo much warmer than we had expected. It was probably at least in the low twenties for a good part of the day today. Tonight over supper we had thunder, hail, and a ton of rain.
We have had a great first day.