Steve n Karen and their Adventures: la familia Balcazar

mari, paco, and sarai

The Balcazar family has adopted us and they invite us to do sightseeing adventures with them just about every month. Mari is from Mallorca and she and her husband, Paco, along with daughter Sarai, know all the best places to visit and more important, the best places to eat! A Saturday adventure with them is a wonderful food fest, with bakery treats and new things to try, as well as beautiful scenery. This past weekend Sarai made us pancakes--delicious!-- and then we were off to the Santuari de San Joan to check out the views. Next we tried a new restaurant started by some friends of Paco with typical Mallorquin food--the restaurant used to be a butcher shop and was redone so beautifully, but with some of the old details still visible. After a late lunch with delicious food, we were off to a walk through a finca--farm/ranch--and saw an incredible sight! We had quite a bit of snow last month, and when it melts, it runs underground from the mountains and pops up in the middle of a forest, creating a very big river with gushing water. This only lasts until the snow is all gone, so we had a window of about three days and it was so cool to see this gushing of water appear in the middle of nowhere--magic! There are no rivers here on Mallorca, they only happen when it rains or the snow melts. Wish it would have lasted longer so we could see it again, but I guess that is what makes it so special:)