I Can´t Beleive We Finally Made It

Hey guys,
Thanks so much for keeping me updated on the stuff back home. I really enjoy hearing about stuff yáll are doing.
Well, guess what.............. We made it to Santiago. Yeah!!!!!! Actually, we got here yesterday and got our Compostellas, but today we went to the pilgim´s mass and are completely official. It is so neat to finally be here. Though this is not the end of our journey, we are so proud to have met our first goal (Finisterre is comming soon). Yesterday we walked in to Santiago from Arzua which is 32k away. We had decided that instead of coming into Santiago today like we had first planned we wanted an extra day's rest, so we walked the extra 10k. When we made it to the cathedral, we were absolutely exhausted and ready to collapse. On our way to Santiago, there is a mountain called Mont de Gozo which is the first place that you can see the cathedral´s towers in the distance. My dad and I climbed to the top so excited to see the cathedral. Yet we had heard that Mont de Gozo was disappointing because it has a large albergue that looks like a millitary camp. We did not expect there to be a clump of trees hiding the cathedral or an unkept ugly sculpture like we saw. But other than the disappointing Mont de Gozo stop, it has just been fantastic. Today we went inside the cathedral and got to hug the sculpture of Santiago like all of the pilgrims do. Unfortunatly the botefumario or the huge hanging incense maker was not there because it costs a lot of money so it is only swung when someone can pay for it. Tomorrow we're off for another 3 days to Finisterre because it is a tradition that all the pilgrims go to the ¨end of the world¨at the end of their pilgrimage and Finisterre was thought to be end of the world at that time.

Thanks a million for your support,
Caroline