Day 52 - Bercianos - September 5 - Day 5 of 15
Oh my God, this day was crazy. We've been getting 15 to 20 pilgrims each day, kind of slow and easy. So today we were planning to make chicken and rice for 20 or 25. We ended up with 55 pilgrims. We didn't have to turn anyone away but we let the first pilgrims in at 12:45 ( we normally don't open until 1:30) because it had started to rain. We had our last pilgrim come in at 7 pm.
So suddenly a dinner planned for 20 turns into a dinner for 58, including the three of us. So what do you do, add more rice and Caldo de pollo and make a vegetable pasta dish because you have vegetarians anyway so just make more of that. While checking in pilgrims, getting them beds or mats for the floor, answering questions in whatever language you can as best you can. Lots of English people to day, as well as French, Italian and Spanish, of course. We can handle all of those.
It was lots of fun, and the pilgrims were great. I got a lot of compliments on my tattoo. This morning before the day got crazy, I got to sit with a young man who has been doing some exquisite drawings along the Camino. He showed his book of sketches and we discussed drawing vs photography. After he left, I found a thank you, gracias drawing he had done for us sticking out of the donativo box. What a nice expression of gratitude.
Just so many crazy wonderful things happened today, but I'm too tired to write about them now. Maybe I'll be able to add some tomorrow. 
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