The day I got a Venezuelan Cuatro

This was an interesting experience I just lived. It's not that I would ever want to feel it again because it wasn't very pleasant, but it all adds to the practice. The strong wind on the highway made me stop at one gas station and call my husband to hear him, to calm me down. I was a bit scared as the gusts of wind were shaking the car and there were branches and several road signs that fell on the road. At one point, when I was overtaking a truck, a gust of wind caught me and an alarm went off in my car. 😯 After this, I didn't bypass a single truck on the way home so that the same thing wouldn't happen to me again. Now, already at home, my husband told me that the orange wind gust alert is active.

We need to have experience and know how to drive in any weather conditions... This is where my husband has more experience, so when we travel somewhere together, he drives. Rain, fog, wind, sun or snow - he is not insecure like me. He was also quite comfortable with driving when we went to Madrid a few months ago; the sky was completely covered with clouds, and there were no signs that the sun would come out at all that day. But it was not bothering us.

We were heading to the capital of Spain to meet a few Hivers from Venezuela who had their tour with the choir here. As I knew in which hotel they were staying, we booked a room in the same hotel, but as a surprise. Hive account@jesuslnrs and Hive account@jhoxiris were waiting for us but they didn't know we would book at the same place. I told him that surprise in a message only when we were close to Madrid and he and his group were off to have lunch.

I think he was slightly shocked hahaha 😂

When we arrived and met, had a cup of coffee and a good chit-chat, I got a nice gift from them. A perfect souvenir a musician can get is something connected to music... they brought me a model of a national instrument from their country, a Venezuelan Cuatro.

Well, there are two in the photo - one was meant to be a gift to Hive account@palomap3. As they didn't manage to meet in Spain, I took that one too and later (much later, like a few months later, hahaha) I mailed it to her. That was the way how I packed it, protected and in a box so the gift arrived in her hands without any damage.

And what did happen to my Venezuelan Cuatro?

All this time, it patiently waited for its moment to appear on Hive. I promised it that I would present it as my new chosen instrument, like leaving the piano for a new musical instrument in the initiative I created a while ago for fun called It Can't Be True 😂. My own participation included the oboe and the violin and then I wanted to do it with this instrument too but well... at the moment this little guy just moved with us to our new home and now is coming here to TBT as a reminder of the day I got it from Hive account@jesuslnrs.