Here is my "official" welcome. Welcome from New Zealand.
I see you live in Central California. I was born in Santa Barbara, I don't remember much about it, we moved from there when I was 3, I did get to see a wee bit of it however last year when Steve and I took an Amtrak trip across America, it stopped in Santa Barbara, so, I hoped off and took some pictures from the station, I took lots as we traveled near 101 as well.
I have also lived in Arizona, Tucson, I use to help teach horseback riding there. That was back in the 70's.
LOL, Spanish, well, why not. I know some Spanish, in fact, I used the "sit" command in Spanish once on Laddie and he obeyed it better than English, unfortunately, I do not know a lot, I had taken it in high school many years back, so, I have forgotten a lot of it.
The pictures are darling by the way. Dogs are wonderful.