Sabado el 6/21

Ok ya´ll, I need to get on top of this blog think and make sure i´m posting on a regular basis because I´m starting to forget everything I´m doing. I´m so tired all the time...i feel fried. The days here are so long (it doens´t START gettin dark until 9:30) and we so so much...im going to run out of steam soon!! =(

Anyway let´s take it back and talk about last saturday. I got up at 7 freakin 30 to eat breakfast and hop on a bus bound for Granada. It was about a (sorry...just an interuption, I tried connecting to power 105 online to listen, but it doesn´t work internationally...anyway i logged on to IMEEM and í´m listening to soulja boi and it´s soooooo distracting to me while im trying to remember stuff lolz youuuuuuuu) okay..moving on, it was about an hour and 45 min drive, most of which I slept through. The first place we arrived was the ALAHAMBRA, aka the MOST beautiful thing/monument i´ve ever seen.

Histoy Lesson: way back when, the arabs invaded Spain and sultans reigned over the land for centuries. Eventually, the christian Spainards overthrew them and took the largest of the sultan´s castles (the alahambra) and built a larger christian castle around it. So this monument (which should be on the wonders of the world list) is essentially, 2 castles, a fortress, and a huge garden all wrapped up in one. We had a great tourguide named Frederico and he was so knowledgeable of all the history and little details on the walls, doors, ceilings...everything. I never realized how much stuff has come from the arabs.

He discussed the origin of the phrase "7th heaven" and we learned alot about how alchemy and algebra developed (ps. most spanish and english words beginning with "al" have arabic orgins)

Anyway when our tour ended, we had a little bit of time left and our teacher (Alajandro) said it would be worth it to go to the top of the fortress towers...and that we should just quickly follow him.....AND SO IT STARTS.
Let me explain.

Alajandro walks SOOOO FAST. He´s insane; i run and i still can´t catch up with his walking. It was a really beautiful view from the top of the towers. I caught a glimps of the highest 2 points in the sierra nevada mountain range, but by the time i speed walked/ ran back to the bus, I was lacking breath and drenched in sweat.

2 people actually got lost cause the probably couldn´t keep up and we had to wait on the bus for nearly an hour until we decided to take off for the city center without them (don´t worry, they were found later ;] )

Later on, the 20 of us ate at a fancy restaurant were I had a weird burger...definitely not like america...but i was so hungry it didn´t even matter. It could have been fish...it didn´t matter. (yea..i was that hungry). We also got ambushed again by water prices...5 euro´s a bottle!!!

After that we visited La Catedral de Granada...which, i gotta say...was gorgeous, but CREEPY!! i think cathedrals are scary! They´re always so dark and have pictures/statues of people suffering and the organ...omg the organ, such creepy/dark music. Anyway needless to say, i think i´ve seen enough cathedrals for this trip....or for a lifetime even. I´m not even religious, why do i go to them??

After the cathedral we had only just enough time to speed walk back to the bus and head home.

Saturday night was a lot of fun (or at least i think this was saturday night...they´re all mushing together in my mind)
We all went out as a huge group and TOOK OVER the same two placed we went the night before just this time it was more fun cause all of us were together. El open arms was a good time especially because there was a bachelor party of guys from England dressed up in crazy full-on costumes (like superman, a priest, marylin monroe, yoda, a mexican, the crocodile huner, etc...) they were quite funny. There was also a bachlorette party from england and they were all dressed up in grass skirts and bunny ears and such.

yaa so that wa sat...long day... and then to bed for another early day, Paroramic tour of Costa Del Sol 9:30 am...yayyyyy