So it's been 3 weeks since my last post.....my bad. I just got overwhelmed by the prospect of writing about our trip to Andalucía because there was SO MUCH to tell, and I just kept putting it off, and now here we are. So now for the next couple posts I'm just going to bombard you with pictures and little captions from the last little while. Prepare yourselves; lots has transpired.
¡ANDALUCIA!
First stop was featured in Cervantes' Don Quixote. The windmills of Consuegra.
Don't worry, I got a few punches and kicks in to help ole Don out.
Next up was Granada and La Alhambra. Utterly fantastic.
Love, love, loooooove Moorish architecture. The detail on everything is so intricate and ornate, and my eyes and brain were just on overdrive trying to take it all in.
Me and Aly - I'm obsessed with this place.
Anna, Madi, Aly and I just plopped ourselves up on a wall, got some sun, did some chatting, got paparazzied by some Asian tourists, and marveled at how awesome life is right now.
Próxima Parada: Córdoba
Inside the Mezquita. Again, LOVE the Moorish architecture.
Just gettin ma stankyyy leg on in the streets of Córdoba.
Juderia in Córdoba, so many flowers hanging from the buildings, loved it!
Ruins of Medina - once a bustling, powerful city until it all got burned and blown up. War is dumb.
Onward to Sevilla!
Hellooooo. I like you.
Plaza de España! And yes, Star Wars Episode II was filmed here.
Coats of arms inside the room where Columbus had his little chatty-chat with Isabel and Ferdinand about his travels.
Columbus' grave inside the Cathedral of Sevilla (third largest cathedral in the world).
View of the top of the cathedral and overlooking the city from the tippy top of La Giralda (the tower of the cathedral). Climbed like 35 levels of ramps to get up there, but it was a wonderful excuse for some gelato later, of course.
We rented bikes and rode all around the city. The weather was SO nice, we got a little exercise, and it was just all around PERFECT. We even choreographed some synchronized biking in the Plaza de España.
The last leg of our bike ride was a journey to find el barrio de la Macarena. And find it we did. I can now say that I have done the Macarena in Macarena, Spain. (Anna, Jenna, Kim, Whitney, Aly, and I)
Flamenco stage. Absolutely amazing. We couldn't take pictures of the actual performance, but I doubt they would have done it justice anyway.
Last stop, Mérida. Roman ruins.
Roman amphitheater
Where they kept the animals before they set them loose to feed on convicts. Rawr.
Roman theater
Vern KILLING it. Girl gots pipes.
This is our creepy stalker man. He first appeared in Granada, but none of us thought anything of it, just a normal passerby in a red coat, right? Then he showed up in Córdoba, tagging along on our tour of the Mezquita. THEN he continued to follow us around our tour of the city. Tid bit weird, but we shrugged it off. Fast forward two days to Sevilla. Just finished a wonderful bike excursion through the city, and what do I see out of the corner of my eye? Red coat. Same man. Three consecutive cities. WHY YOU FOLLOW US HOMBRE??
Minus the creeper, in a nutshell: Andalucía = love.
NSP moment:
Too many to count. For example, right now it's one o'clock in the morning, and I haven't started my homework for tomorrow! Thank goodness for siesta, that's all I have to say.
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