Wandering in Granada

Que tal?

Today was pretty great, number one because it was friday and thats always exciting, and also because we signed up to go see the alhambra tomorrow, but mostly because Kathleen and I decided to wander to a new area of Granada we hadn't seen before, and it was amazing. I was really loving the whole study abroad experience, but now I feel more in love with Granada itself.

We decided we should try to get past some buildings in the city to get better pictures of the mountains, so we headed pretty far down a main street, able to see the mountains in the distance very clearly. Since we've been here, we haven't seen much of them because of the clouds, rain or snow, but today we were really able to get a first true glance at their beauty. We reached an area that seems up and coming, new parks and some fountains, and finally arrived at a bridge over some river I can't remember the name of. Its hard to describe how beautiful it was, walking along the river with a mountain backdrop. There was a hill nearby that was covered with white houses. It started to get dark, and they all lit up, twinkling lights in the distance.

Sunday we want to head out there earlier in the day to get some better pictures. Theres so much more we have to figure out about this city, today really helped make this whole experience more exciting and mesmerizing.

Tomorrow we are going to finally see the Alhambra!! I'm very excited, I've seen some pictures of it, but it is supposed to be wondrous to see with your own eyes. I also am planning to sign up and see the Mezquita in Cordoba next Sunday. Its a big moorish/islamic building that has like a hundred or two hundred columns striped with pink/reddish and blue! My descriptions are so vague, lol, I just don't know much about these places yet, but I will take notes or buy a book or something so I can remember and tell people about it if they want to know!

Meal recap:

Thursday: pizza for dinner

Friday: lunch - chicken surrounding a mound of rice...delicious. Dinner - hamburgers again made of chicken, I couldn't eat it. I apologized and explained I just don't like meat that isn't cooked all the way, so this won't happen again, she said don't worry about it, that she won't make it anymore and she's glad we told her. Senora is so nice, she totally understands when you don't like something. She said she's been doing this for 14 years so I'm sure she's used to people not liking certain things.

Oh! She did our laundry today, I saw my clothing hanging outside my window lol. I probably won't get it back till sunday if it isn't sunny out.

Love you all!