ALWAYS a lot to catch up on!

Another weekend has flown by! I'll do another breakdown for the simplicity of it:

Thursday: Class at 11, good thing too, because Wednesday night I stayed up until 3:30 video chatting with some people from Purdue and doing homework. I went home for lunch and met Mary an hour before class for cafe con leche that I knew I would need to stay awake! After class we walked around a little and due to ridiculous amount of rain, went into a little bar had some papas bravas (my absolute favorite tapa!) and tinto verano. After the rain settled a little we headed home to get ready for the night. We went out in Plaza Alfalfa, probably my favorite place to go on the weekends now, and just had a chill night. The bars were really packed due to the rain, because a lot of times people will be outside of the bars in the streets.

Friday: I slept in and after lunch I met up with some of the girls from the other side of the river because it was such a beautiful day. We sat by the river for a few minutes . . .

. . . and then headed to get some smoothies. After that we shopped around for costumes for the weekend. That night everyone was pretty tired and wanted to reserve their energy for Saturday so most of us stayed in, myself included. It was nice to get a good night sleep!

Saturday: It was a BEAUTIFUL day in Sevilla, so Mary, Delaine, and I decided to meet at 11 and go explore the city. We all had sweaters and jackets on, but not for long! I stayed in the sun as much as possible and even got a sunburn :) We went to Parque Maria Luisa and walked around before heading over to Plaza de Cuba. This plaza is beautiful, but unfortunately parts of it are under construction. It was still gorgeous and I enjoyed walking around.

Cool picture of the bridge in Plaza Espana, I like the reflection in the water!

Delaine and Me

Mary and Me

Finally, we found Plaza de America where you can feed the pigeons . . . they are supposed to sit on your arms and eat from your hands but for some reason they were shy today, I was upset about that to say the least!

Trying to get the pigeons to eat out of my hand

I still had a lot of fun exploring more of Sevilla and spending the entire day in the sun! I was craving a salad that day and of course diet coke (but settled with a coca light), so we sat outside by Plaza de America at a cute cafe.

mmmm . . . so refreshing!

Afterwards, I headed out to get some final things for my 80's costume and met Kirstin and Mary for Yogurtlandia . . . yum. I went home to get ready for the events of the evening!

I got dressed for Carnaval in Cadiz and headed to get some alcohol before boarding our bus at 8pm. It was quite embarrassing to walk through most of Sevilla in my 80's outfit, but oh well! We got to Cadiz and started drinking in the streets checking out everyone's costumes and then headed to the main plaza. Everyone was having a good time just hanging out, meeting new people, and taking pictures.

Much of Bus #1 when we were all still dry and happy!

Some of the girls!

After awhile a few of us really needed to use the restroom, did I mention the fact that all the bars block off their entries so you can still buy drinks from them, but aren't able to enter and use their facilities? This left us with a lot of alleyways, but luckily a group of us found some port-o-potties!

Find us a REAL bathroom, please!

Later, it started getting breezy and I insisted it was an ocean breeze, despite the fact that I knew it meant a storm was rolling in. Spain and it's crazy weather resulted in a group of us walking up and down streets looking for an open place to go sit inside, and after what seemed like forever, we settled on sitting inside a churros tent. Not the best location, but at least we weren't getting rained on anymore. Of course, I chose not to bring my umbrella because I didn't feel like holding it; although, I am not sure it would have been all that helpful, numerous umbrellas snapped in half while others were dropped and lost. Also, my fanny-pack (yes, I wore a fanny-pack! it went with my costume!!!) didn't have room for me to squeeze my raincoat inside, so I was soaking wet. The night turned from fun into miserable, leaving some of us to be jealous of the bums under the dry arches of doors in what looked like extremely dry, warm sleeping bags! You can guess when this next picture was taken:

Nap time in the Churros tent!

Luckily, due to the rain our bus left at 4:30 instead of 5:30 in the morning, but you can only imagine how humid and sticky and comfortable a coach bus full of 60 soaking wet 19-21 year olds can be. We gave in and took a taxi from where the bus dropped us off in Sevilla to our houses. I crawled into bed at 7:15 and slept for most of the day.

Sunday: I woke up around 3!! I felt bad, but I needed my sleep! I ate some lunch, did some homework, and then headed to Starbucks with Mary to do even more homework. I never really expected so much work, and it just stinks because my homework takes me so much longer due to everything being in spanish. I had some dinner, took a shower, and now I am going to finish up some work and probably watch some American TV :)

Thanks for reading! Sorry my posts have been so lengthy lately!