(Yesterday, Today, Tonight)
So because yesterday was completely overwhelming, I passed out at 8pm... and woke up at midnight charged and ready to go because my body was thinking "Oh, it must be six o'clock... thanks for the Power Nap." ... yeah. So I tried my at home remedy of watching Tangled to try to induce myself into a deep sleep, however, I failed miserably. So I stayed up online obsessing over my future mythical boyfriend until the wee hours of the morning.
By 2am my body finally gave in to the rest I'd been needing.
At 8:29, for some god awful reason I awoke before my alarm. When I finally heard the horrendous chimes created by Apple I quickly got up and hopped in the spa like shower.
It's all marble walls, with a ceramic bottom... weird, with a six square spickets that squirt water from the wall, a shower head, and a shower head on the ceiling of the shower. So, we got water coming out the ying yang. However, It's almost impossible to get the water to stop coming from anywhere, so you constantly have water in your ears and in your eyes. (First. World. Problems.)
After the crazy weird shower, I got up and ready for the day, then realized we hadn't gone shopping and there wasn't any bread or breakfast type food... so I got K and A to hurry up and we headed down stairs to a local café and got breakfast. I got cafe con leche y ½ pan tostada for 1,50. :) K and A both got cafe con leche and a croissant. Yumm-o.
After a hasty desayuno we headed over to the post office to meet with the group, only to walk back to the school, which is five seconds from our house. After that we sat in a room for about two hours and talked about Granada... which I thoroughly enjoyed, seeing as how I knew nothing about the place... Can you feel the sarcasm?
When we finally left the school everyone swarmed to the Movistar store to get international phones. I being the nomad that I am, opted out of the phones because honestly, I've really liked not having one. Granted I cant give Mr. Sexy pants a number where he can call me, but I can find him later... right?
K. A and I all headed out to lunch and I knew exactly where to go. For those of you who went with me on the trip I went to a restaurant in the Plaza with the Alhambra churros con chocolate! It was amazing. We got a full lunch, two courses with bread and desert for 11,50 and sangria. We ended up paying about 18E each because the sangria was so expensive.
Next we went on a journey to find Corte Ingles, which is like a Walmart, Macys, Sears, Kroger, and JCPenny's combined. Needless to say, it's a confusing establishment. The only reason we went was to get a few things on our grocery list which was getting pretty extensive, seeing as how we didn't have much food. K said she knew how to make a few things, so she was more or less in charge of everything. I grabbed a few things that I knew I needed, and we headed out. A stopped by the Policia only to discover that she actually had to drive from our side of the map, far east, to the other side, far west, in order to get a few documents taken care of. We then headed to the Super Sol, the grocery store right next to our apartment, literally, it's right outside our door, and finished up the shopping.
At 6:00 we realized that we were supposed to meet everyone at 6pm, and we power walked the long way, which we found out after the fact, to our meeting place, where we embarked on our noble quest around Granada... to all of the sites that I've seen countless times. Hooray.
I mumbled side notes to my room mates and a friend I've recently made, R, letting them know that half of the tour was flawed, in that the best churros are at Alhambra churros, and the best ice cream is not at the place he pointed out. LIAHHHH!!! .... Spanish people don't understand my movie quotes, or my sense of humor! DAMN LANGUAGE BARRIER!
R, K, A, M and I headed out to go shopping and drinking after our tour. After a glass of wine and ice cream we started venturing and found that the Rebajas (sales) were still happening and that sales tax goes up 3% on Saturday... gotta pay for the monarchy over here I guess.
I was talked into paying for this amazing high-lo mini skirt, which looks pretty good. Everyone else bought shoes. It was a decent adventure.
I'm now home with an empty belly and heavy eye lids, so I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.
Hope I painted a decent picture for ya.
<3
Buenas Noches
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