Today was crazy for a Saturday.
I woke up at 7am to a dark room and a growling stomach, only to be told that I had twenty minutes to prepare for the hike we were going on. I quickly got dressed and scarfed down some fruit.
At 8:00 the bus came and picked everyone up and we headed out about thirty minutes outside of Granada and began our trek up the steepest incline that I've ever seen, for my rowing friends I swear it was a two mile long version of 'The Hill." and I really wanted to kill myself halfway up.
When we got about a fifth of the way there we turned around to a fantastic view of the Sierra Nevada, yes same name, different country/continent. When we finally made it to the top the sun was finally at it's peak and I was sweating bullets. We took great pictures and admired the fake looking view from where we were.
I've never seen mountains like that outside of a movie. It really reminded me of some sort of Lord of the Rings kind of scenes.
On the way down it was a slippery slope. There was loose gravel everywhere and almost everyone fell and busted their asses. It was really quite hilarious, but pretty scary seeing as how we were at the very top of the mountain, and there was nothing but dirt and bushes to catch us. Sounds comfy hu?
When we made it to the less difficult area everything seemed pretty awesome, as if it would be smooth sailing from then on. Au contrare my friend. We went into this cave type structure and there were a bunch of rocks coming out at us from either side, making it extremely difficult to stay on the elevated sidewalk over the river.
There were handles placed about 6 feet apart from each other going down the rock, so if you're tall you can just swing in a spider man like style from handle to handle, however, if you're vertically challenged like me, and have a wingspan of about 5'4" then you're kind of just making handles out of weird niches in the rock... the perks of being short... great.
After we made it out of the jigsaw puzzle that was climbing through a cave, not even up or down, we saw people scaling a seemingly smooth rock face with little to no assistance from people on the ground. They were just free climbing with a few clips and some rope. NBD. We saw my future husband too. Super tan, back like a greek god, shirtless, dark hair, beautiful... and rock climbing... too bad I'm scared of heights, looks like the wedding's going to be postponed.
After we admired the view and the skill it took to get up there, we crossed a bridge that can honestly only be compared to the one in Shrek / Indiana Jones. I kept thinking to myself "SHREK! I'M LOOKIN DOWN!" It was seriously held up by wire rope with a few metal things going down the sides to look like hand rails. But the boards that it was made from were spaced so awkwardly that it was completely possible to miss your footing and fall face first potentially plummeting to you doom... or at least that's what my over active imagination came up with.
Once across the bridge we headed downwards to a lovely view of a waterfall that seriously must have been in a calendar somewhere by now. It was so cute, and peaceful looking. I wanted to play in it, but wet socks are probably the worst thing ever.
After our scary life-endangering trip we all went up to a little cafe and got cervesas and tinto with some amazing tapas. I've grown to like to beers here "Alhambra" and "Mahou". Both very mild, and kind of remind me of Bud Light, sans after taste. Still delish, and drinkable to boot.
Then we took a journey back to the bus stop that took FOREVER yet again, and everyone promptly passed out on the bus.
When we got back to our home stop we got out and found this man selling PRICKLY PEARS!!! 5 for 1E! So of course I took him up on his offer. He actually gave us 6, which was amazing, so K, A and I all snacked like thieves on the walk home. It was quite an experience, and I now really like Prickly pears! :)
That was our afternoon.
I finally awoke from my slumber a while ago to the news that we've been selected for free entry to a club along with a complementary bottle of champagne. YEAH BUDDY. :)
I'll letcha know how that goes later.
<3
Buenas Tardes
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