AWESOME NIGHT

I've had a pretty awesome weekend! In my last blog I wrote that I had something exciting for this weekend. Well it didn't quite turn out the way I thought it would have. There were 2 things I was thinking of when I made that comment and neither of them happened. I was going to go to this amazing beach about an hour away, OR get FREE tickets to the Davis Cup in Madrid. haha...well neither happened, but I still managed to do some sweet stuff here in Granada.

Thursday night wasn't all that exciting, but the rest was fun.

Friday: First I had to wake up at 8 am to go to a walk with my art history class. We went to the museum at the Alhambra, which is built in Charles V's palace he built when he conquered Granada. After the museum we went to the
"banuelos" or arab baths from the 11th century. I believe they are the oldest baths this well preserved left! So far I've seen 2 different sets of baths, the first one (in Ronda) was bigger, but this one was prettier. I didn't bring my camera, but it pretty much looked the same, just more quaint. After my walk, Carrie and decided to take another walk just around our neighborhood. We went to this really nice park called "Parque de Garcia Lorca". Its really close and its so pretty. Perfect for runners and making out people hahaha....in Spain so many people just like get in on in public. Apparently its totally acceptable (to a point of course). We talked about it in class, and think it has a lot to do with the fact that kids here live with their families sometimes till they are 28-30 so they need to get out and have some fun other places! haha Anyway, we found some really fun playground equipment to play on and met this cute little boy who showed us how to use this sweet "zip line" that the park had. I would say it was about 15 yards long. It was sooo fun, and i got so dizzy cause the rope you jump on, you twist before hand so when you are done it unwinds. Anyway I was so dizzy i just fell off. Carrie got some great pictures of me! haha
That night we went to this great arabic restaurant called "Kasbah", apparently its pretty famous because it was mentioned in Rick Steves book about Granada. It had a great atmopshere and was delicious! After that we went to this great tapas bar called 380. The tapas were so good and the atmosphere was young and modern! That was pretty much the night

Today (saturday): we woke up at like 12 and didn't do anything much until after lunch. but the weird thing was that it turned out that our senora's son, Dani, came over from Madrid last night, and today her daughter and husband, and grandaughter came over, but our senora served us lunch and then reset the table for her family. We felt kinda like we were kicked out or something....but whatever, we had work to do
The best part of the day came later. We had found out that there was a fashion show going on, so around 8:30 we went to Puerta Real ( a plaza) and checked out the free outside legit fashion show. We saw pretty dresses, normal street clothes, and then BOY IN UNDIES!
After the show, we went to this amazing music festival on the outskirts of Granada, technically another city, but it was only a 10-15 min ride. It was SOO hippie. I was dressed so inappropriately wearing a white button down shirt and jeans and flats, while everyone else was wearing the hippiest clothes ever, but it was still saaawweeeet. It was called Mujeres del Mediteraneo (women of the Mediterranean). It was celebrating women musicians pretty much. We saw 3 bands preform and the crowd and everyone was just soo great. we were dancing like crazy, so hot, and so fun. Carrie and a bunch of other girls in the program got a chance to go on stage and dance with the musicians!!! there were like 1,000 people there so that was pretty CRAZY! I took so many pictures! hahah
We were all so hungry and so when we left we got these things called "Shwarmas" - its like a pita with meat/fallafels and veggies and sauce and deliciousness. It was the perfect end to a great night!!! it tasted sooo good.
Tomorrow we plan on just doing more homework and sleeping.
HOpe all is well!!
miss and love ya'll hah
Kate