Granada, Futbol y Borracha

Hmmm, so much to write about, I hope I can remember it all! We went to Granada early Friday morning and spent the day walking up and down (mostly up) mountains. We just walked around enjoying Granada and then we walked/climbed up to Alhambra. Talk about a fucking hike. It sits up on a high mountain. But it was really cool. It was huge. I couldn't imagine living there. There's like a palace part and a fortress part. It's really pretty. Here is a video I took from across the way of Alhambra. Granada, especially Alhambra, is pretty touristy. (Example: Amanda was wearing an NCSU shirt, some guy made the wolfpack hand symbol at us. Small world. Literally.) It's still really tranquil while also a huge city. I would love to go back to Granada someday and see everything else it has because we only saw a very small part of the city since we were only there for 2 days. Me with Alhambra in the background

Yesterday we went to the Cathedral. There literally aren't words that can describe it. I'm still marveling over the immaculate detail and size of this church. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel are buried in one part of it, and that part is considered sacred so no photos were allowed. There is another part where they actively have mass and you could take some photos in there of certain things. It just blows my mind how something so awesome was built without any technology and just to think about how much time it took someone to carve out the designs and make the stained glass window. I love when I literally can't fathom something.

This picture does absolutely no justice to the detail and architecture of the Cathedral.

Last night was the Barcelona vs Manchester United Champions League Cup game. BIG DEAL here. Like we're talking everything but bars shut down and when Barca won there was just mass chaos in the streets. The police blocked off the main square here so people could celebrate. Completely insane. Also completely insane is where we went last night after the bar. It's called Botellon. You just go out to where there is a bunch of warehouses and there's hundreds of people out there just drinking in the street. It's a cheap way for everyone to hang out and drink. The policia rolled through and just said hey to everyone. We stayed there til about 5am and we were among the first to leave. I have no clue how these people do it! Here's a vocab lesson: the spanish word for drunk is borracho/a.

Amigos

I don't know what's in store for today. Probably a good rotation between napping and homework and eating. As promised, here are the videos of my family showing me salsa and Amanda and Dani flamenco-ing. Hasta luego!