sabado, 25 de mayo

The dancing definitely caught up to us when we woke up this morning and our legs were like jello.  It was a slow start but we were ready to get moving to get to eat churros y chocolate!  It was a short walk to La Plaza de la Virgen, where the group all met up at the restaurant.  The churros were perfect and the chocolate was decadent.  I was only able to eat two churros because the chocolate was too rich to eat much more than that.  After churros we went to explore the Roman ruins museum.  I was expecting to see items behind glass walls and small plaques with info on them but when we walked in it was amazing.  It was one large room with glass walkways so you could look down but below and all around us were the actual Roman ruins stones, streets, bathrooms, and everything else that had been excavated through the years.  Columns were discovered and even head stones and I was truly in awe.

Churros y Chocolate!

Actual Roman ruins walls

Standing on a glass walkway looking down on Roman bones

  

Jen and I decided to do a little shopping while others went to the beach since it wasn’t too warm out.  We stopped at a cute little café for lunch and I had a scrumptious sandwhich of mozzarella, ham, and tomato, which had THE BEST tomatoes ever.  They are officially one of my favorite things here.  Jen had a yummy chicken club sand which that was very good too.  After lunch we meandered to Colon street to begin our shopping endeavors!  We ventured to the famous Corte Ingles, which is like an oversized Macy's but we later found out the one we went to wasn't even the huge one with a grocery store and all, so we will have to find where that one is.  After shopping wore us out we grabbed a taxi back home, and enjoyed a lovely siesta again.  

Beautiful view at lunch

Once we were up and getting ready our host family invited us to go get drinks and tapas with them.  They took us to the locals places where you can get a drink and one tapas for 1 euro!  Such a great deal.  We went to three tapas bars and had a little something at each before heading off to meet up with our group for the night.  Our plan was to go to this "bar crawl" where you get to sample drinks and food at 5 different places but since no one is ever on time we ended up missing the time it started.  While we looked around for somewhere else to go we ran into the Hamdpen Sydney boys again and they told us a good place to go so our group and theirs went to Radio City Bar.  It had just opened and we were their first customers.  Once we grew bored of that crowd we wandered back up the street to a more "hip" place.  When we walked in it was lots of...older people which was kind of weird.  We made it to the back of the place where the younger crowd was and we got a free drink with the ticket we recevied outside...free drink meaning a drink with maybe 3 sips in it.

The place was eventually poppin but there were lots of people and it got hot really fast, so a few of us went outside to cool off and we decided to just leave given that we were so tired and over the scene of the night.  We grabbed ourselves a lovely baby pizza on our way home and dined in our quaint kitchen before heading to bed.

Catedral at night