Friday (March 13) Whitney, Sara, Cassandra, Kristin, and I met at the bus station and headed to Salobreña, only an hour bus ride to the coast. This beach trip was a lot warmer, although the water was still freezing. We did get some sun, some more than others, but I managed not to burn (thanks to my incredibly expensive sunscreen from Corte Ingles). There weren’t too many people laying out when we got there, but it got busier during the afternoon. There were, however, hundreds of fishing poles stuck in the ground along the shore with tons of fishermen. It was nice just to lay out and relax, I was able to finish a book I had been reading. We took the bus back and made it home before dinner. After dinner we all met at Cassandra’s apartment to watch Benjamin Button (in English!) but didn’t make it all the way through the movie because we were so tired.

Saturday (March 14) we left with our program to go to Sevilla for the day. However, the trip consisted of six hours of driving and only four hours in the city, definitely not enough time. Whitney stayed home because her friend Ashley was getting into town that afternoon. In Sevilla we walked around a bit, through the Plaza de España (stopping to take a group picture infront of the Granada section), gardens, around the Cathedral, and we toured the Reales Alcazar (which was pretty but nothing compared to the Alhambra), where the king stays when he visits Sevilla. There are a lot of other places in the city I would have liked to seen so we’ll just have to plan a trip on our own back there.
We got back to Granada and ate kebaps for dinner (yay!) because we didn’t have enough time to go home and eat with our families before we had to meet back up again with the group for the Flamenco show. Whitney and Ashley met up with us at the kebap place to go to the show. The theater was in Sacromonte, a nice long walk up a mountain, but had a gorgeous view of the Alhambra as the stage’s background (large windows facing that way). The Flamenco show was nothing like I expected it to be, it was not very traditional. I really enjoyed it but it was almost like a musical version of Aladdin (with the songs) mixed with Flamenco dancing. We stopped for tapas at La Tortuga on the way back home. Then went to get disco ready and got to Granada 10 around 3am. There weren’t as many people dancing this time, but there seemed to be less creepers (although our friend Mitch did have to deflect some for us). We made it until 5am this time, and didn’t even leave because of fatigue. We couldn’t hardly move anymore it got so crowded and my friend’s feet was dying from her new heels. We got kebaps (again!) on the way home because we were starving. I have decided that kebaps are the Taco Bell of Spain (but so much better), the only thing open so late.

Today I woke up around 2pm, just in time for lunch! Later I went for a run in the park; it is such a gorgeous day there were at least a hundred people in the park. After showering, I got ready for church and went to the evening service.