Macking it in Madrid: romantic weekend with danielle

This weekend, I had a class trip to Granada and Córdoba in the south of Spain. Basically our entire class ignored me and Danielle, and therefore we had a romantic weekend together.

We had a 8 hour bus ride down to Granada from Madrid and when we got there, Danielle and I had lunch at a cafe. Then we had this long long tour of La Capilla Real (the royal chapel), which was kinda boring. Our tour guide spoke half in spanish and half in english and when she spoke in english, she exaggerated the last syllable of every word, which got really really annoying. Then we watched the disney channel in spanish in our room while we "got ready" and we hopped on the bus. They brought us to a restaurant where Danielle thought that "piscina" meant fish and she doesn't like fish...but piscina means pool...BUT we had fish so she was actually correct. We had a 4 course meal with a bottle of wine (thanks SLU!) including some salad with a shrimp on it with eyes staring at me, mystery meat, mystery fish, and ice cream. Then we went to a flamenco show, which was really really cool. The dancing is incredible and it's really emotional. The dancers can move their feet so fast and they get SO into it.

Saturday we went to La Alhambra, a city on top of a hill, and walked around for hours. It was raining, which kind of sucked, but it was cool to see a place that I've studied in art history this semester. The Muslim influence in the architecture is really cool to see there. Then we had lunch, where I swear the cook took a microwavable pizza and stuck it in the microwave for a couple minutes and served it to me. We had a two hour bus ride to Córdoba, where we drove around in circles for so so long. But really. We had free time for the rest of the day (5pm on...great) with no knowledge of the area at all. So we walked in a general direction and followed the people...and thank the lord found some restaurants. And by we, I mean me and Danielle again...because our class hates us and chose not to be nice to us. That's okay...we had a nice romantic weekend. Anywaysssss...we had dinner outside in this shopping area and had free tapas with a beer. And ice cream. Oops. Then we watched Jimmy Fallon, a documentary of marijuana, and a reenactment of the killing of Bin laden in our room because that's the only english channel there was...well the Bin Laden show was in German.

Sunday we got up super duper early and had a tour of la catedral de córdoba (which is actually a mosque) with a tour guide that only spoke spanish. That was really really cool...the architecture is amazing. And we walked to the baths of cordoba...which was underground and dark and old. It's where the men bathed in cold, lukewarm, and hot rooms. Interesting. Then we had two hours for lunch...and we had lunch outside next to some orange trees. Yum. Finally we went back home (6 hour drive).

Granada and Córdoba were really cool cities, and I'm glad I went but I probably won't go back. The people on our trip weren't so great...whatever. Thank god Danielle was there.