Welcome to Córdoba Spain. It's in southern Spain, on the way to beautiful Granada. It's a small cute town that my program took us to for the day, it was a short time so I don't really have much to say (I need to get back to blogging the day I get back so I remember the cool things I learned!!) enjoy :)
This is the Cathedral, ya know I'm sure you're just as tired of hearing about cathedrals as I am touring them, but they are all very cool and neat in their own way.
There were sooooo many arcs!
Called a double arc, not too hard to tell but my friend Kristen is in a Spanish architecture class & likes to show off her skills.
This was my favorite room in the Cathedral, its so girly and white and pretty :)
This was my favorite little tid-bit in the Cathedral. It's the artist signature of that column. Kind of neat and different.
These flowers are what córdoba is known for && man do they show it off! There EVERYWHERE!!
The Synagog
&& that was it for Córdoba, just a few hours and a lunch there. Now on the..drumroll pleaseee....GRANADA!!! granada means pomegranate in spanish, but they don't have pomegranates there...how does that make sense?! It's my favorite fruit so it was quite the disappointment. But Granada is also in Southern Spain & just soooooo beautiful! Here is the Alhambra, kind of like a fortess but different because it's bigger and has more purpose. Isn't that pretty! We saw it at sunset and the entire city, breath taking. It was quite the hike to get up to this view but it was totally worth it.
Top left: Christina, Sara, me, Katie, Ali & Kelsey
Bottom left: Kristin, Kristen, Rachel & Maggie
Top left: Ali, Katie, Kristen & Christina
Bottom: Kelsey & I
in front of the Alhambra
&& then after our workout to the top of the city, we went back down to watch this flamenco show inside a gypsy cave. It was pretty cool because there were multiple performers. They were fun because they were talking to each other and feeding off each others energy, you could tell it wasn't a super professional performance because of that but that's what made it pretty cool.
What the heck is this dude wearing right?!
The next morning we got up to see the Alhambra, luckily we didn't have to hike up to it. It's beautiful, but I was distracted by our FBI agent looking headphones thingys to hear our tour guide so honestly, I don't know much of the history :/ haha shucks, now I feel bad. FOCUS SADI!
Rachel, Me & Katie
Katie & I
Ok SEE don't they look like secret agent stuff, I seriously couldn't get over it. I had slept like 3 hours because my mind was busy worrying about housing all night so I was just so tired I was loopy and I HAD to talk like an agent the whole time!
Kristin, Rachel, Me & Maggie
Oh well to that nice picture they wanted to take ha
&& thanks to my parents for giving me an extremely small ears, they couldn't hold up the ear piece?!? haha but it's ok, I rather have super tiny ears than big!
This is neat, it's on the walls (well durr) and its actually writing, but I don't know how anyone could decipher that.
The city of Granada
Part of the cieling, first time I've seen stars up on one.
This ceiling looks like the upside down whirlpool or something.
It was a short trip, just one night but it was fun to see another part of Spain! I was going to stay another day and go snow boarding for the first time ever in the Sierra Nevada which is suppose to be AMAZING because you can be on a snowy mountain and see the beach from the top, which is really cool. Butttttttt I'm going to Italy (TWO WEEKS YAY!!!) soon so I decided to save some dough ya knoww.
