More Visitors!!

We were so exited when our friends from home came to visit. So exited were we, that we took pictures of ourselves, exited. Anyhoo, we had a blast for the week that they came and tried to cram in as much Espana as we could. We stayed at another great timeshare, thanks to Scott's mom, and participated in some of their activities. Scott took some more Spanish lessons and we all went to the wine education class. That was funny, while we were tasting through everything, there were a few groups of people from the UK, Norway, etc. who proceeded to get pretty tipsy. The whole thing kind of degenerated and by the end, we just watched as the ladies flirted with the teacher, and the REALLY tipsy Norwegian lady tried to help out by collecting all the paper cups, when really she was ramming into everything, spilling the wine.

We made a few day trips, one to Ronda which is the birthplace of modern bullfighting and has an incredible gorge, Sevilla and Jerez to try the sherry (ew)though I loved the cities and Scott picked up an awesome bota bag, and of course Granada to see the Alhambra and the town itself. That place was absolutely incredible, everything is so intricate and beautiful! As the day wore on, more and more tourists arrived- it was probably when we saw the most people from the states- packs of them coming off the tour buses and moving as one pushy mass through the place. It became a fun thing to watch as the guards regulated on the "no flash" rule. They mean it! And many of the self-important tourists can't imagine why these mean guards would deny them their RIGHT to have a photo of the old bowl in the museum. They came ALL THE WAY TO SPAIN... anyways, it was great to see a place that I have been wanting to see for so long.

We also were lucky enough to be able to share Thanksgiving with Kate and Devin...we made a HUGE feast, of course including some pork products (I think they were lucky enough to have pork EVERY day they were in Spain), we also had some cornish game hens, duck, it was very decadent. I can't remember if it was the same night, but we also practiced using the bota bag to drink wine and trying to get the most distance. Needless to say, shirts and even pants were ruined that night.