corodoba

this past weekend a lot of people stayed in toledo but i really didn't want to because usually by the end of the week i want to go somewhere-i look forward to the week during the week and i really wanted to go somewhere warm. so i decided to go to cordoba which is in andalucia (south of spain) with jasmine and adrienne. we got there after some confusion about our bus tickets (we usually just use our passports to get one because we don't have printers to print out the tickets we buy online but apparently we needed tickets) but we ended up getting on the bus and after 4 hours we arrived in cordoba.

it was soo warm! the next day we sat outside for lunch and i was literally sweating in the sun, roasting. i had gazpacho, which is a typical spanish soup-kinda like tomato soup but it's served cold. it's so good i asked mercedes to show me how to make it one day so i can make it when i get back home-she said it's really simple. then we got ice cream and walked around the mezquita which is one of the main attraction points there.

i don't know if it was the heat we weren't used to or just the fact that we have been traveling every weekend since we have been here and the lack of sleep was beginning to catch up with our bodies- but after shopping after the mezquita we took a nap. then woke up, grabbed some dinner and headed out to find a bar. it took us more than an hour and a half to find  A SINGLE BAR or place where they served alcohol. we finally found the pub after realizing we had been walking around in a complete circle. the streets in spain will do that to you.

next day we walked around for a while trying to find somewhere to eat where we could eat outside and ended up finding a place by the mezquita and i had gazpacho again with chicken. so good. then we walked over and around the big bridge there. again took a nap and went out for the night to a dance club- i think we really are adjusting to the spanish culture where they don't end up going out until 11-12 but stay out until 6 or so in the morning. at one of the bars we took a picture with a guy who was on BIG BROTHER but the spanish version-first spanish celeb!

it was hard to leave the weather but it actually is heating up here in toledo- spring needs to spring!