I left my heart in Spain...

Que triste!!!

Thank you everyone for following me on my adventures abroad! It was great fun and I highly recommend visiting the Andalucia region of Spain (southern Spain). It was kind of fun to share stories on here so may be I'll post some stories in the future.

Update: Vy is still in Spain. His company extended his stay so the poor guy is having breakfast for one for a couple weeks. It was hard to say bye to him when I left. Now I am back in Oregon and we will be ex-roommates for a little bit so sorry guys, no more absurd comments from Vy on here.

Hopefully, Vy will send me some ham from Spain so I can have more ham! Mas jamon por favor!!!

CHEERS!

Spain adventures are winding down. Just ran through the rain with my sidekick through the city..tomorrow will be my last full day in Seville.

Yesterday, was our six year-er and we went do dinner, drank a bottle of wine, and then paid 10 euros each to go to a comedy show that was playing at our hotel. I think it was a good show...too bad we didn't understand it. Vy got a whiskey that put him over for the night. I ordered Vodka and oj. The bartender didn't understand Vodka. After repeating myself about five times she says, "oooh BODKA!" My bad...I forgot to put a Spanish accent twist to it.

Vy: "It's been a great six years, so here's to the next six months!" jerk.

Naranja!!!

RECAP: So my first day of exploration in Seville, Spain, I spent hours looking for a neighborhood with orange trees and turns out I was in the neighborhood and the oranges just weren't ripe..FINALLY, a peeking orange to fill my void.

Finally...

Vy was sent here for work and finally gets to go in..after 2 weeks of vacation!

He probably hates me for making him do this twice

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I said what in the butt...I said what what in the butt!

So I'm shopping...I'm shopping...I'm shopping...then while I'm paying for my tostadas and juice at the supermarket BOOM..something interferes with my happy thoughts..B-O. Old man behind me didn't smell too pleasant. Oh Europeans.

Forgot to share this story about the nude beach. So yea, remember the girl who I was checking out her bikini and when she took of her dress she was topless..she was the first nudey I saw. So I was a little shocked and took a few glances her way to see how normal it was for her and to see if anyone walking by was sneaking a peak. Then when I look ahead, I hear a "hola!" Oh my...she knows I'm looking and just said HI! Then I turn around and see a baby..she was saying hi to the baby..wooo. no more sneaking glances at the nudes.

VY-ness: After he sneezed..." PHEW! I felt that pressure out of my butthole!"
                                             me: So when you sneeze you feel the pressure in your nose
                                             AND your butt?
                                             Vy: Do you not understand pressure?
                                             me: I do, but never heard anyone describe their sneeze
                                             with their butt.
                                             Vy: Well, I meant my butt felt loose
                                             me: So you are saying when you sneeze, you could poo?
                                             Vy: Well, I'm sitting.
                                             me: So if you are standing and sneeze you can just go diarrhea?
                                             Vy: I think I clench.
Nice dinner chat!

Alhambra

Them Spaniards love churros and chocolate in the morning!

The main purpose of this weekender was to go to the Alhambra in Granada. The Alhambra is a network of lavishly decorated palaces and gardens. It was where sultans, high commanders and the royal court lived between the 12th and 15th century.Unfortunately, the tickets to go inside the sultan's palace was sold out but after being a poopie face about it for about 20 min, I enjoyed checking out the other palaces and other structures.

View from Mirador de Nicolas

Cool huh?! Seeing palaces and castles will never get old. Now go forth and share your new knowledge about the Alhambra with the world. 

Our new favorite Spanish song. "Es secreto de las tortugas" youtube it and you will be humming it all day. 

Instead of a absurd vy note..look what i woke up with....

MOSQUITO BUG on my EYE!! FU MOSQUITO! and hostal. Our bathroom was like a mosquito nest. We kept the bathroom door closed and when you had to use it, it was a gamble if you were going to come out safe. So happy to be back in our king size bed in a hotel.

Peace and love

Train em young!

Friday means weekender!!! Packed and ready to rock. We were going to go to the Cordoba province and take a tour of the olive oil factory there. Sounds super interesting to me! But Vy said it was too far so we chose to go to Malaga. We arrived in Malaga Friday afternoon and headed to the Picasso museum.

HISTORY TIME! Bet you didn't think that you would learn so much from my blogs huh. Picasso was born in Malaga and left at the age of 19 to France. The general in Spain banned Picasso from Spain because of his 'degenerate' art and never returned to Malaga but he still had a special place for the city. Therefore, when the opportunity came up for a museum, he was excited to donate over 200 of his pieces to the museum. I got goosebumps being in the presence of such great art. I loved the colors he used and boy, did Picasso loveeeee big boobies! We weren't allowed to bring our cameras in unfortunately.

The only thing I took a picture of in the museum

We weren't feeling Malaga and decided to spend the night somewhere else. After driving up the coast and consulting with Lonely Planet, we found a beach town named Almunecar. found a hostal and parked our booties there and took in the view.

First thing I noticed on the beach. Little girls are walking around in just bikini bottoms! They are raised to feel free topless on the beach! Sure makes sense to me when i witness my first topless chic sitting next to me. She takes off her dress and is ready to tan without those bikini lines! An older lady comes up to her and sits to talk to her...yeah, no big, they are just having a normal conversation while one has her ta-tas out. I was going to take a picture of her back while she was sittin in front of me for the blog, but didn't want to be too creepy.

Vy found a nice little cove where we snorkeled. There was no one there but while Vy led me there I realized why there was no one there....to get there you have to go through two areas of complete nude beaches!!! I felt like i was looking at those humorous greeting cards with fat naked old folks flaunting their stuff on the beach and the head line is like "Just hang loose on your Birthday!" There was a dad with his junk out and his little daughter playing next to him while he tanned.

Lunch:.. nothing other than JAMON

" I was so nervous thinking, what would I tell the doctor if I got bit by a fish!"

Best thing about being in the Granada province, every time you order a beer, they give you a free tapa! We ordered sandwiches and beers and they kept giving us more free food! so stuffed afterwards.

ABSURD TALK! Vy: "This would be a perfect time to pull over and kill you..." He's so charming.

FRIENDS FOREVER!

I forgot to post the friendship bracelet the old Spanish lady gave to me today..por gratis! for FRIZZLES! FREEZIES!

FRIENDS FOREVER MI AMIGA!

Dos Cervezas!

Pork ribs

Today we went on a food tour after our tour of El Ingles Cortes (only department store left in Spain). There was also fair nearby that had a ridiculous amount of food. Good food, great Mexican man who sang us some tunes, and some merengue dancing calls for a good night.

Jamon y papas

First thing Vy orders..and ONLY thing he knows how to order.. dos cervezas

Hey now! We aren't all play and eats. We got some education in today while attending the archeology museum today.

Can you say apple bottom jeans?

Now what do you think he's taking a picture of?

 

I sure don't understand why security at the museum seem to always follow us....

Y'all ready for some Vy absurd talk?

While Vy attempting to mail some postcards, he was confident in what to say when his turn came up. So I asked, what are you going to say...he says, " Salida, aseos." Translation: Exit, toilet. haha couldn't leave his side after I heard that.
Vy recently went to the dentist: "The dentist said i need to drink more coffee so my teeth go back to normal..it's embarassing how white my teeth are." Weirdo..

Jamon-ed OUT!

Rabbit with garlic

Tapas are delicious..so flavorful but boy do I crave some white rice and plain ole scrambled eggs...here are some pictures of what we've been eating.

Their version of a hamburgesita

Argentinian steak

King Prawns

Gambas al ajillo

A mixture between paella and gumbo= deliciousness

prawns and mushroom crepe

Another hamburger version

Monkfish liver and fois gras

Aye Papi!

Yesterday, my roommate and I visited the well known Cathedral and Giralda known as the Home of God and built by the hands of lunatics. It is also officially the biggest cathedral in the world. HISTORY TIME! After Seville fell to the Christians in 1248, the mosque was used as a church until 1401. Signs of decaying meant that it was time to remodel the church. Therefore, they wanted to build the church soooo grandiose that people would think that they were lunatics. The cathedral is 126m long and 83m wide.The cathedral had like 30 different chapel areas so you could have like a bunch of masses going on at the same time. So unnecessary.

View from the Giralda tower of the Cathedral

Each square represents something and all the way at the top is the crucifix. this is on the altar.

View of the city

Supposedly the bones of Christopher Columbus are in there. 

 VY IS ABSURD: Lesson- Don't think Vy is going to actually be serious and reverent going through a Cathedral. Anything that came out starting with "I know what they used this for..." usually was ridiculous.

And no matter where we are, it will always be amusing (more to him) to try and have a statue cup his nuts in a picture...even if it's in a room full of Jesus art and the statue is of some saint.

If Only You Could Get Money For Free From the Bank

OHHhhhhhhH shopping mall across the street from the hotel..you will be the death of me and my wallet.

The Busy Man at Work

Vy working :)

Plaza Espana!

Somehow when I venture off by myself, it takes me about 2 hours to get home but with Vy, it'd only take like 20 min. A short visit to the plaza ended up being an entire day's journey.  This is the plaza we ran through. I had to go back and take pictures.

Break before going home...yumm

Two Countries, One Weekend

I'm back fans from a weekend filled with travel. Just me, Vy and our trusty little hatchback rental...oh yeah and Rob, the gps. Friday morning we set out to Tarifa, the city located at the most southern tip of Spain. Tarifa is a 35 min ferry ride away from Morocco. It is pretty insane-o to be able to see Africa in the distance!!!

                                                                           In Gibraltar

Oh boy is Tarifa windy!!!! It was worth it to be standing with the Mediterranean Sea on our left, the Strait of Gibraltar in front, and Atlantic Ocean on the right. The wind didn't allow us to stay for long. Next stop, Bolonia, a small city located outside of Tarifa.

We decided to add some education to our ventures and visited a Roman ruin site. After quickly perusing the site, it was time to hit the beach!!! After a very profound discussion, Vy and I have decided that the Pacific Ocean is better than the Atlantic...we may be bias.

Lesson of the day: So, after you swim in the ocean, it may not be the best idea to hike up a sand dune in a bikini and huge gusts of winds. I felt like a supermodel hiking to an exotic location and trying to look good while  I was in pain from the sand hitting my bare skin and sticking. The only slight difference was my photographer, aka Vy, didn't care to take pictures of me.

Next day, new country! With our passports in hand, Gibraltar (UK) let us on their land. So weird to be forced to speak Spanish in Spain then by the afternoon, I am free to speak English in the UK. Gibraltar was cool. Befriended some apes, learned some history and ate some fish n'chips.

Our last night in Tarifa ended with a bunch of shots of "jota,b y absolute," pizza and falling asleep eating nachos in bed! 

ABSURD THINGS THAT COME OUT OF VY'S MOUTH!
" I want each nationality to get a chance to have a piece of me. So I can spread my goods to every race. Each person gets a "stab." --Vy always about being fair.

                                        " I know we are going the wrong way. The hostal is that way!

gotta love how the Tarifa people party...read this

                                              " The kitchen is open until the cook is drunk"