Jerez y Cadiz

May 29th, 2010

Oh golly, met at Hotel Becquer at 9 am and made our way to Jerez. We visited the largest bodega(winery) in Europe known for their sherry wine. When we got there the first thing I noticed was the name on the building. It said "DRY SACK" of course being the immature little girl that I am I started cracking up and took pictures.. We then went inside and saw a horse show with a gorgeous brown and black horse. Check F*book later for a video!!! Then we got a tour of the bodega and learned how the age and stock there wine. The barrells are stacked 4 high and when they take wine out of the bottom barrell, they will add the newest wine at the top and trickle it down into the older barrells. The process was really interesting... BUT what was even MORE interesting was the tour guides accent. I felt like the biggest bitch ever.. I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING... hahaha... it was a German accent.. and he couldnt say his R's... poor guy had to say SHEWY WINE BAWELLS like every other sentence.. haha it was so funny.. I had to turn around so he couldnt see me laughing.. WOW.

Then we got to taste the wine. We were tasting 3 out of the 8 possible sherry wines produced. One of them was the so called "sweetest" of them all with the most sugar, one was a white sherry, and another was just terrible.. I only enjoyed the white wine.. the other two were way too strong and I couldnt even bare finishing them. OH WELL.

Hopped back on the bus and headed to Cadiz. When we got there we instantly saw the beautiful old architecture and gorgeous OCEAN of course!! We first stopped for some lunch. We all got ham and cheese sandwichs.. big suprise!! Ham is SO common here.. its like all thats ever on the menu for meat.. that and fish..ANYWAY... after eating we went to the supermarket. Carly and I bought sun tanner that was ORANGE.. annnnd court and lyssa bought sunscreen.. I should have stuck with them!!

We went to the beach.. and holy WOW I have never seen so many boobs in MY LIFE.. It was insane.. but sooo normal to them.. We walked far far away from all of the other ISA kids and found a good HOT spot in the sand by the gorgeous aquamarine colored water!! We baked in the sun all day and went and swam in the ocean for an occassional cool down.. Of course I got burnt like a lobster.. but its TAN now!!! =]

We decided to take the train back so that we could stay longer. We ended up leaving around 6 and found ourselves searching the city for some ice cream!! We found a candy shop and I got a delicious cone and the girls got these ice cream sandwich/popsicle concocktions. Went to the train station waited an hour for the train.. 2 of the girls first train ride EVER! How exciting haha. We got on and sat down by these bratty middle school spaniard kids.. I LOVE WHEN THEY THINK I CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR SAYING ABOUT ME.. so obnoxious.. They were making fun of how red I was haha. We moved for a while thinking no one would be getting on... we were WRONG. But we played a killer game of never have I ever and eventually had to move back by the brats cause we were in peoples seats.

We actually started having a conversation with them after they asked if I understood.. then they felt REAL dumb.. pretty funny. We talked about politics... how the one kid said he filmed porn movies.. YEA RIGHT YOU ARE LIKE 12... about Spanish and much more.. Ended up being kind of fun/funny. Got home took a taxi and pigged out on delicious pasta Senora made! SO GOOD.

Sunday May 30th

I DID NOTHING ALL DAY. ALL I DID WAS WATCH THIS PAST SEASON OF DANCING WITH THE STARS ONLINE... HOW FUN...

Oh but I did get to talk to every single family member I know pretty much on SKYPE! Including my momma, meryl, marian, my 92 year old grandpa, Irene, Gamra, Uncle Rusty, aunty nance, and even LILLY!!! How fun!!!

Ry & I also planned a bunch of fun stuff we are planning to do this summer!! Cant wait!!

Monday May 31st

Happy Memorial Day!! =] Had class today from 4-8. Beforehand lyssa and I went to the candy shop on our street again. I bought these starburst looking things, strawbs & cream and those twizzler swirly things! Yum!! After class the girls went and got ice cream at Hagaan Daaz. SO GOOD. Dulce de Leche.. like always was amazing. Dint take the tram home since we took it on the way to class when it was 97!!! Oy. Got home.. and had the BEST THING EVER HAPPEN TO ME!!! I dont know if you guys know.. but Ive been having the hardest time sleeping here. One because its sooo hot no air conditioning, 2 because a mosquito buzzes in my ear every night and gives me a new bite, and 3 the bed is soo uncomfortable. WELL!!!! I knocked out 2 out of the 3 problems!! Senora gave me a FAN!!! YAYYY! & a plug in mosquito repelent thingy!!! IM SOO HAPPY! Never been more grateful in my liiiife. I think tonight Ill have a chance to sleep well for the first time!!

For dinner we had an "italian meal" as Sandra called it. It looked like enchiladas, but had the same ingredients as lasgna pretty much! LOTS OF CHEESE THOUGH! So good!! I loved it. Also had some coliflauer(sp?) that was pretty good as well!! Goodnight Sevilla!! Buenas Noches! <3