Saturday February 19th- Sunday the 20th

This weekend was a lazy relaxing weekend. On Saturday Maggie and I went out for tapas with our Senora. We had the usual 3 pork tapas for each of us. We had to walk back before walking where we wanted to go because our Senora says she has bad balance so we walked her back to the house. Maggie and I then walked to the Albaycin which is the beautiful arab neighborhood near the Alhambra. It was quite a hike to make it up there, but definitely worth the hike once we got to the top. We relaxed at a popular meeting place but unfortunately it was really crowded... with creepers. As Maggie and I were trying to relax in the sun, two creepy old men were peeking around the corner of a building talking about us and staring at us. Finally they went away. Of course they were talking about the girl with brown hair, which was me... I attract all the creepers.

After walking down we walked around for a long time visiting the awesome shops in the Albaycin neighborhood. I was very excited to buy a sweatshirt that looked like the one I lost in Munich/England. And the guy who sold it to me was really nice, and gave us a free thing of tea!

While walking back, we spotted one of the best gelato places so far! I was so excited to have pistachio, my favorite kind of icecream. I also got a fancy chocolate flavor mixed in. Since I had no homework to catch up on when I got home, I decided to sit outside and take in the nice sunlight and read. But of course I can't have a peaceful moment too long without something awkward happening. We have a small shallow river that's underground that Maggie and I just refer to as the lake. You can look over a gate to see the water running. As I was sitting on a bench enjoying my book I hear this women looking over the gate into the lake yelling, "Chica! Chica! Toma el pan! Which is girl girl take the bread! Since there were a couple other people looking over the gate, I'm thinking, oh my god there's a girl in there and she's drowning and the women is giving her bread... or something. So I get up and look over, and it's just come crazy women yelling at the geese swiming in the lake and feeding them. After the others left, the lady still stayed there for about 10 minutes yelling at the geese.

On Sunday Maggie and I got ready and went to mass. I had never been to catholic mass before, let alone in Spanish, so I was confused most of the time, and the echo made it very difficult to understand. As usual I was hungry and couldn't pay attention. Maggie and I were very excited to have chicken and rice that day because when our sister is gone she usually makes it because our sister doesn't like it. But today it was very disappointing because before we left our senora said that her stomach hurt too much to make lunch, so she gave us money to buy some. But when we came back we were confused because it turns out she wanted us to bring it back and just drink something from home. So that was an awkward misunderstanding. Especially when we came home to her making a cake.