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| Beautiful view...and I don't mean us ;) |
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| The cave! |
Our program director, Luis, organized a hike for us on November 6. It was very fun and very beautiful. However, it was exhausting! I think we all expected a little something different when Luis said hike. It was a hike, pretty much straight uphill all the way! My legs and my calves were burning! The whole time we were going along Luis seemed perfectly fine, like he was used to this intense exercise! He reminded me of my Grams who I am sure would have beat all of our 22 year old butts up the mountain! We reached a point near the top and sat to eat lunch. The cool thing part about the hike is that some Spanish students joined us! We were able to practice our Spanish while also… enjoying… their loud personalities on the bus to and from the mountain. I talked to one boy for the most part, his name was Pepe and he was super nice! I laughed at his name though because I had never met a Pepe, and that is the name our teacher always uses for examples! I learned Pepe is actually a nickname for Juan (John). I kind of want to start calling my brother John Pepe from now on.
We also went into the Coves del Canelobre. When we arrived at the site, Maggie pulled out a sandwich and all the sudden she was swarmed by about 10 bees! She ran behind me to protect herself and of course I ran away from her while yelling, “What are you doing!? I don’t want them swarming me too!!” So she found a trash can, ran over to it and threw away her sandwich… a small sacrifice for her life, at least I think so. We went through this long tunnel to access the caves and they were pretty beautiful. It reminded me of being with my dad and Girl Scout Troop in Tucson at Kartchner Caverns. They set up lights throughout the room that when I look back at the pictures I think of the fabulous lights of Las Vegas. A little random, I know, it is like comparing apples and oranges! Now, pictures were not actually allowed to be taken in the cave so I did claim that I photographed these pictures. However, my classmates them, so thank them for their wonderful photography.
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| At the food expo! YUM-O! |
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| Celebrating Nicole's birthday with some kind of cakey thing! |
The next day was Nicole’s birthday! She wanted to botellon- drink in the streets. We got all gussied up and went out on the town. I was pretty much sober the entire night, except for the glass of caramel vodka and coke I had, which by the way tastes like vanilla coke! We went to el barrio and hung out there for the rest of the evening. Maggie felt the need to say hi to everybody, and I am not kidding, I mean EVERYBODY!! Which was not a terrible thing; we made some new Spanish friends that I was able to practice my Spanish with more- that is the one advantage to going out. I stayed out until about 3 before I could not do it anymore. So I headed home and let the girls enjoy the rest of their evening, well morning I should say. The next day Colleen, Maggie and I went to the food expo! We indulged in some free samples of cheese and we could not resist paying a couple euros for the chocolate fountain. It was well worth it!
This post isn’t as action packed <lol as my others have been, but they are more adventures of me in Alicante! I hope you were thoroughly entertained!
Much Love!
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