this weekend we went to Italica, Roman ruins in Spain, and Madrid. Italica was really cool. we got to see the third largest Colosseum in the world and ruins of Roman mansions. it was pretty neat. the Colosseum was definitely the coolest part and it got me excited to go to Rome! this is steph and i pretending to be gladiators
We left friday night and took a bus to Madrid. the hostel was really nice. we stayed in a room with just the 5 of us and had our own bathroom and got breakfast. it was great. on saturday we woke up early and walked to a temple and wondered around there. then we went to the Palace and toured it. it was sooo beautiful! i want a house like that when i get married (ha.. right) it was gorgous though, and really fun to wonder around a palace! this is all of us that went infront of the palace 
After the palace we went to this really cute little restaurant and had lunch, it was so adorable! and i had Paella for the first time. it was really good and probably my favorite spanish food so far! then we headed to the Plaza in the picture below and were really confused. the whole place was covered in people who were trying to be statues and things like that. most of them were really cool. except there were three old pooh bears that were pretty creepy.
down the next street we stumbled upon a meriochee (spelling?) band. they were so good! and this little old grandma kept getting in the middle of the circle and dancing by herself. she was really cute. i think she made the singer a little nervous though. ha.
after listening to them for a while we made our way to the Prado. definitely one of the highlights for me of the weekend. we got to see all kind of famous paintings that we learned about in CivArts at Grove City. my favorite was Las Meninas by Valesquez. we spent a good 3 hours plus in there finding all the masterpieces. it was great!
that night we met up with one of my apartment mates friends who are studying in Madrid and we went on a tapas walk that Kristen Pyles recommended. we only went to the first place though because the book didn't really tell us where these places were and we got a bit lost. lost people who are hungry are not the most fun people in the world. so we just went to the first place and then popped in another place for some dessert. it was fun though! we made up our own tapas walk.
the next morning we got up and went to a flee market. it was HUGE!!! i would have loved to spend the whole afternoon wondering through the tents but we soon made our way to the Sofia museum of modern art where we got to see Picasso's Guernica. it was really cool
Erica and i tried to be modern art
then it was just a 30 minute walk back to the hostel, a 10 minute metro ride, a 6 hour bus ride and were home! it was a lot of traveling but a great weekend!!this week so far has been very mello. recovering from our lack of sleep this weekend. i'm enjoying classes a lot. this afternoon a group of girls are going to go out for coffee and then tonight we are going to this flamenco bar. it's a really cool place. it's got an underground log cabin kind of feel and the dancers are incredible!
thursday night our program takes us to a real Flamenco show and then steph and i will hop on an overnight bus to madrid because we are spending a wonderfully romantic valentines weekend in Belgium! we found this little town called Bruge in a travel guide and just decided to go there. Godiva chocolate is made there (enough reason to go in itself) and they are known for cherry beer. there's also a lace factory we can tour. can you think of a better valentines than one complete with chocolate and waffles and lace? i'm so excited!
i'll write more and post more pictures next week when steph and i get back from Belgium. thank you for all of those who are praying for me! have a great Valentines everyone!
p.s. if you have any questions about what i'm doing or seeing or anything, feel free to comment and i'll try to answer it in the next post.
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