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Barrio de Santa Cruz I think?
On Sunday I arrived in Alicante! Maica´s parents picked me up at the airport, I recognized them right away, and we drove to their apartment. They are being soo great and nice. It´s so fun being here. I can´t post pictures because I am using their computer but I wanted to blog a little so I don´t have a HUGE one to write when I get back to Sevilla. I´ll post all of the pictures on Friday or Saturday.
So we got to the apartment and they gave me a tour. It´s huge compared to my apartment in Sevilla. I´m staying in Maica´s old room which is fun, and I get my own big bathroom. The kitchen is so nice and modern, I think they just got it remodeled recently. There are pictures of Maica, Jamie, and the kids all over. It actually sort of made me a little homesick haha. After I unpacked my stuff, Maica´s sister Cristina, her husband Borris, and their daugher Cristina came over for lunch. They were so nice and fun to hang out with. Cristina is 4 and sooo cute. The 2 Cristina´s is sort of confusing, they call the 4 year old ´´la niña.´´ After we had a delicious lunch of chicken, french fries, and fish, Cristina, and Borris took me to el castillo. The big mountain/castle here. It was such a pretty view of the Alicante. I saw the hotel we stayed at when we came for Maica and Jamie´s wedding 10 years ago, and recognized a little bit of the centro and stuff. After el castillo, Cristina, the daugheter, and I went to this mall/play area and walked around for a bit. It was so nice of them to take me around for a few hours. I was so tired I came back, ate a little and went straight to bed.
The next day, Monday, I woke up at about 10:30, ate breakfast, which was great because I got to eat cereal which I haven´t had yet in Sevilla because my family doesn´t offer it to me, and fruit AND toast. Biggest breakfast I´ve eaten since I´ve been in Spain. It was really sunny out so I wanted to lay outside by the pool for a while. I knew I couldn´t swim in it but I had some reading to do for school and I wanted to be outside. Everyone thought I was crazy though because they thought it was freezing or something. It was like pretty hot though...just a little windy. But I thought it was perfect. So I layed outside for a while until lunch time. For lunch we had paella. MY FAVORITE. It was so good. Paco is a great cook. After lunch I took a little nap and then Paco, Carmen and I walked to Cristina´s apartment which is only like a 5 minute walk away, It´s super cute and has a really nice big terrace. Then Cristina, the daughter, me Paco and Carmen got in the car and Cristina drove us to the centro. We walked through this really cool neighborhood. Barrio de Santa Cruz I think? Really small streets and lots of stairs that led us up really high so we saw a great view of Alicante. And it was during sunset so it was beautiful! I also saw some Semana Santa processions which are a little creepy...when I post pictures you will understand. People walk around in huge groups with either really tall cones on their heads with robes and masks so they look like the KKK. Or they don´t have the tall cones but they are wearing white masks so they just look like weird ghosts. And then they carry these HUGE things with Jesus on them....I´m not really looking forward to going back to Sevilla where I think it´s going to be ten times more people and processions. And then I was watching the news today at lunch with Paco and Carmen and people like pretend they are Jesus and get attacked to wooden Crosses...We stopped in the church where Maica and Jamie got married I´m pretty sure. I didn´t really remember it but it was beautiful. And we got tapas for dinner at this cute tapa place. Ate this really good pork sandwich and mushrooms and potatoes. Yum. Oh and delicious sangria. Seriously I don´t know how to thank Paco, Carmen, and Cristina enough. They are being so nice to show me around and take time out of their day, and take me dinner, etc. I´m having such a great time, it´s just so relaxing. It´s exactly what I wanted to do. Then we got home so late, like 11:00, so I just showered and went straight to bed. Another great thing about being here is that I don´t have to take a 4 minute shower. (In Sevilla my water gets cold after about 4 minutes) so that was very relaxing haha. The new appreciation I have for certain things now is sort of funny.
Today I woke up around the same time, ate a great breakfast and got dressed. It´s very cloudy here but warm. So Carmen and Paco took me to their apartment at the beach San Juan about 15 minutes away. The apartment is great, super cute. I´m jealous Jamie and Maica and the kids get to spend 2 weeks there in June! And it´s like a 30 second walk to the beach. And the beach is beautiful!! It is SO clean, and there are bunch of play structures for kids. It was so warm out, it just wasn´t sunny. But it really didn´t matter because we still walked up and down the boardwalk and touched the ocean and sand for a bit. Then we stopped and had a beer and a tapa of this really good fish at this restaurant right on the beach called El Mayoral. They knew the waiter I guess, I got introduced to him, very nice man. And every so often someone would walk by the Carmen and Paco knew and they would introduce me and we would chat with them for a bit. It was so nice and everyone was so friendly. I actually loved this beach though, I reallllly want to come back to it some day. Then we drove home and had a delicious lunch here. We had this reallyyy good fish and veggies, and then strawberries and whipped cream for desert. It´s a good thing I´ve slowed down my eating here because I was about to just eat the whole fish but when I waited for Paco and Carmen to start eating first I noticed that they like took apart the whole thing because it was like a bunch of bones and skin that I wans´t supposed to eat haha. (In Granada I accidently ate a shrimp that was still in it´s shell and had the tail and legs attached to it still...it sort of hurt my throat) I´ve noticed here in Spain that you usally have to pick apart the fish from the bones and the tail before you can eat it. I still forget sometimes though. Then after lunch I took a little siesta and now I´m just browsing around on the internet and I might study a little because I have one of my finals next week. I´m just having such a great time. It´s so nice not having to worry about meeting up with people are going to a disco teca. I needed a little break. I don´t know how I´m ever going to thank them for having me! Again, sorry for no pictures right now, this weekend they will come.
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