HOLA! Finally a post from me and my lover….

Ryan finally got here on the 24th! We spent some time in San Sebastian, so I could show him around.. but unfortunately the weather wasnt the best. a little rain, some winds.. but it was still a good time! I look forward to going back, and showing him the good sunny side of San Saby..

We left for Paris the night of the 30th, spent the 31st in Paris (reunited with Sabrina for a final goodbye!! ), and then hopping on a plane the morning of the 1st (June) to Athens, Greece. Greece was beautiful-check out the pics.

We took a ferry to Santorini.. but of course a day late cuz we had to camp outside a store and wait to pick up his wallet (my bad) But luckily.. we got everything back and had a great time on the islands of Santorini. Black sand beaches, massages, and cocktails… couldnt ask for more!! It rained there also unfortunately, but we still saw some great stuff. On the 6th we headed to Rome.. where we started our Italy adventures.

Rome for a few days, then off to Florence. Florence didnt have much to offer in our opinions, and after seeing the David statue, we left for Cinque Terra. AMAZING. Cinque Terra.. or “5 Terra” is 5 little towns all connected with a train, or a path to hike. We hiked between all 5 towns, and 5 hours later arrived at the last one. It was along the cliffs of the beaches, and beautiful. After a few days, we went to Venice for a day, before arriving in Germany! Munich was our first stop, and we loved it! Beer gardens and liters of beers!!! Also some huuuuuge pretzels. Beautiful city…. but then off to Prague, (CZECH it out!!) Beautiful city also… the people, eh.. Ive met some nicer ones. I got to see my friend Caitlin! so that was great…

That brings us to Berlin, Germany… our current location. Again—unfortunately– it rained pretty hard today. but we still got time to walk around, and see some cool stuff… look for the pictures and we will update later..

I loved Portugal.. I pictured paradise, and it was just that!! Lisbon (the capital) wasnt as much of the tropical paradise, but still really pretty. We werent in the town for very long, we arrived in the morning after a 14 hr train ride…luckily it was through the night so we spent a lot of it sleeping. On saturday night (4/28) we took a bus to southern portugal…to a beautiful town called Lagos. It was amazing, the weather, the beaches, the water, everything. We ate good food, met fun people, went to some fun bars, and definitely got tan laying on the beaches! Monday we went kayaking through the Grottos. The grottos are these tall rock type things.. I dunno but the pictures show the beauuuty of it! After some much needed relaxing and stuff… we got a plane back to madrid, and took the dreaded 6 1/2 hr bus ride back to San sabby. Unfortunately we returned to not so great weather.. but a short week of school!!!

Next week is my final week, Even though I have lots of projects and papers to write I am so excited for it to all be over!!! and Lets all hope that the San Sabby weather gets better!!

Love and miss everyone!!

So finally, I am getting around to writing a little something about my spring break. I should however be attempting to write my 10 page paper that is due next week.. but thats the last thing I really want to be doing now. I just got all the pictures uploaded, and of course even with the group of spring break pictures being around 140.. thats not even half of all of them! But I put the general good ones up

My spring break started with Krystal getting here on April 1. It was soo exciting finally seeing a familiar face!! We did hair all day and just chatted and caught up, finishing the night at Obrien’s of course, showing her my favorite place and using the internet a bit.

The next day we just tripped around San Sebastian for a bit, did a little shopping, some eating with Mertxe, and hanging out with Sabrina. Sabrina made us a wonderful dinner before we had to rush and catch the night bus to Barcelona. We got to Barcelona on the 3rd and had a few hours to look around the city. We had a close call when we almost missed the bus ride to the airport! But we made it.. and took the plane to Venice.

Venice was gorgeous! Despite having annoying problems with my ATM card, the city was just what was expected. No cars, motos, nothing.. only walking along the coblestone alleys, and of course a gondola ride thru the rivers, but we didnt do that this time. We ate some pretty good food, and met some awesome people that showed us how to cook a “real” Italian dish. We were in the back of a restaurant cooking all kinds of good stuff!! We saw some cool sites like Saint Mark’s Basilica and some other awesome churches with cool architecture. I fed some pigeons too!

The next stop was Rome.. and although a little disappointing… definitely had some amazing sites to see. It was disappointing in how dirty the outsides of the town was, but Ancient Rome, and the downtown section was so cool! We saw all kinds of cool Ancient sites.. the Colosseum, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Ruins, The Vatican…. all of which you can see throughout my pictures!! We went out one night, and danced and had a good time… and definitely quotes ron burgandy hundreds of times… “WHEN IN ROME……”

After Rome, we went to Paris.. where I was finally reunited with mi madre!!! I was sooo excited to finally see that woman! All of us were pretty tired from all the traveling, and we just found a place to eat and walked around near our hotel in Paris. The next day was when we set out for the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, The Louvre Museum, and some of the other monuments of Paris. The city was a little disappointing also… just being very expensive and coming across some rude people. That however, did make me have a bad time… it was interesting to see all the sites, shop, eat, and just hang with my mother and krystal. The Eiffel Tower at night was gorgeous…. lots of cool lights. Didnt get a chance to go to the top of the Tower, but I hope to do that when Ryan and I go back!!

The last stop before returning to San Sabbbby was London. Unfortunately.. our flight screwed us over and changed the outgoing flight to early early morning, so we only had literally 8 or so hrs so see all of what London had to offer. It was waaay expensive because of the conversion of the pound, so we didnt pay to go into to many of the attractions. We just admired the beauty from the outside. We went to the Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Tower of London and Bridge of London, and some other stuff… which of course you should look at through my pictures!

It was nice to finally return home to San Sebastian and see Mertxe and really show my mom and Krystal the town. I wish the weather could have been a little better for them… but I still think we had a good time. My mom and Mertxe hit it off very well.. and Im soooo happy that they got a chance to meet. We walked around alot, and shopped, ate.. etc… Krystal left early sunday, and didnt get a chance to hike with us to Monte Urgull… but mertxe, my mom, and I took a nice hike and saw the beautiful views. My mom and I.. with Caitlin, made Mertxe some stuffed bell peppers.. which turned out good. I ditched school on Monday- and hung out a little bit more with my mom before I had to send her off on the train for Paris that night, so she could catch her Tuesday flight. I was sad to see her go, and worried that she wouldnt make it! But of course she did!!!!

Now– next on the list is posting my pictures and good times in Portugal!! Last weekend was a holiday here, so we had 2 days off from school. My girlfriends here and I went to Portugal for one last trip together before we all had to leave. Its soooo odd how fast the time actually flew! I see my lover in 3 weeks.. and my friends in 2!! I am so exciiiiiiited!!

Look back soon for the pictures of the spring break to post.. and the new stuff with Portugal!

…was amazing! And was so sad to see my mom and Krystal go. I saw my mom off last night to the train, and shes on the plane right now heading toward San Diego. I miss her already! But time is going to flyyy by. I have like 3 weeks of full school, and then a short week.. and then Im done! Kerry is coming on the 17th!!! and then Ryan finally gets here on the 24th!

I am in the process of getting my pictures ready, and then Ill write more about what I actually did, so stay posted.

And to all my friends and rest of my family at home, Ive made it through the half way point. Ive been gone a little more than 3 months, and in 3 more months, Ill be home!

Love and miss everyone..

I posted new pictures in the group of pictures called…  “Random” and also in. “Beautiful Beaches and the City of San Sebastian”.. CHECK THEM OUTTT!!! The new “Random” pics are from the first night we found a sushi restaurant!! and also from this really cool tight rope walking show. San Sebastian got a new theater, and the first week had a bunch of performances, and this one was outside and free!! Someone tight rope walked across the river, and there were fire works, and tons of people! The pictures from the “Beaches of San Sebastian” are from a few weeks ago, when the weather was beauuuutiful!!! There hasnt been weather as beautiful as that sunday morning for a while… but I had to post them to show everyone the most beautiful city ever!! It has a lot of my morning bike path.. when I can ride on it anyways.

So enjoy the wonderful new pics.. and dont forget about the ones from Ireland!

I am really excited cuz I leave in 1 week for my 2 week spring break adventure!!