It always takes me so long to post all my pictures, and write about the adventures that I take when I travel, but better late than never! The weekend before last… Feb 16-20, my girlfriends and I went on another adventure. This time.. it was to celebrate el Carnaval!! which is a celebration for Lent, and Easter.. and kinda similar to what we have in the good ol U. S. of A. But here in Spain, they go allll out!! Tuesday, is when “Lent” starts, and so the weekend is the last time for everyone to indulge and celebrate. Everyone dresses up in Costumes, masks, wigs…. and dance, sing, and parade in the streets. I read that Cadiz was one of the towns that celebrated the biggest!! Cadiz is a city in the very south of Spain, more on the west of the Country. We had a four day weekend, so we also wanted to see some other places, and decided on first flying into Malaga… which is also south, but more on the east side. We bused it all night friday (12am-7ish) to Madrid, to barely making our flight to Malaga at 8amish…. it was crazy running through the airport, but an experience that made the ending that much more interesting We spent all day of the 17th, the night, and half of the 18th in Malaga. The weather was sooo amazing!! It was sunny and pretty warm when we got there… warm enough to wear my bathing suit top on the beaches! You can see yourself how beautiful it was from the millions of pictures that I took…. I think I was obsessed with the beach when we first got there. Malaga was alot more mellow than Cadiz, only small celebrations at night, and very calm in the day. Saturday night was my first night without my boot!!!! NO BOTA! haha It was pretty exciting, since Ive had to wear this stupid thing for a lot longer than I expected or wanted…. A little painful, and I still wear it everyday but hey, I thought…. special occasion, I wanna indulge!! On Sunday, we took another bus ride to Cadiz, and it rode all along the coast, and was also a beautiful day! Arrived the early evening, and after finding and settling into our hotel rooms, we went down to the beach and to find some food. The beach wasnt as pretty as Malaga… and neither are as gorgeous as San Sebastian…. but still nice! Monday the 19th… we took a fairy to the actual town of Cadiz… because we stayed about 15minutes outside, due to every other hotel being booked!! and toured the city. It was a little overcast…. which sucked because it was a rare occasion that it wasnt sunny! Of all the times for it to be overcast?!?! Oh well…..then the last of our adventures for the day was a bus tour of the city! Christi and Julie talked a bus driver into taking us on a 30min tour.. on one of those double decker buses. So we had the whole top to ourselves, and we just rode around and took pictures and saw the beautiful city. The people in the town loved it… and waved and were yelling hello at us and were so excited. The people in the south of Spain definitely seem to be a lot sweeter and more pleasant to be around. People here are a little harsh, but oh well. The nights were pretty crazy, but we saw the most action on that monday the 19th. The town had hundreds and hundreds of people in the center… all kinds of shops and kiosks open, and many people in costumes parading around and singing.. pictures should be up, if not now.. very soon Unfortunately, we missed our bus to get back to Malaga from Cadiz on tuesday… and had to take a 3 hr taxi ride. But hey.. again just made the experience that much more exciting and adventures to talk about. The cab driver eventually had to tell Caitlin, Sabrina, and I to stop talking and laughing so hard because his head hurt.. hahahahha. poor taxi driver. But we made it safe and sound to Malaga… and made our flight to Madrid!!! We had to spend a lot of time waiting at the bus station and airport… and finally after another midnight bus ride returned in time for a nap, and school on Wednesday!!

It was another great trip… so minor mishaps.. but as my good friend Sabrina says… “What are you going do? we can we do?” haha Just gotta keep on keepin on

I am taking it easy, and now going to enjoy the town I live in, until my next adventure of Ireland for St. Patricks day!! Me and Caitlin are going, with some other friends from school… and hope to have the time of our lives!

Enjoy the gorgeous pictures of Malaga and Cadiz, and will talk to everyone soon!

loveeeeees!

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