This past weekend… Thurs-Sunday (March 15-18) I was in Dublin, Ireland for St Patricks day!!! I have to say that it was on of the BEST experiences of this trip.. and of my life! I had an amazing time, and met so many cool people. I met tons of people from just about every European country, and even people from Southern California! I actually had an amazing “it’s a small world” experience when I first got to Dublin and was waiting for the bus stop. I happened to overhear the people behind me talking about San Diego, and it was a close family friend of my dear friend Emili!!! I had met this friend of hers at her party in September, and we talked forever because he is studying in Barcelona right now. So… What are the chances of running into him at the bus stop in Dublin??? I was shocked for a while about that, and thought it was awesome.

But, we flew into Dublin in the later afternoon of Thursday, and stopped for our first pint of Guinness at the first cool pub we saw. Me and Caitlin had an “irish car bomb” only in Ireland baby!!!  We checked into our hotel and then just went to some local bars and pubs. Our hotel actually had a huge bar in it, that turned into this big nightclub at night. It was perfect because we didn’t have to wait in the huge line outside, and got to use the clean bathrooms in our rooms!! Everynight we would end up there, if we didn’t hang out there for the majority. The bartender was so nice, and loved Caitlin ☺  Friday we woke up and had amazing full egg/bacon/bean/toast breakfast made at the hotel, delicious. And then we walked around the streets of Ireland, saw the outside of the Castle and Cathedral, and made our way to the Guinness Factory. Of course, my camera battery dies on the way!

The Guinness tour was awesome also! The line was outrageous, but we met some cool friends that were in line behind us, studying in Barcelona also. Caitlin and I were in the factory for hours, reading and touring, and drinking Guinness. The top of the 6 floor factory had a bar with just one huge window, so the view was the entire town of Dublin. We got a free pint at the top, and this is where we met a ton of people from all over the world. Everyone was so friendly and so interested in talking and meeting new people. It was a nice change from the closed off , rude people of San Sebastian. ☺

Saturday was sooooo fun. St Pattys Day!! Me and Caitlin watched the parade from Dame St.. and there were just thousands of people everywhere. We didn’t have the best view, but to be completely honest the parade wasn’t as crazy, or fun as I imagined. It was a little slow… but still wouldn’t have passed up the experience for anything else! Then we went to Temple Bar, which is an area in Dublin just filled with pubs, shops, and restaurants. We pub hopped all day, and definitely went into “the Temple Bar” which was ridiculously crowded, but fun nonetheless. Tons of awesome people were here too. Well we didn’t have a hotel room for Saturday night, because our flight left so early on Sunday, so we just hung out, ate, talked to people, and then ended up at the hotel we stayed at the nights before to get our luggage and hang out 1 last time! 4am, we were off to the airport, and then returned back to the intense weather of San Sebastian!

The past few days have been like 100-120 km/h winds!! I think that’s around 60-80 mph?? But I am not totally sure. The rain is on and off, sometimes pouring. I hope that it stops very very very soon though! Spring break is less than 2 weeks away! Ahhh I am so excited! Tomorrow is my final for my 2nd class of track 3, which means I am starting advanced Spanish next week! Scarrry but I am excited, because my Spanish keeps getting better and better!

Miss and Love everyone, and thanks for still reading about my adventures, only 2 more months until my amazing Ryan gets here, and that means a little over 3 months and Ill be home to see everyone and tell these stories in person. ☺

Its friiiiday!! and I would be so excited, but this whole week has been nothing but gross rain!!  The beginning of this weekend was stressful… 10 pg paper… Midterm Friday.. and then I have another one on Monday. Well, I wanted to enjoy my weekend, so I busted out my paper the beginning of this week. Payed off because I finished it!!! and got to “relax” the rest of the weekend, except it wasnt really relaxing because Ive been sick. Well its suppose to clear up and getting a little more warm… with sunday HOPEFULLY being another beach day! I want everyday to be a beach day buuuut oh well. There has been no new pictures.. because I forgot last weekend, and this weekend has been ugly.. but more soon hopefully..

I love everyone and miss them….

This weekend the weather in San Sabbbby has been amazing!!! Saturday we ended to the beach a little later in the afternoon, and got comparos amazing sandwiches and french fries and some heiny in a can and hung out all afternoon! The sun was shinning and it was so gorgeous! Brett brought his guitar and a ton of the kids in our program were just hanging out and having fun. Of course… I forget my camera! Oh well next time!! Then last night (saturday) me sabrina caitlin and dana made an aammazzing mexican food feast! ate till we couldnt anymore, and it was like heaven…

Today the weather was even better! Warmer, and sunnier! So after a morning bike ride.. and quick internet cafe stop… the huge group was down on the beach again. OH.. and this weekend was a No boot weekend! Its tooo hard to carry it, strap it on/off and blah blah on the beach.. the pain is there, not tooo horrible… but bearable. I know its probably not the best for me, but hey sometimes gotta make sacrifices right I forgot my camera though of course… and didnt take any pictures. But all of our friends we laying out and soaking it in. We left around 530pm.. and within the hour a huge storm wind hit. ha its insane how much the weather changes….

Its almost spring break!!! I have like 3 more weekends until spring break… 1 being Ireland!! and another one being a 3 day weekend. Time is flying and its awesome and kinda upsetting at the same time! I am so excited to see my friends/Family.. and soo excited for Ryan to get here already!! But I know when the time comes to leave, I wont want to.. or be ready to

Buuut thats my updates for now.. hopefully the rain wont last long.. and next weekend will be just as beautiful … then Ill bring my camera and share the experience.. visually

Talk to everyone soon. Love you!

I bought a bike a few weeks ago and is the greatest purchase ever made here! Her name is Aiesha.. and she is straight from the 80s. Think fluorescent yellow, pink, and purple. I feel that it is majorly helping with my foot.. because its not as much pressure as walking. I love it. HOWEVER… last night, I totally had an intense fall, and am feeling the pain today. It was raining, and Caitlin and I were riding home from the Cafe…. hit the curb wrong and went flyying!! Embarasssssing! Stupid Aiesha!!! But its okay…. Ill put pictures of her too!!! I had a photo shoot by the beach when it was so warm in San Sebastian.

Its been pretty sunny here, although with the breeze its pretty cold. And then sometimes out of no where it will start raining. Its pretty weird weather.. but hopefully soon it will be time to sit on the beach! (probably not to soon though…)

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!