Slacking. On to France.

So. Last time I wrote, it was about getting into France! No border patrol really. Of course not. This is Europe! So I slept in on Tuesday, June 20, 2012. Mom and Dad went and got some divine baked goods and got our lunch as well. By the chocolate place I had a picture of! Off to drive then! We had a 4 hour drive up to Albi, France, so we hit the road. Once thing Mom noticed, of course, was that there were actually rest areas in France, and they were nice ones! Thank heaven. I swear. There are none on the highways in Spain. Seriously. One we stopped at had a nice little tribute to a part of the Tour de France. It was nice. We also got to snack on homemade butter with sausage and bread. And as a special treat....MACAROONS. Amazing.


Couldn't find parking! I think trying to find parking is the most stressful thing of traveling by car. Never know where to park the thing. Once, we did, we walked up to visit the Albi cathedral. It is the world's largest brick building. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself. The inside was really nice, with a big choir room that was behind the main worshiping part of the cathedral, with a very intricate ceiling. It was nice to have the audioguide to interpret what we were looking at. All of the walls and everything were painted instead of adorned with as many statues. It was unique in that way from all the other cathedrals I have been in. It was nice to see something different. Cathedrals start looking alike after the first 3 or so. We also toured the museum next to the cathedral with some interesting paintings in it. We almost got locked in, haha the guards were speaking to us in French and we had no idea what they were saying but they thought we knew.

BRICKS

Such talent 

Onto where we were staying for the night! I felt like Dad was taking us to the middle of nowhere, cause the GPS seemed to have a really hard time finding it. I thought maybe he had surprised us with camping for the last night in France since it pointed to an open field. Oh was I so wrong. Once we arrived at the real place, it was the complete opposite. We, ladies and gentlemen, were sleeping in a castle for the night. Yes, a small one, but, a castle is a castle people!!!!! It was gorgeous! Dad couldn't find the entrance. haha "But....how do you get into the castle?" The owner, Bridgette, was a really tall, kind, French lady. She showed us to our room, and it was just like I had stepped into Pride and Prejudice. A canopy, large mirrors, a mannequin with an antique dress and bonnet, old photographs, with a beautiful little key to open and close our door. Seriously. Has to be one of the coolest places I've ever been. It had a little hedge maze in the back, a pool, swings, and an old building where they use to keep birds? There was even a tower on our castle. Sweet! There were also old books, and music placed around the house. Very nice feel to the place. We decided to finish off the contents of our lunch for dinner, so we just brought it out and ate it on a table on the outside of the house. We didn't use knives, plates, or anything. We used the paper the bread and things were wrapped in before for our place mats, ate olives out of a packet, Dad was sitting with his shoes off and resting on an empty chair, and we were using our hands. Mind you, Bridgette came to ask us why we hadn't brought out plates or anything. Totally forgot, that in France, they are SUPER uptight about manners and eating with utensils and everything for meals. She probably thought we were the most disgusting people ever. I'm sorry America for shaming your name with such "slobs." Oh well, it tasted so good and that's all that I really cared about in the end. So we soaked it all in for the evening while it lightly rained, then went to sleep.

Wednesday June 21, 2012
Woke up, even slept in, and went to eat breakfast of croissants and intricate jellies. Yes I just described it like that. I guess Dad and Mom had a tour of the castle, I wanted to at least read a little bit out of my Pride and Prejudice book before leaving the castle. After leaving the castle, we were going to see ANOTHER castle. A bigger castle. The one used in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner in it. The Carcassonne Castle. Btw. We went past Toulouse, France, and found out later that day that there was a bank there where 8 hostages were taken and not released for most of the day! Scary! Anyways, we took some less trodden roads to Carcassonne through the French forest roads. It was really pretty. It felt almost like we were jsut driving around Scout Mountain or something. The castle in Carcassonne was pretty touristy, set up with many a shop and restaurant inside and overly priced carriage rides. But it was such the typical castle, you had to be impressed. Lots of towers with a cathedral as well of course. There was a really neat group of men that sang in the church. I was stupid enough not to put my memory card back in my camera before going, I kept thinking I had dropped it! Or someone somehow stole it for some odd reason as passing me by. 

Aw. Mom and Dad

After exploring the castle, we set off for Barcelona. Long ways. And along the way, Dad wanted to go past some more archaic, castle ruins in the French country. Well. That was quite the drive.  Windy and took us a long time. How I explained it to my brother Lane. "so we were going down this random country road in France today, and there's this huge tank in the middle of nowhere, like an army tank, so Dad is like, hmm. let's drive up this road and take pictures of it! It must be some sort of war memorial!!! so we drive, take pictures, and drive down the road some more and it ends up to be a freaking military base. And Dad is just la-dee-da-ing while there are men dressed in military uniforms on base. I was like Dad, make a U-turn IMMEDIATELY. I don't want to die because we were stupid tourists. They'll probably think we are spies! He took forever to finally decide to turn around. Wow. just wow."  

That was quite the experience. Anyways, long story short, we ditched the whole idea of seeing the other castles. The GPS was not leading us to anywhere with inhabitants, not even close, and the roads were getting sketchier and sketchier and we were running out of gas. We took a bigger looking road back to start our journey over again in Carcassonne, and it seriously took us 10 minutes or 15 max, where it took us an hour to get where we decided to turn around at on the mountain roads. RIDICULOUS. 

Drove to Montserrat, a little town outside of Barcelona, a much better alternative, where our hostel was for the next 3 nights. And passed out. Long days of traveling man.

The Basque Country

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Drove all day. Seriously. Left around 9 a.m. and got to Eskoriaza, a small town about an hour drive away from Bilbao, around 5 or 6 p.m. The drive. Was in short. Long. haha ironic word usage there. Pretty sure we only stopped for bathroom breaks and some diesel. It was really cool seeing the landscape change so drastically from desert in the south with ridiculously hot weather, to rolling mountains and forests in the north with cooler, rainier temperatures. The rain clouds just appeared out of nowhere when we went through the first mountain pass. We stayed at a house in the countryside. It was all brand new, the owners, Ani and Alex, had bought the house 10 years ago as an old, abandoned, caved-in house. They started from scratch and made it into a beautiful hotel. Super clean and everything was very tasteful. Ani had another job, so she was gone for a large part of the time. She spoke English, but Alex did not. So I acted as translator for him and my parents throughout our 3 day stay there. Good practice to say the least. haha. So we just hung out there for the night and Alex made us dinner. Salad, steak, olives, bread, etc. Yum! very good steak.

View from our room

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Bilbao bound today! Had breakfast at the hotel with fresh squeezed orange juice. my favorite :) We drove on the million toll roads to get in there and found some parking. Our first stop was the Guggenheim museum. Suuuuper cool building if I do say so myself. The main artist they were displaying inside was really neat. His name is David Hockney and he's a famous painter from England. Some of the modern art was almost disturbing I wont lie, but there was a really neat piece of art made with gigantic pieces of iron called "the wave" I think. You got to explore the spirals and stacks the artist made in that piece because it was that big. There is also a really cool dog sculpture outside the museum covered in a variety of bright and bold colored flowers. It was really hot in Bilbao that day. Dad wanted to head over to the old part of the town next to see the cathedral, so we walked the few kilometers it was away. There was a bridge we went over that looked a lot like some of the modern ones in Valencia. There was a little international fair going on too. When we got to the cathedral we couldn't enter because it is closed to tourists on Sundays. So we walked around and got some bakery treats while waiting for a decent time to go get Pintxos :) They are like Spanish tapas (little servings of food, kind of like appetizers) but they are the Basque version with a slice of bread and toppings on top with toothpicks through them. They are all at the bar and you grab a plate, grab the ones you like, and then the waiter will charge you according to the number of toothpicks you have in total. We ate a few good ones and thought we would go to some other places, but ended up just heading back to the hotel. It had been a long day of exploring for sure.

Bubbles!

Puppy!!

(Photos for this day courtesy of my father, since I guess I forgot to upload mine on my laptop!)

Monday, June 18, 2012

Leisurely took our time to leave Eskoriatza. Had breakfast and talked with Alex about Idaho (We were the first Americans to stay at their place since they opened up in February) and he talked about Basque culture. After that, we headed off to San Sebastian. Yeee. My friend Alberto here told me that San Sebastian was his favorite place and that I had to make sure to go there. It only took us a few hours in the car and then we just picked a parking garage and walked down by the port to eat some lunch, aka more pintxos and tapas!! We stuffed ourselves at one place and had a thing called mosto, which is just grape juice with a fancy name haha. We also met a family there from Soda Springs that was vacationing there for a few days!! What a small world. My dad was wearing a Tetons shirt, so the lady asked where we were from. Crazy man.
Did a little shopping after we filled up on lunch, they had some pretty neat stores. We wandered over to the port and walked down to the beach. There were tons of fish you could see in the sea! It was only about 65 or 70 degrees our and really overcast, so it wasn't good weather to go swimming. Sad day. Got some sand for me and then walked back to some more stores to buy some stuff. We stopped and had churros with hot chocolate, since I had been raving and ranting to my mom how much more delicious their hot chocolate here is. Yum.
And then we were off! To San Juan de Luz, just across the French border from San Sebastian. Got to our hotel, dude didn't speak much English. And. our hotel was above a restaurant! Ha! It was a really small town, and we were only 200 meters from the beach or less, Dad and I didn't feel too well, all that rich food had made our stomachs a little queasy, so we took a walk down to the beach and around the little downtown they had. Walked past an amazing chocolate store that had sculptures made of chocolate. Sweet! Mom saved me from walking into some dog crap. It was quite hilarious as she suddenly jerked me away from it. All the onlookers were laughing so much. I thought a car was going to hit me or something the way Mom reacted. hahaha. You guys probably didn't need to hear that, but it was freaking hilarious after the fact. Saw the sun set behind some clouds that made the sky light up in a pretty pink. Then we walked back to the hotel to get some shut eye.

San Sebastian

San Juan de Luz

Chocolate!

Sunset :)

Leaving Ronda...

Friday, we left Ronda to head over to Sevilla. Dad and I went on a run before having a schmorgesborg of tasty Spanish food for breakfast. It's so pretty running in the countryside, and though my bed always sounds better than waking up and jogging, I never regret it. It's always so beautiful and refreshing. Dad filled up 3 plates. It was hilarious. Mom loved the olive oil we got with our bread the night before, she wanted to drink it. hahaha. We also smuggled some food for the drive later too. The owner seriously was the sweetest lady ever. She made sure to keep us as comfortable as possible. So we said goodbye and left the fairy-tale like farm in the country side to go see La Cueva de las Piletas, it's a cave that was found in the 1920s that has thousands of cave drawings from thousands of years ago. It was kinda scary, the little old man guiding the tour wouldn't let us use artificial light (i.e. flashlights, phones, etc.) and only gave us a few karosine lanterns every 3rd or 4th person to light our path up through the cave. After he dispersed the lanterns, he also locked us into the cave. If something would happen to him, we'd be dead meat. It was really slick, but I'm glad they had carved some steps in. There were some pictures of horses, goats, bows and arrows, a lunar calendar, and fish. There were animal bones found in the cave and also human bones found in the cave that the other humans had EATEN. Dad said, "It's foreshadowing of what's to come." Creeper. The cave ran really deep, surprising to thing these ancient people could make their way that far into the cave without lights or anything. They must have had that whole thing memorized by heart.  Mom made some Swiss friends while we went in, she didn't want to go in. So after that we took off to Sevilla.
Long drive with lots of sunflower fields. Sevilla is a mess to drive through. My gosh. No parking and full of one way roads. We parked in a garage and found our hotel....hostel....smallest thing in the world. filled with many a young backpacker. We got the "special room up on the terrace." We had a bunk bed and a futon sort of thing and a shower. It was seriously probably half the size of my room back home, including the shower. And the bottom bunk was pretty much just on the ground. Hahahaha funny. Then we decided to go to the cathedral to see it. It's the biggest one in Europe, you can fit Notre Dame in it! But alas, it was closed when we got there :'( Sorry parents!!!! So we decided to try and find something to eat at 6 pm. Usually it's IMPOSSIBLE to find anything open at 6 pm serving dinner or any type of real food. But, we found one touristy place selling stuff. Yay! :) No more grumpy pants from any of us that were boiling in the heat. It's was so freaking hot. I don't know how we handled it. The old quarters closed too soon for us to go in their either. So we headed back in the direction we though we came from (a guide led us to the cathedral cause we were going to go on a long walking tour, but bagged it because it seemed like a long time walking 3 hours in the sun.) We made it though! Saw some cool shopping center with a huge Spanish flag on it. Then we dropped some stuff off to go to the flamenco show! Last time I came I was so impressed with it, with the theatre it was in, with the dancers, etc, that I knew that was one thing my parents shouldn't miss. So a guy guided us from our hostel to the place we were going to go see the show. It was NOTHING like the one I had gone to before.....It was in the back of a cafe/bar with fold up chairs all around the tiniest stage I had ever seen. I had no idea how even one dancer could fit on there! The singer, guitarist (made such funny faces and weird twitches he kinda looked retarded), and the dancers were all extremely talented, but it's hard to take seriously in such a place! We definitely went to the tiniest Flamenco dancing place in all of Sevilla. Seemed like this time around everything was much smaller. The hostels, the shows, the parking spaces....We led ourselves back to the hostel thanks to the help of Dad's GPS and went to sleep to get up to drive to Bilbao.

The Sevilla Cathedral. Christopher Columbus's remains are inside this place. (supposedly. The aren't exactly sure where his bones ended up with them switching it around all the time.)

España <3

Flamenco show......What??!

And the road leads on.

Tuesday. Woohoo. Woke up and made crepes for breakfast for the fam and for Ana. We decided to take her with us in the rental car to her pueblo called Pego about an hour and a half south of Valencia since she was planning on going down there anyways that day and it was on our way out of Valencia.
Walked down by the train station where the rental place was and got our car! It was large in European standards. haha. It's a Leon Ibiza. So Ana was our guide out of the city to her house. It ended up being her beach house we were taking her to. Oh my goodness the beach she lives on is AMAZING. I'm planning on visiting at least once before I leave it's really cool. Her mom was thrilled to have visitors even if my parents didn't speak a hint of Spanish and she knew no words in English. She wanted to take us to lunch, so we headed off to a restaurant and had paella. Her mom made her brother tag along, don't know how thrilled he was at that, but he talked with my mom quite a bit about the business he and his dad own. We then set off to go on our own adventure. I think it'll be more fun to use pictures to illustrate our trip so far since I'm a bit behind in my writing, so for now I'm putting pictures up in chronological order so you can see the vast differences in landscapes inside Spain.

First stop. Granada. Last time I came here, it was stormy and windy and cold. This time proved to be much better and I ended up liking it a lot. We got to our hotel and didn't have time to do much else. So we went to a restaurant the owner Pepe suggested to us. The next day, Wednesday, we went to see the Granada cathedral and have an Arab bath. It had different pools with different temperatures, a steam room, and then we got a message as well. Sweet!! Then we found our way up to the Alhambra to see the gardens since we had decided to see the Palace at night. Gardens=So much better in the summer than in winter. We ate some tapas at the bottom of the hill of the Alhambra and then went and found the bus back to our hotel. The Palace at night was amazing! It had such a different atmosphere at night, less tousity or something. We tried going to the lookout point on the other hill of the Alhambra, but our GPS was trying to lead us through these tiny sidestreets and is just wasn't working out, so we just bagged it.

We took off the next morning to head to Ronda, a city in the south of Spain that is a lot smaller than Granada or Valencia. We explored the city for a little while, toured the bull ring there, saw the amazing bridge it is known for where people got thrown off during the Spanish Civil War, and bought some little trinkets. We headed out to the country side to find out hotel for the night. It was a farm in the middle of nowhere that was SO beautiful. Huge room, pool, gardens, and a fancy dinner. The owner was extremely nice and told me that even though she lives so far away from Valencia, if I ever needed anything I could definitely write her a message and she would be glad to help.

Ronda Bull Ring

This is where the bulls would be let out to go into the ring.

Bridge in Ronda

Pretty pictures from the farm we stayed at in the country.

So beautiful. Soak it all in. That's what I did.

Sunflower fields and olive trees EVERYWHERE.

I'm trying to play catch up!

Monday.
Went to the beach. Dad and I went to swim and left Mom on the beach helpless when someone came to ask her to pay for the umbrella that we were sitting under. Sorry mom!! Mom and I went out to swim as well. It's so nice there are very small waves here, but when the "big" ones come in, that's when the fun begins! After getting all sandy and salty, we headed back to my house via tram. We went to Mercadona after so they could experience what I do when I go shopping for food. Mom loved the little cart/baskets you wheel behind you. Got some food for the trip starting on Tuesday, which we really didn't end up taking in the end. We waited for Ana to get done with her exam to take her to dinner with us. Josh came and met the parents and once he left for other dinner plans, we headed out. We decided to go get kebabs at the place I usually go to down on calle Caballeros. At least there is one decently priced restaurant in Valencia. I think both my parents and Ana really enjoyed meeting each other. Went home to catch some z's because we had to go pick up the rental car the next morning to head off on the next leg of our adventure!

I'm being terrible at this blogger thing, I know.

Don't even remember what day I ended off on my last post!

Let's see, toured my parents around Valencia until Tuesday morning where we picked up our rental car to start our adventure. That could be the end of my post.

But that's someone who doesn't care about any detail. I am all over detail. I like it too much.

It's almost been a week, bad news man, I'll get better I swear.

Saturday!
Seems like an eternity ago. Let's see. Took my parents to the Mercado Central, which they had a ball at. I always tend to get really stressed out because of the huge number of people that always seem to be there. We made sure to grab some shrimp for dad, a tomato for mom to try, and a meringue. Those are delish by the way. We then made our way to the jardines botanicos (Botanical gardens) since it wasn't going to be that hot that day. We passed the Torres de Quart as well on the way. I love that they have so many cats in the gardens!!! I miss my kitty, so it's nice to at least see a cat haha. I think Mom really enjoyed that. We went through the jardines de las hesperides (garden of the nymphs) and had some old crazy homeless lady yell at us because she thought we were taking pictures of her. We walked back on the Turia. It's so nice. I should have gone running on it more, but it was either me not wanting to wake up or it getting too hot for me to want to go out and run. Oh well I've walked on it a lot back home from school. We then went to relax at my apartment until dinner. I took them to my favorite little Spanish place. It has the best food. Seriously. It's called La Rentaora. It has awesome brie with violet jam and chorizo and jamon serrano and all the very authentic Spanish dishes. Even paté which we had. When we got back to the Plaza de la Virgen near my house, there was an orchestra setting up to perform...at 11:15 at night! haha That would never fly in Pocatello. So we stood behind them and watched them play the symbols. Pretty sweet. Then we had some fancy Italian style gelato at a place that just opened up by my street. and sat to look at the Torres de Serrano.

Sunday.
Went to the second hand market they always have on Sunday mornings behind the big Mestalla football stadium. Mom had a ball looking at all the little trinkets that they were selling, also all the junk. haha Some guy gave us handfuls of keys and such when we asked how much one key would be. It was great. My dad took a nap on the sidewalk. LOL some cop thought he was a homeless dude and honked at him. We ate at the same little cafe that I had eaten at the first full day I was in Valencia. We had paella and I realized the whole time I ever ordered paella here I kept thinking it was made with chicken, but it was really rabbit. hahaha I kept wondering what part of the chicken they were using because the bones were so little and everywhere. Duh Em. We went through the Jardines de Real and made our way over to the Fine Arts Museum. Always amazing to see the stuff inside there. Went and took a break at my house again. Went to my favorite Italian restaurant that night for dinner! Delicious. Seriously. Best food ever. Love it. Cous Cous pesto, lasagna, tiramisu...all so good. and so fancy!

Longest week of my life!

So as of 11:53 a.m. yesterday, I am done with exams and school here in Valencia!!! Relieved. So relieved. I guess I can't be TOO relieved until grades are published, but for now I'm going to rest easy. The exam I had yesterday though took me almost the full 3 hours to complete!! Lot's of writing and stuff. I am usually a fast test taker, but definitely not on this one, compared to the one I had on Tuesday that took me all but 3 minutes to complete, multiple choice. :)

Lots of studying.

Cleaned like a mother yesterday because my parents were arriving today! They were the last people to get out of the gate, I kept wondering if they had missed their flight here! It's so crazy seeing them here I wont lie. I'm so used to manning it alone ya know? But it's great to see family. You don't realize how important family is until you've been away for a while. It'll be great to see the rest of you when I get back!!

It's so insane. I have less than 2 weeks left in Valencia. My parents are hanging out with me here until Tuesday, and on Tuesday we go rent a rental car and take off on our epic tour of the majority of Spain! Starting in the south and driving up to the north and taking a peek at France as well. :) We get back after almost 2 weeks of traveling and my parents leave the next day to go home! Then I have one more week here, and then it's off to possibly France and then to Denmark! I'm pumped to see my cousin Martin! And hang out with Jonas there!

So today, we took the metro stop Colon to show my parents the center while heading to my apartment. They loved the architecture around. I like showing people around. It makes me pay more attention to things I usually just walk past since I'm so used to living here. We dropped off their stuff at my place and went to look at the big statues and shrines they had out for corpus christi and the Torres de Serranos. and ate gelato. Yum. Then we walked down on the Turia and saw all the pretty flowers in bloom. We walked down to the "Festival of the Nations" which has a whole bunch of shops and restaurants from all around the world; Brazil, Argentina, Peru, India, Morocco, France, Australia, Dominican Republic, etc. They had kangaroo kebabs at the Australian place, Guarana at the Brazilian place, and for the American food stand they were serving up some delicious chicken nuggets, and OBAMA RIBS. hahahahahahahaha whilst playing AC/DC. Ridiculous. Dirty deeds. Done Dirt Cheap. That's 'merica. I got curry. I love curry. Mom got a churrasco kind of hot dog thing at the Argentinian place, and Dad got a kebab from the Brasilian place. We walked around the shops. They were pretty awesome. And then found there was a little tea/shisha place in the back! So we went over there and sat on the small little chairs and drank Moroccan mint tea. The guy working there was so impressed that I knew the singer of the songs he was playing (Amr Diab) and was so excited that I knew some Arabic that he gave me a free little pastry hehe. It was awesome though, we payed 7 euros for 3 glasses of tea, and in the end, we got to KEEP our glasses!!! I was going to ask how much it would cost to buy them themselves, guess I didn't have to!

Walked back home and realized they had started the procession of taking all of the figures to Plaza de la Virgen so we went to the Plaza and watched them wheel in the other ones with bands playing and just enjoying the beautiful weather and such. Great day in Valencia. Great day. So happy my parents are here and I get to share my city with them. It's gonna be wonderful. Give me a reason to go see all the touristy places I haven't seen yet as well!

Well, I'm off to sleep for a bit. I think we are getting up early to see the sights!

"It is said with every language you speak, you gain a new soul."

infestation.

We have killed 3 Cockroaches in our apartment in the past week or so!!!!!

I hate them.

I would so much rather deal with spiders. At least spiders are little things where these buggers are freaking huge!!

This morning I woke up and Ana had left a note on the door to our living room and bathroom and such that was closed. It's never closed. But it read. There's a cockroach in the bathroom. I couldn't kill it! I had no desire to open the doors. But I really had to pee so I opened the first door, nothing. Opened the bathroom door........................................nothing. I was like what?! Did she imagine it? So I went about my day as normal.

When both of my flatmate's got home tonight, we went out to eat tapas and talk. It was at a nice little place that was very Spanish and authentic. Great food. Kinda expensive though, so I didn't get much. Fried brie with blueberry jelly, squid, some bocadillo kind of things, patatas bravas, etc.

So, we get home and had closed the door. Then we opened it to find the COCKROACH. chilling in the corner of our living room. Ana and I refused to kill it, it's just too gross, and Natalia was like fine I will kill it, give me a minute to get out of the bathroom! So Ana and I hid in the hallway while Natalia used the leg of a chair to kill it since she didn't want to use her shoes. Hahahaha we are so terrified of them! They are so scary!

Totally a bonding moment for the three of us hahahahaha.

Back to studying!! I have an exam tomorrow! Wish me luck!

remnants of Morocco

So if you look down at my hand, there is still the faint outlining of my henna I got in Morocco. I love it. I must have been SO much whiter before I got my henna. It's pretty faint though, I don't know if I could capture it in a photo. It's awesome though.

I went to dinner with some friends to an Italian place. It was my friend Juan's last Friday in Valencia, he is leaving tomorrow! So we had some pizza and pasta to hang out with him, and we then went to this discoteca that is outside in the botanical garden thing by the big modern museums and buildings "la ciudad de las artes y ciencias". It was pretty chill.

Today I went to the beach. I love swimming. I never want to get out of the water. ever. It's the perfect temperature too. You don't ever get cold. Though a storm was coming so we had to ditch early. Me Josh and Jonas I mean.

We worked on our Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions as well. Jonas wins. He is obsessed.

Went grocery shopping in the nasty wind and stormy looking ness. Our gas stove is out of gas, so I've been trying to buy groceries that don't involve cooking.

Very unmotivated at the moment to study. I don't want to. But I just have to keep thinking that by this time next week, I'll be finished with school finally. Hopefully. Cross your fingers. I have 2 classes passed, 2 to go.

Here have a picture! I haven't put any of those up lately.

My henna before

Ah. I love when this happens. The towers make my city look so magical. :)