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??!