Today I woke up about 10 minutes before I needed to leave the house. No bueno. I was about 20 minutes late meeting my friends, but everything was good. We decided to go to Castle Bellver today since the weather was supposed to be nice. It took us a few tried to find the right bus to get on, but we finally found it after about 45 minutes and got on it. We rode about 20 minutes west of the city to a smaller town. We had to walk up tons of stairs, but the view was quite spectacular so it was okay. The castle was so cool. I had never been to a castle before, except for Cinderella's in Disney World. I hope I get to go to some more castles during my travels this semester. It is one of the only circular castles in the world. All of the rooms were closed due to it being Sunday, but we got to walk around for free. The views are absolutely spectacular. You can see all of Palma from the top. The weather on top of the castle was absolutely wonderful. It was sunny, slightly windy, and in the low 60's.. perfection. I could live up there. We spent an hour or two looking around and taking pictures then headed home for lunch.
It is so nice being able to walk in the door and have lunch prepared. I literally walked in just as Carme had finished cooking. She had 2 friends over today also. She made some hand-breaded chicken, artichokes, and cauliflower with salad and bread, of course. Her friends also brought over a giant dessert tray. Of course they asked me which one I wanted first, and I was a bit overwhelmed with the approximately 10 varieties of cakes and pastries so it took me a minute to decide. I picked a puff pastry filled with a meringue cream.. yum. They also ask me how to say things like strawberry and garlic in English, because those words are hard for them to pronounce.
I am currently uploading all the pictures I took to my Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynne222 so make sure to check those out! I took about 300 today, so it is going to take a while for them to all upload and also for you to look through them all. I couldn't stop taking photos because it was so beautiful. I also have uploaded about 1/4 of my photos on FB if you don't want to look through hundreds of them and just want to see the highlights.
I have a lot of homework to do tonight, and I think we might go out for a bit later before dinner (if anything is even open at that time). Mostly, I will be doing homework and reminding myself that my feet are still on the ground and that my life is real, because at times, it doesn't feel like it.
Nos vemos!
-Lynne
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