This Weekend in Granada

So good news, I have finally booked my last trips. I booked London for the weekend after Thanksgiving, November 28th – December 1st. This works out great since I will have a final on Thanksgiving, dinner with my group that night and then leave the next day and then no class the following Monday. The tickets were pretty cheap for flying out of Granada and for buying them only two weeks ahead of time. The return flight was actually free so I just had to pay the tax. As of right now I am going on my own but I have some friends studying there that I want to visit and Teahen’s brother, Robbie lives in London, so Hopefully we can meet up as well. I also booked Rome for the following weekend, December 4th – December 8th. I am going with Kendall, Megan, Liz and Evan. I’m happy that I actually got these booked because I had been asking people for weeks about going to these places and I was worried that I would not get them in. They are my top two cities I wanted to visit in Europe.

I was going to go to Barcelona this weekend but I waited too long to buy tickets and they doubled over night for when I wanted to buy them. So since that fell through, I am staying in Granada this weekend. I have a pretty good weekend planned so far since it is one of my last weekends in Granada. Kyle found an indoor go-carting place so there is a possibility of doing that as well this weekend, and maybe go bowling as well since it close to the go-carting place. This week for my Granada Seminar class we learned about tapas, so now I have a long list of places that I need to check out before I leave. So for those of you who have not been to Granada or not heard about the tapas here. When we go out and buy a drink, usually a beer because it’s cheaper than pop or bottled water you get tapas with your drink… FOR FREE!!! Depending on the place you can get a wide variety of food. Pete and I found this place called the EuroBar and it is always packed, hence the name, everything’s a Euro and the first tapa is a ham and cheese panini, then hamburger, then a slice of pizza, and the list goes on. So with every drink, you get a new kind of food. We also found a sushi tapas bar and one of my classmates works there so we get extra sushi from time to time.

Also on Sunday, a group of seven of us are going four wheeling in the Sierra Nevada’s. We were going to go two weeks ago but when I set it up through the school they did not tell us that we have to pay ahead of time, so the company was not there to pick us up. I am looking forward to this because how many people can say that they went on a four wheeling excursion in the Sierra Nevada’s? Also the weather has for this weekend is going to be much better from two weeks ago, temperatures in the 40’s and rainy. As of late, the weather has been perfect here and will be through the weekend. It’s been sunny and in the mid to upper 60’s. And to top off this amazing weekend, I am skipping class on Tuesday to go snowboarding with Pete and who else is willing to miss 1 day of class.

So far it’s been a good weekend. We went to a discotec of Thursday night. I went to a movie on Friday night, “Un Novia Para Dos” or in English it is – My Best Friends Girl – with Dane Cook, Jason Biggs and Kate Hudson. It was a pretty good movie but since I already know their voices in English, it was really weird with the voiceovers. I think I will have to see it in the states to completely understand what happens. I went to the open market today near the sports stadiums and bought some gifts and then had lunch and took a siesta. Pete and I walked around and went to look at snowboarding stuff, since we might need gloves. The cheapest pair of gloves I found was 35€ and they weren’t that nice. The stores are ridiculously over priced, almost like the stores at the resorts. But anyway that’s the update so far for the weekend.