chit chat

I can't believe we've been here a week already!

After a few days in Seville, we headed to the country home that we are renting for 16 days. It's near the town of Arriate and Ronda (which has a huge gorge that's breathtaking). It's been nice having a house to stay in, as opposed to a hotel room. The biggest bonus has been the ability to cook our own meals. We really can't seem to get used to the siesta thing here. Shops are open from 10-2, then close until 5, then open until 8. Which means that breakfast is at 10, lunch is at 2 and dinner at 8. Seeing as how we have a little one, dinner at 8 doesn't quite work for us.

This morning I headed to Ronda by myself to take pictures and roam around. It was adventure driving there and finding parking. Once I got lost, squeezed between a bunch of cars and almost gave up, I found a surface lot that I could manage to park our rental car without rolling it backwards of a steep entryway. There were a lot of tourists and I found them to be great props for my picture taking :).

On the way back to the car, I stopped at the overlook and met a Spanaird who I managed to have a conversation using my high school Spanish (which by the way, is getting much better!). At the end of our parting ways, we did the cheek kiss thing and then WHAM! I got a big smacker on the lips. I was totally not expecting it and I had to laugh the whole way to the car. I am just going to chalk it up to cultural differences...

I was going to pack light for this trip, but instead packed three film cameras and one digital camera. Since I have not developed any of the film yet (and won't until we get back to the States), I am going to only post my digital images that I kinda played with in iPhoto. It's not Photoshop, but it's all I have here.

Note to Self: Do not join any tour group with matching hats...

Two more weeks in Arriate and then off to Granda for Holy Week...