Life in Granada has also been great! Thursday one of my classes got cancelled so I was able to sleep in and have a super relaxing morning before heading to my one class at 11:30. After class Anne and I went for a run, and while it was crazy hot, it felt really good to get moving (every Monday and Wednesday I do a pilates class, but I usually don’t work out on Tuesday/Thursday). We were rewarded with a new lunch dish–pasta with seafood and tomato sauce–and after hanging out at home for a bit we went shopping! I got some fun new summer clothes and used up a few of the crisp new bills I had just gotten out of the ATM. We pulled ourselves away from the shops to head up to the Mirador de San Nicolas to watch the sunset. Although the sun doesn’t set behind the Alhambra, it does turn the Sierra Nevada mountains a really beautiful pink and light the sky up in an awesome twilight shade of blue.
That day put me in a really good mood. I had been thinking about spring for so long and we finally got to see it yesterday. Flowers have started blooming, the weather is great and the sky is blue.
On Friday we decided that the time had come to go to the beach. We went to a beach about an hour and half away, by bus, in a city called Almuñecar. The drive was awesome and when we arrived the weather was looking good. We had to stop in the bus station for a minute to get our return tickets and while waiting in line these two old women started chatting us up. They told us they were from Granada and gave us all the insider tips on tapas bars. It was a great way to start out day!
On top of our hill/cliff
Once we got to the beach we set up camp and napped for about 4 hours. While it wasn’t the hottest day, it was still super relaxing and it felt amazing to be by an ocean again. This time, though, I was looking out over the Mediterranean! There is something so universal about the beach that I love; although I was on a different continent over looking a different body of water it felt really familiar. Anne and I opted to take the 8 o’clock bus home, so around 6 we climbed up this big cliff/hill to watch the sunset. It was really the perfect way to watch the sunset.
As I wrote in my journal “Two pretty perfect days in a row. Not bad.”
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