The night I snuck out of a park

On Monday evening Anne and I went to this really cool park in Granada that we had heard about but never been to. Our friends call it the peacock park because there are peacock wandering around the whole thing (it's really called Carmen de los Mártires). Anyway, they said that it’s the best park except for that they lock they gates at night.  When we got there Anne checked the schedule and said that it closed at 10pm, so we thought that would be plenty of time to watch the sunset. We hung out in the park until the sunset around 9ish and headed back to the front gates...only to discover that they were locked!!! 

 

The Alhambra from a different angle

Hi mom!

Vale la pena

We started to get a little nervous because the gates were super tall and we didn't know how else to get out. When we were walking around we were saying how it was super strange that they would lock the gates earlier than the schedule said and mid-sentence, Anne was like "oh wait...20.00h means 8 o'clock, not 10 o'clock." Woops.

 

After exhausting all other options, we accepted the fact that the only way to get out of the park was to climb the gates, so with a lot of boosts and encouragement we helped each other up and over.  I’m not afraid of heights, but those gates were tall! It was pretty ridiculous!!

 

That's the gate we climbed over!

Other happenings:

Last week our program put together a degustación (food tasting) at a local shop called La Oliva.  Since our group is pretty big and the shop is pretty small, we got split up into different days and my day was Thursday. 

Basically we got to sample all sorts of Andalucian food (olive oil, olives, sausage, jamón, a red pepper spread, and some other deliciousness), wine and a few yummy (but rich) desserts.  It was a really great way to make you feel Spanish!

Time has just been generally flying by! I can’t believe that my program is over in less than one month.  That makes me so glad that I have the opportunity to stay longer and travel.  I know that I wouldn’t be ready to be done with my European adventure by May 22!

Next up: Morocco!