DAY 3 - SUNDAY
here is another LONG post! i guess i am over the fact that every post i do about spain is going to be LONG and not shorter like i had hoped. good thing i am posting this trip in seperate posts! like i said before ... i have way too many pictures (from each day alone) that it is quite overwhelming ... and this isn't even ALL of them.
Sunday was a great day. we found the church in the town we were staying in ... after driving all around trying to find it and stopping to ask someone if they knew where it was, we finally made it! but it was worth it. i love how you still feel the spirit in a ward or branch when they speak a different language and you have no idea what they are really saying. their tears still bring tears to your eyes. we wish we would have been there for another sunday to go back.
after church we went home to change quickly and then headed off to a town called Granada to see the most visited tourist attraction in spain ... the Alhambra ...
on our way to the car from church, i thought this would little gate would make for a cute photo, but ...
he was a little tired!
these next few pics are from our drive to granada
love palm trees ... wasn't really expecting these in spain?
mediterranean sea
a little white village
AND here is ALHAMBRA!
just a little history for our memory.
The history of the Alhambra is linked with the geographical place where it is located: Granada. On a rocky hill that is difficult to access, on the banks of the River Darro, protected by mountains and surrounded by woods, among the oldest quarters in the city, the Alhambra rises up like an imposing castle with reddish tones in its ramparts that prevent the outside world from seeing the delicate beauty they enclose.
Originally designed as a military area, the Alhambra became the residence of royalty and of the court of Granada in the middle of the thirteenth century, after the establishment of the Nasrid kingdom and the construction of the first palace, by the founder king Mohammed ibn Yusuf ben Nasr, better known as Alhamar.
Throughout the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the fortress became a citadel with high ramparts and defensive towers, which house two main areas: the military area, or Alcazaba, the barracks of the royal guard, and the medina or court city, the location of the famous Nasrid Palaces and the remains of the houses of noblemen and plebeians who lived there. The Charles V Palace (which was built after the city was taken by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492) is also in the medina.
Originally designed as a military area, the Alhambra became the residence of royalty and of the court of Granada in the middle of the thirteenth century, after the establishment of the Nasrid kingdom and the construction of the first palace, by the founder king Mohammed ibn Yusuf ben Nasr, better known as Alhamar.
Throughout the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the fortress became a citadel with high ramparts and defensive towers, which house two main areas: the military area, or Alcazaba, the barracks of the royal guard, and the medina or court city, the location of the famous Nasrid Palaces and the remains of the houses of noblemen and plebeians who lived there. The Charles V Palace (which was built after the city was taken by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492) is also in the medina.
i stole this picture off wikipedia.com (AND the history of alhambra too)
there is no way i could capture this on my camera!
walking up to alhambra
waiting to enter ...
grandpa dipping east into holy water
trev.jac.cody
ad & josh
"short-ays"
east checking out the view with g-ma and g-pa
the view!
so many of the grounds look like this around spain. SO cool. i LOVED them!
this was randomly carved into the wall ... just for UNC "T"
it was SO HOT the entire time we were in spain. east drank LOTS of water.
sweet little bookstore where we fould lots of goodies just outside the gates of alhambra
water again!
on our way home from granada, we were all STARVING so we got off some random exit to look for a resturaunt. we found one with lots of cars in the parking lot. we thought okay ... this has got to be a good place to eat. when we walked in there was nobody there, but we decided to sit down and eat anyway. josh ordered calamari ... when they brought it out, it was definitely not your normal calamari! a big blob of blubber and part of the squid on the side of the plate ... GROSS!
jac and mom ordered salmon. it doesn't look so bad in the picture, but you can tell by jac's face that it was't her favorite. the rest of us liked bits and peices of our meals but it definately was NOT satisfying.
there was a little play place out front of the restuarant with these slides that easton loved to go down.
when we left the restuarant the parking lot was EMPTY! come to find out ... all the cars that were there earlier were for the pool around the side of the restuarant. they were all swimming! ha! good choice!
here is a picture of our cute VAN i promised you!
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