Kelli and I on the bus as we are leaving Spain. We look ready to sleep a little right? Yeah right.
When we first got there it was way too early to check into our hostel, but we dumped our bags off their and then hit the city while running on 1 hour of sleep. This is the wall that used to surround Sevilla. 
Here are Katie, Kelli and I in front of the wall. Can you tell we are a little slap happy? lol, I love these girls!
Katie showing off her excelent model poses in front of the weall
Kelli was so tired she decided to take a nap on the sidewalk
A beautiful building we found as we wandered through Sevilla
We eventually stumbled into a park and there was a pretty river with cool bridges on it. Tyler told me it was part of a beautification project for all of Spain. Here are Katie and Kelli in front of one of the bridges. It was funny because we ran into a bunch of fishermen on this river and they all had super long fishing poles that are meant for catching large fish in deep waters. We decided that there must be only one fishing pole manufacturere in Sevilla so they all have the same goofy poles.
My all time favorite picture of Nik as he stretches in front of another bridge
Fortunately by about 10 we found this ledge and we decided it would make an excellent bed for us until we checked into the hostel in another 2 hours.
We took a 3 hour nap once we checked in and were ready to see Sevilla again. We found that there are lots of carriages for tours of the city.
The group minus Kelli in a Plaza that we found
This is an old hospital that has no been turned into the parliment building for Andalusia (Sevilla is the capitol of the southern region of Spain).
We finally got to this beautiful piece of architecture. This is La Giralda, a famous cathedral of the city and my favorite part of Sevilla. The view from the top is breathe taking!
This is what the statue at the top of the building looks like.
Once you climb 39 stories (there are no stairs though, just ramps-this was so that the king and royalty could climb the tower using horses and not have to climb it themselves. pretty cool huh?)
A part of the cathedral.
A view from the top of La Giralda-this is the Plaza de los toros or bulls stadium.
Another view from the top-the two spires on the left are the Plaza de Espana which is absolutely gorgeous.
Nik, Tyler, Katie and I at the top of La Giralda
Looking down at the courtyard in the center of the cathedral. 
Katie, Kelli, Nik, and Tyler resting after the long trek up and down the tower
Another beautiful building in Sevilla-I love this city
After La Giralda, we went to the royal palace. It had islamic influences in the building and it was sooo beautiful.
Look at the details on the wall!
There were these gorgeous purple flowers all over the place and they covered the walls in this courtyard
Kelli and I in front of the pretty purple flowers
The outside gardens though were the best part. I have never seen anything so beautiful in my life.
They had these cool flowers that were yellow in the center and then slowly turned to orange on the outside. It was like a rainbow flower.
There were even peacocks in the garden!
It was a maze of flowers and greenery. I loved it!
This was an awesome fountain that looked like a moss covered hill.
Next we went to Plaza de Espana. For all of you Star Wars fans out there, in the second movie, a scene of the princess in Nabou (sp?) was shot in this plaza.
It is so gorgeous here!
Katie showing off her ballerina skills in the Plaza
We found a plaque that represented Madrid, so it was only natural to take a picture of the group in front of it.
The girls in front of the fountain in the center of the plaza. Yay Sevilla!
Katie and Nik trying to show their sexy faces and failing miserably at it.
We soon returned to the hostel and got ready to go out for the night. Before we went though, Nik decided to give himself a haircut. But we only had one bathroom and 5 people who had to get ready. It made for an interesting experience. The best part was how proud Nik was though of cutting his own hair. He is now known as the barber of Sevilla.
We found out that there was a festival for the patron saint of spain and there was actually a bond fire in the park. We are pretty sure we won't see another bon fire for the rest of the summer here so it was a nice reminder of home.
Whenever we go out Katie and Nik are always a riot together and we have the best time. This picture pretty much sums up everything.Overall we had an amazing time and the next day we were on to Cordoba to see the famous Mosque.
3 comments:
Ok so I saw the pic captioned "Katie, Kelli, Nik, and Tyler resting after the long trek up and down the tower" and the biggest smile crept over my face and I burst out laughing. You may be wondering why...think back to one of our travel companions...one that went by the nickname of "Safari Steve" LOL. That is SO the fountain that he was sitting on when I tried to take a secretive picture of him for our memories. And then I remembered throwing a stick of gum down onto what we thought was his patio when we were in Torremolinos. Any recollection on why we did that ?!? :)
-Linds
P.S. If I recall correctly he was fluent in Swahili and was an avid organ player.
How much sleep you got before hitting the town running sounds strangely familiar... kind of like a trip to a certain capital city after freshman year. I am starting to think that I need to jump on a plane and come see you! Did you do anything American for the 4th?
Are you still planning on coming home in August or are you going to become a permanent resident of Spain?
Haha, Linds, I definitely remember Safari Steve. WE threw the stick of gum down because we needed a weight to throw down the love note, along with the bandaid for all of the blisters that he got!
Wow, recuerdos, recuerdos, recuerdos. Todavia tengo celos. . .mas ahora, porque Sevilla es tan linda! De todos modos. . .hace tres dias que empece a ensenar. . .es muy dificil aqui, y los alumnos tienen muchisimas problemas con drogos, dinero, sex, etc. etc. Ojala que tus ninos de 7 anos tengan una vida mejor!
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