That was SO worth it.

Happy Sunday!

Today we woke up at 8:30am and met downstairs at 9am. We all took advantage of our free breakfast and ate cereal, toast, and drank some orange juice. As soon as we finished breakfast, we left the hostel and walked to the bus stop, where we took the bus to the bus station haha. Once we got there, we got in line to buy our tickets for the rest of our weekend trip. We couldn't believe how expensive the bus tickets were... but we had to do what we had to do. At least the program is covering 25 euros. Anyway, we ended up catching the 12pm bus to Cordoba, which was a two and a half hour ride. I dosed off here and there. Before I knew it, we were there!

We traveled in a pretty large group today: Lu, Edgar, Melissa, Leslie, Ceci, Jinah, Albert, Sherry, and I. A few others were with us as well but we split up somewhere along our journey though Cordoba today. Our first mission of the day was to see La Mezquita, a most famous mosque in Cordoba. Before arriving at the entrance, we walked in and out through really cute alley ways and streets, and yes, we took advantage of every photo OP available to us. The admission to go inside the Mosque was 8 euros, but it was SO worth it, dude.

The interior of La Mezquita was absolutely amazing... hmmm I should really try to come up with some better adjectives! It had a huge floor plan and I have never seen so many arches in one place! We ran into Alex for a bit and he informed us that all of the arches are supposed to reflect some sort of paradise, like palm trees below the clouds. The red and white stripes on the arches matched what Melissa and I were wearing so we were really excited about taking pictures together. Ahhh "Aye, pues..." haha it was so great.

Afterwards, our group walked around on the nearby bridge that went over the river. We watched as a father was watching his little son feed pieces of bread to local ducks which had flown into the water. If the ducks didn't catch the bread in time, it continued to float down the river until we saw a bunch of ENORMOUS fish come up and snatch the bread under water. It was so cool to watch! We threw in some more crackers just to watch these fish swim up to the surface. Of course, we took tons of pictures... haha soon after, we fled to the shaded streets and ate at Burger King for lunch haha! I know, I know. What tourist eats Burger King in Spain?! ... College kids do, apparently. We saved a few extra bucks by doing so! Although, I know I could have eaten at least two more of those happy meal burgers. Sometimes, Happy Meals just have to do.

We also found this famous little street called "Calleja de las Flores," which is a narrow alley way with beautiful potted plants all over each of the walls. It was LOVELY.

We ended our evening in Cordoba by going back to the bridge we went to earlier, once the sun went down, and raced our Burger King Happy Meal toys haha. I'm so serious. We even had an audience haha. We eventually made it back to the bus station and took a nine to ten hour bus ride to Guardamar which left at 12:20am. We just slept. Or... tried to at least. I think I was much more comfortable sleeping on the ground in the airport than I was sitting upright on the super long bus ride back haha. Oh well. More stories to tell.