http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/saracym/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from saracym en-us Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:25:58 UTC Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:25:58 UTC Oh my goshhellipthis was my last full weekend here in Spain It just hit me. Time certainly is flying. Irsquoll be home this Saturday night Wellhellippray for my flight for me. And tell all those grandparents around you that are religious to pray for me too. Irsquoll need all the help I can get againThis past week went by sssooo slooow. I think it must have been because I know that t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Segovia/blog-305497.html This felt like the longest week ever I guess my professors realized wersquore almost through here and assigned us way too much homework. So during the week I didnrsquot do much other than working on papers and relaxing. This weekend though I had fun.Friday we had an excursion to el Escorial and Valle de los Cados. First el Escorial. This is the biggest building in Spain. It was made in h http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Segovia/blog-302672.html What a long week. We had classes 5 days this week rather than the normal 4 to make up for a festival day we had off during our first week here. After classes Friday we went on a little field trip just in town to learn more about Segovia. First we went to the cathedral. Itrsquos right in the plaza mayor. Irsquom sure Irsquove posted pictures of the plaza with the cathedral in it. It was th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Salamanca/blog-299505.html Well I'm not in Barcelona anymore but I was there a few hours ago I had quite the weekend. We left on the midnight bus to Barcelona and arrived around 7am after some taxi and bus changes. It felt like a 5 minute bus ride to me because I feel right asleep. People are starting to notice that I fall asleep very quickly here. I guess now I know that I've got that Cetnor gene too We checked our bag http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-296598.html Hello from across the pond as Jeffrey would say Nothing super exciting has been happening in the past few days just class and hanging around town. For those of you who don't have facebook aunts and uncles I just realized you guys haven't seen pictures of my house. I have a very large house. You walk in through the basement. Up one flight of stairs is the main floor with the kitchen and bedr http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Segovia/blog-294783.html This past Friday was our first excursion of the trip. We went to a winery and 2 castles. Lets talk about the winery first. It was the more boring place Ive been too. First of all it was 11 in the morning and second of all she did not have many grape plants. I was expecting Napa Valley or something but it was a let down. Then after an hour of explaining how to make wine basically cool it and k http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Segovia/blog-293124.html Monday night was supposed to be the start of la fiesta de San Juan with bands and fireworks but it started to POUR I can not explain to you how crazy town was. Everyone was scattering and running as if they'd die. It was definatly an experience. I ran 15 minutes home in the pouring rain. Everything I was wearing was soaked hoodie tshirt bra capri's underwear purse. I had to wring my clot http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Segovia/blog-291516.html Hola from SpainI made it to Spain early Friday morning. It was quite a flightdefinatly not an easy one. Our flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was about 8 hours with the worst landing Ive ever had. It was just a straight shot down. I really thought I was going to throw up. We literally ran through Schiphol in Amsterdam and made it just in time for our Amsterdam to Madrid. We got all of our luggag http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Castile---Leon/Segovia/blog-290741.html