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Published: June 23rd 2009
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Don Quixote statue Well we haven´t posted a blog for Sunday because we were traveling all day monday and had issues with transferring pictures so here out Sundayś events a little late. We walked down to a very large statue of Don Quixote which was very pretty and powerful, got some pictures of that. After that me and andrea were too tired to walk back so we took the bus while Morgan and Dad walked back, ha ha. Andrea and I went shopping while Morgan rested and ...I not really sure what Dad did, he walked around or something... Then the main event of the day...the bullfight. Now, Dad was really excited for this traditional Spanish event while I....to say the least, was hesitant... Itś not that I get queezy easily (with blood) itś that it seemed so cruel and sad for the animal. We went traveled via subway to the stadium which was beautiful and entirely made of brick. We went inside and waited for it to start. Our seats were relativley close but in the sun, which was not too bad. They paraded out in the beginging witch horses and trumpets and shortely after the bull trotted out and started to charge
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Outside the stadium at the "warm-up" matadors. Then the piccador (which was a man on a horse) would stab the bull with a lance. Then other matadors took things that looked like long bouys with hooks and stabbed the bull in the back, all while making it run around. Then the main matador would come out after the bull was worn down alot and he would do the whole red flag/cape-thing performance which was actually quite beatiful and gracefull to watch. It was shocking to see how close the matador would come to the bull while taunting it with the red cape, at times they would get swipes of bull blood on the sides of the uniforms. After getting the bull to charge around him a few times he would walk away from the bull slowely with his chin up and chest out to show that he was not afraid of the giant beast standing right behind him. It was very hard for me to watch at first, it was very sad how confused the bull looked while fighting for his life. After a while I just had to act like I wasn there and ended up enjoying it for the most part.
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Ham ruffles??? I thought they were nasty but Andi liked them There was a spanish man sitting next to dad telling him his opinion on the matadorś performance. He mostly thought it was "todo malo" or all bad (every one is a critic). There was also a south african man sitting in front of us who spoke English who also agreed that he was not sure aout this event but just wanted to try it out.b The best part of this experience was the old spanish men who must have come there every sunday. They would be smoking cigars, standing up and yelling "this matador is a chicken!" in spanish of course, and also saying something about his mother...They would boo and whistle at the matador in some instances, then clap at others (mostly booing though). It was hard to tell why they liked something or why they didńt. After a while the old wife of one of the men kept telling him "no more" and "shut up". Over-all it was a learning experience about a very very old spanish tradition. While it broke my heart it was still very intruiging and beautiful.
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