i'm pointed home, we've still got time. raise your hopeful voice...

sorry for a bit of a hiatus there. so after madrid with the family, we took a look around spain together. we went back to salamanca and i finally explored ávila for a little tiny bit. we had a lot of fun doing that. we ended up in ávila due to a bit of bad directing on my part on the highway, but i did not have a map, so the fact that we got there without major problems is pretty impressive i think.


one of the longer days in my life was spent again in granada. it is a beautiful city that everyone should see, but driving eight hours in a day to see the city and staying until 12a is hard. we went to the alhambra, walked the city a bit, ate kebap and saw some flamenco. so it was good, but we did not get back to madrid until 4am. so that was rough.


but here is a bit of "what went down"

these tree trunks, these stream beds, leave our bellies full, they sing out "i am gonna stand my ground."..

So my family came out for christmas in madrid. and on christmas day we went out to retiro park to see some of the great things in spain. and we saw lots of cool giant balloons and pretty sweet roller skating. i am sad i missed my girlfriends brother chasing after the roller skater on my camera..

she can't relax, with his hand on the small of her back

so i went to segovia. that was really fun. it is one of my favorite places in spain, due to all the amazing history. the aqueducts are incredible and basically everything in the city is so beautiful. i would love to go back at some point. i went with allie and my friend emily parker. i think we all had a lot of fun. it was a nice weekend.

so here is what we did...