Day 5-A picture of somewhere you've been to

Don't worry... i'm blogging at work... why you might ask? well, because i am planned and copied for the next week since i was at work until 6:30 last night. tonight i will be here until 7:00, so i have lots of time. i'm hoping to get planned and copied through Christmas so that i can focus on planning my lessons for my long term sub during maternity leave. oh, and i have to make a curriculum binder as well outlining what the students in each grade should know their first year of Spanish... um, remember how i make it up like every day? we'll see how that turns out...

anyways, a picture of somewhere i have been... wow. i haven't been a lot of places, but i have been to a few very cool places... haiti, puerto rico, st. thomas, bahamas, mexico, spain, portugal, italy, and quite a few places in the country. i haven't been to south america or canada yet, but i have a friend in canada who i would LOVE to go visit. :) hopefully that can be planned soon.

so the place i chose was.... drumroll please... SPAIN!

i mainly chose spain because not only am i now obsessed with the country and want to go back, but that is where julie and i became besties. we knew we wanted to be roommates about two minutes into our first intro class because we were the only two girls in our group that spoke fluent spanish, were over the age of 19, and returned missionaries. it was love at first sight. :) we got close with a few others, but not to the point that jules and i are. we might have taken pictures in just about anything that resembled a tub and was roped off... we also might have discovered that i have an aversion to all things public transportation... not only because of the crazies, but because i will fall down basically aboard anything that moves... think busses and trains... we're cool... love her...

here i am outside the prado (the famous art museum in madrid). madrid is gorgeous. there is this park smack in the middle of the city... think central park but more beautiful and peaceful.

and here is my favorite place in all of spain... la alhambra in granada. granada was the last muslim stronghold to fall to isabella and ferdinand in 1492 in the reconquista. it is massive and peaceful, and we might have gotten "lost" from our group just so we could take a few extra minutes and watch the sunset from a bench at the top on the palace. i couldn't bring myself to leave. it was gorgeous, it smelled of roses, and all we could hear were the birds and running water. i can't wait to go back someday!