Yemas!

Hello All,

Goods news, the cold is almost gone. Turns out that stuff I bought made me sleepy and crabby, but when I just took it at night, it was fine.

 

I decided to switch up the routine a little this weekend. Most of my class decided to go to Madrid this weekend, but since I'm going to Paris soon, I decided to save a little money. Friday I did the tapas thing and tried a few new things.

We ordered Tigres which essentially is a mussel

 shell filled with cheese, crab, lobster, and other bits of seafood, then breaded and fried. Each shell is 1.20 Euro, about 2 dollars, which is a lot for such a tiny thing, but, ooh, it was soo good.

Next I got some sopa al ajillo which was way good. You sip it from a tiny bowl. Then Katie got this tapa called something like jamón con queso y aciete which was awesome. 

Then we went to another bar and got Caracoles (snails). I was all about them at first, but then when I got a closer look, I had trouble eating them. Plus, they were really salty!! (Sorry all the pictures are together, i don't know how to put them within the text..)

On Saturday, Katie, Shelby, Mike and I (Mike and Shelby are dating, they are both teachers) decided to do a day trip to Ávila, a small town about a half hour drive that is one of the oldest walled in cities. It was cold, but sunny, and absolutely beautiful! Unfortunately I can't put all the pictures in the blog, but if you want to see more look on face book. Here are a few. 

If you pay 4 euros (we did) they let you walk on the stone wall surrounding the city. Above there is a picture of me walking on the wall. From the wall you can see the whole city and the churches. It was pretty fantastic. 

They are famous there apparently for Yemas, a small round squishy dessert made of egg yolk and sugar. I was not a fan, but I took a picture of them which I will put on facebook. 

It's been a fun weekend. Now I gotta do a little homework (I know, how awful) and start getting ready for Paris!  I REALLY wish my host mom would do my laundry. I asked her earlier this week and she said "Oh, I do it every weekend!" Well, she didn't last weekend. And now it's Sunday of the next week and I'm just about out of clothes!! Sigh. I'll keep trying. 

'til next time!