ESPANA- Cadiz and Seville

We got into port on Wed. and were able to get off the ship about 9:30. I went with some people to walk around the city and explore a little before my city orientation. We walked around for 2 hours and then I saw some other girls headed back to the ship to got to the tour. We got a little lost on the way back but when we finally saw the ship it was such a relief that we weren't going to miss our tour. We had lunch and then has a tour of Cadiz. It was a good tour and we got to go into 2 musems and see tons of ancient history that we have been learning about in Global Studies. We went into a huge Cathedral in the city. It was beautiful and took 150 years to build. We took a break for ice cream and then finished the tour. I went back to the ship to have dinner and then got to go to Flamenco night! We say a bull fight without the blood and then a show by the Flamenco dancers. It was so much fun! The next days we had plans to go to another city but it didn't work out so we walked around the city and got to do some errands. We then went to the beach and enjoyed the beautiful water and sun. We had dinner that night in a Spanish cafe and it was good! My favorite thing has been there orange juice and expresso with hot milk in it. It is so good. I have loved walking around and enjoying all the beauty of the Spainish buildings.

Friday we took the bus to Seville and took a tour of the city. The 3rd largest Cathedral in the world is there so we went in and it only cost us 2 euros becuase we were students!! It was absolutly amazing!! We climbed 35 flights of stairs to the top of the tower to see and amazing view of the city. After we walked around and had lunch at a cafe. We ordered our first course and then while waiting on the second the manager walked over and asked us if we were students studying in the city. We said yes and he asked us if we knew what the second course was that we ordered. We said we didn't... He then said that he was going to save us because we had ordered the lining of some animals stomach. He then told us the other two choices we could have and we picked one of those! We explored more of the city and headed back to Cadiz.

Today I am going to finish seeing Cadiz and hopefully do a little shopping before getting back on the ship and leaving for Italy tonight!!

I feel that I have already learned a lot and think there is a lot more that I am going to learn at the next port!