Meeting Ma & Pa

Journey to Salamanca

Started out the day like the past few ... breakfast and meet with the group. This time was a bit different because we were all packed up!

API broke our trip a bit by stopping at the Escorial. In this town is the monastery "El Escorial" which covers 7 acres of land. It is still in use today. The cool thing there is the tombs of many of the Spanish Royal family. We walked downstairs in this overglorified room full of caskets with gold plates embellishing their names. The rulers were on one side and their spouse on the other. In this picture there are some of the kings in the Bible. Very pretty.

We got back on the bus and headed to Salamanca. I think it was a 2 hour bus ride... but I slept most of it! Go me! Once we were there, we saw our moms huddled with our director Maria. My mom is in the red pants.

Once we met our mothers and gave air-cheek kisses like all the good spainiards do... we headed for her house. I tried to talk as much as my sleepy mind would let me. I think I ended up just nodding my head a lot.

My bedroom is tiny but yet just big enough for me :-D The dresser is giant and holds all of my clothes I brought. Thank goodness!!! We had supper tonight at 9 pm which is pretty normal for dinner time. We had meatballs and french fries (I'm starting to think all Spanish people like this combo). Dessert was Natilla (a custard like dessert) with apricots. It was kind of like cinnamon pudding. Pretty good.