¡Hola! I´m back! ;)
Wow. Life has been VERY busy with LOTS of happenings since my last post. Successfully finished all of my midterms, YES! And enjoyed a most WONDERFUL Easter break with Mom, Dad, and hermanito Nelson. Thanks so much for all of your prayers for our family right now, God hears them and is SO faithful.
We had a FANTASTIC Semana Santa (Spanish for Holy Week) traveling all around Spain. I absolutely LOVED being with the family and it was so great to see more of Spain too. I definitely enjoyed showing the family "my" Spain- my home away from home! So while this blog post should have been written well over a week ago, here are the highlights of a FABULOUS week with my fam!
Where to start?!
Madrid- where I met the family Saturday afternoon :) :)
(Hopefully they've forgiven me for dragging them all around the city jet-lagged!)
The Prado Museum, where Nelsers and I got
"cultured" on famous Spanish artwork
Fun!
Don't we look happy?!
I was SO excited to see them!
Puerta del Sol
The Royal Palace!
Couldn't help but sing- Living in the Palace while I was there! ;)
Next stop...
Segovia- city of the famous Roman Aqueduct!
There we are in front of the aqueduct!
When did that hermanito of mine get so tall?! Seriously.
Best part about Europe-tiny streets!
The 'rents! :)
Oh, in case you missed it the first time around...
That's the aqueduct!
On to...
Toledo
Breathtaking views!
We LOVED Toledo!
Never fear Toledo, Eisenmanns are in town...
Showed the fam paella, and they like it!
Next, Cordoba :)
We visited the famous Roman bridge!
And saw a Semana Santa procession leaving the cathedral/mosque.
And then Seville
(That makes my 3rd time to Seville for any of you counting!
And it gets better everytime!)
We visited the cathedral, of course! That´s always the first on my to do list
in every Spanish city.
And this was our preferred method of looking at all the ceiling artwork. ;D
On to Plaza de España
Hands down my favorite plaza ever!
(Chicago should get one, don´t you think?!)
So apparently Nelsers didn´t know this was a jumping picture...
;D
We saw many Semana Santa processions, a Spanish tradition of parading
floats of all the events of Holy week and visually portraying Jesus' last days on earth.
Very impressive.
Gilbraltar
Home of the ROCK and some monkies!
1st day, walked up to the top of the rock! The view was totally worth it!
Did some bonding with the natives!
Proof that we did bring along our favorite photographer!
And we saved the best for last...
GRANADA!
The Alhambra!
View from the Mirador San Nicolas- my favorite spot in Granada. :)
Inside Parque de Carmen de Mentires, but don't worry
we were out by 6pm!! ;)
Touring the Alhambra, little bit raining but it didn't stop us from having fun!
Enjoyed the last day together walking around Granada after my class.
Best 3 parts about this week...
Mom time
Dad time
Nelsers time
:) It was an amazing week filled with wonderful memories I´ll treasure forever! :)
