La concha

La concha
beach in san sebastian

Paganello

Paganello

Thursday, March 27, 2008

SPRING BREAK!

I know it's been a while but I've been traveling like crazy for the past few weeks. I'll give you some highlights so it's not too painful to read the whole thing...

I have been...
  • meeting policemen in a bar (with live music!!) in san sebastian and them thinking that caroline and I were Espanolas until a half hour into our conversation.
  • walking through a super cool aquarium in san sebastian.
  • scrambling to catch the last bus back to bilbao
  • taking the metro to the airport in bilbao at 6 am
  • staying on the beach in the south of france with Marti, the french mechanique. He took us out to a really nice dinner and then we watched ratatouille in french!
  • getting dropped off in Perpignan (the Wilmington of France) without minutes on our phones and not speaking a word of French... an adventure to say the least
  • spending the night in the barcelona airport drinking vodka with Slovakians
  • crashing in madrid with Caroline's friends and making them a real American breakfast in the morning (teaching them how to put ketchup on their eggs)
  • attempting to navigate the public transportation system in italy with my minimal italian
  • playing ultimate with THE COOLEST group of girls from all over the world in Paganello, the biggest beach ultimate tournament in the world.
  • not being prepared AT ALL for the weather in Rimini and playing in the same clothing for 4 days straight. including the day it rained...
  • catching a sweet lay out catch in the end zone and getting sand in places i didnt know existed
  • meeting ultimate players from all over the world (switzerland, germany, argentina, new zealand, israel, england etc)
  • seeing my coach, tim!!!!!
  • hanging out and traveling back to milan with Mike McGee!
  • catching the bus back from madrid to granada with caroline and catching each other up on the eternity (5 days) that we had been separated.
Now i'm back in granada and its soo nice to be grounded for once in a place where i feel comfortable. after taking 5 flights over 10 days, i'm def staying in one place for a while...

but yesterday, we went for a bike ride up to the alhambra!!! it was really hard but totally worth the beautiful view of the whole city.

well, that sums up my spring break, i'm sure there were more adventures but this post is long enough as it is. if you've made it this far i'm impressed!!

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