Hanging with the Mom!

For the past 10 days I have had the delightful pleasure of showing my mom around my wonderful city and discovering some new and exciting places!

I took a million BEAUTIFUL pictures at the Alhambra, a Moorish fort/palace in Granada, but uploading them was a bit of a challenge and now they're all missing! So...no pictures of that until I can figure out how to recover the files! But know that the Alhambra is WELL worth the visit. With all the pictures gone, I guess that just means I need to go back sometime! In fact, I'd be ready to go back tomorrow if someone would go with me!

On Tuesday we celebrated my mom's birthday by having dinner at TGI Friday's and going to the musical "Beauty and the Beast." Dinner was FABULOUS. While there are quite a few nice restaurants around here, eating out is expensive and the American restaurants are even MORE expensive, so I generally avoid them unless it's a special occasion. Hmm..whose birthday can we celebrate next?? And even though "Beauty and the Beast" wasn't in English, my mom was still able to follow along (she's seen the movie a million times!) and it was great language practice for me! I was surprisingly able to understand almost everything (it helps that I had the movie memorized as a child and the script is almost exactly the same)!

Yesterday we went to Toledo. We had heard so many great things about it, but to be honest, after Granada, Toledo just wasn't all that impressive. HOWEVER I will say that they make GREAT marzipan. The city is famous for it, and while I've had it before, I've never had it like THAT. It was delectable! I had no idea almond paste could be so good!

Toledo is a medieval town, and the streets make no sense what-so-ever. Twisting and turning, going up and down hills, changing names, disappearing magically...those narrow streets are impossible! My mom and I decided that they must have just built where ever they wanted and then used the space that was left for streets. Here is a picture of my mom and I being not-impressed, but still having fun:

Hopefully I'll be adding some pictures of the Alhambra soon, but if not, I'm sure you can find some on the internet. Or you should just go yourself, and take me with you. Because I'm already dying to go back.

LB