Spain!

I arrived in Cadiz, Spain yesterday! It was exciting to finally get off the ship. I thought I would be more sick of the ship after a week but I really wasn't. The seas calmed down after those first couple rough days. We didn't hit any of the bad weather they expected to from the hurricaine which was such a relief. After the seas calmed down I haven't had any headaches and it's been fun. Anyway, I had a change of plans and I decided to stay in Cadiz yesterday and explore. It was really pretty and hot! It kinda feels like Georgia. I guess I should be used to the heat after this summer. We basically walked around and shopped and found our way around town. We found the beach too which was pretty. I walked along the beach and put my feet in the ocean and it felt wonderful. Hopefully, I'll have time to go back before I leave. Today, my friend Sarah and I got up at 5:30 am to catch our train to Sevilla. The sun doesn't rise til 8 so it was kind of weird being up so long before the sun rose. We got to watch the sun rise which was cool I guess. It's not something I see often haha. So we got to Sevilla and it was beautiful! There was a huge cathedral that was gorgeous! Sarah went to mass but since I don't know any Spanish I decided to go walk around and explore Sevilla. I met up with her after mass. I found this really beautiful plaza or something. I don't actually know what it was and I couldn't find any brochures or maps. I brought Sarah back after mass. I'll put pictures up soon though so you can see it. While we were there though, I set my backpack down to take a picture. I should have known better but there was only one other couple around so I figured it would be fine and the backpack was really heavy. Sarah was taking a picture of me when I look over and see this man walking off with my back pack. I yelled and him and ran after him and thankfully he dropped it and kept walking. I was so scared. There was nothing valuable in it. It was just my clothes but it would have not been fun to be without clothes and make up for 3 days. I'm so lucky he just dropped it! I sure learned my lesson. I've been super careful with my purse the whole time though because it has my passport, money and cameras in it. After that little incident we went back to the train station to go to Malaga because Sarah has a friend Drew that lives here. He and Sarah are both from Colorado but he's been living in Spain for the past 4 years. We're staying at his apartment and thankfully he has internet! We went out to dinner and he brought along his Spanish girlfriend. She was really sweet but she didn't speak much English and I don't know any Spanish so he translated the whole time. Dinner was interesting. We started out at one cafe and just got drinks because it was early and restaurants don't open for dinner until around 9pm. I got a coke because they don't have coke on the ship and I was craving one. We stayed there for probably close to an hour and just talked. Then we walked around the town and he showed us around. It was like having our own tour guide. Then we went to another cafe for basically wine tasting. They ordered 4 little glasses and we all tried them. I tried them but I didn't particulary care for any of them. After that we went to another cafe for tapas. Apparently this cafe hopping is common. You go for drinks and then go to another cafe and just keep moving. It was kind of cool. We ordered 4 different tapas and all shared. I liked some of them and some I didn't but I ate enough to where I was full. I'm glad we had them order for us because I would have no idea what to order or what anything was. After dinner we walked around for a little while again. It was around 11:30 pm at this point and we stopped at one more place and I got a coke again. They give you a glass bottle of coke and you don't get refills. Drew has some touristy stuff planned for us tomorrow so I'm excited.