Megan y Granada: junio 2011

What I'm Going to/What I Already Do Miss About Granada

All things associated with apartment 1c including...

The view from my room

Seeing my clothes hanging and the sound of the clothes being pulled across

Watching Friends in Spanish everyday at lunch

Breakfast on the balcony

Best juice ever!

I would have two or three cups a day. Julio, Maria and I talked about all of the students they've had stay with them one night. They said everyone is different and has different likes and dislikes. They said they'll remember me because of my love for Coca Cola Diet, Juice and Fruit. They told me they remember another girl because she loved bread (glad I'm not that girl).

Walking by windows filled with food like this one

Toastada Mixta (Toast on Italian bread with butter and jam)

The kiosk/the man who worked at the kiosk where I put money on my cell phone

Walking by this store everyday and drooling over the cupcakes

I'm proud of myself because I resisted

The tons of graffiti everywhere

JP and Liz

Ice cream

Walking by places with meat hanging

Wandering into shops like this

Cars packed on the sidewalks

Mopeds/Motorcycles

Adios Granada

The last couple of days I really didn't want to leave Granada. A month is way too short!

Me starting to pack

Maria took this picture of me and she kept saying "Smile girl"

She didn't seem to understand the purpose of the photo...

Me outside Granada's airport at 5:30 am

Plane to Madrid

Jeremy and I

Travel buddies for the day

I don't know why we were so happy at 7 am

Madrid's airport

Coolest airport I've ever been to

There were other areas with different colored ceilings as well

Jeremy with the only thing that got him through the 3 hour layover and 1 hour delay (in his favorite airport ever)

Banana gummies

Had to take a picture because it was so... interesting

Was offered the choice between beef and pasta

I chose pasta thinking it'd be spaghetti and this is what I got instead

One of the best people I know

I couldn’t have survived this trip without one particular person, JP. Our friendship began when he found me at the Madrid airport, the 10^th biggest airport in the world. After waiting about 20 minutes I was thinking “Where is this guy? What’s taking him so long?” I found out later he had to go to about 3 different terminals just to find me. Over the course of the month, he endured my complaining, my freak outs, and constant requests for pictures. Thanks JP for putting up with me (I'm still not sure how you did it) and for always asking me "Are you getting stressed out right now?"

The red spanish pants he never bought but really wanted

JP opening his thank you gift

I got him one for walking me home every night

He was excited

Action shot

JP had a thing about swords- since I couldn't get him an actual one I opted for a wooden one

JP has this weird thing about advertisements

We'd be walking around and he'd just stop and ask questions about ads

JP with his daily ice cream

I'm not exaggerating he ate it everyday

When he would get really stressed out I'd tell him go get some ice cream

once he'd either reply "I already had some today" or

"I can't keep spending money on ice cream"

Last Dinner in Granada

Maria made my last dinner special by making sangria. She allowed us to watch in amazement as she made it.

The dinner table the last night

Meat and vegetables

Me at the table

Roomies

Julio and I with our ice cream

Julio, Maria and I

It was a very sad goodbye

Bike ride

Liz and I had tried to go biking about 5 times, but something always came up. It was our last day in Granada and we decided to rent them for a few hours. We had planned to bike for 3 or 4 hours but we only lasted for an hour an a half. The streets were so crowded and the cobblestone streets and hills made it very difficult. We would have to pull over and stop and say "I need a minute." Both of us hated walking everywhere but after we got back to the bike shop we couldn't wait to get off the bikes and walk.