Last week.. My family came to Spain and it was a blast! On Friday I met my parents in Madrid and then Saturday morning we picked up Jason at the airport!
^^ Look how excited he was to see me! ^^
We spent the rest of Saturday in Madrid as well and then Sunday morning we headed to Segovia. I showed them around my town and we went to dinner with my host mom, Amparo, that night. When I found out that she can actually speak quite a bit on english, who knew?!
All of us out to dinner Sunday night
Mom and I at the Aqueduct
Monday morning we headed back to Madrid for our flight to Barcelona. We spent the next couple days exploring Barcelona! We toured an apartment building by Gaudí, went on a "hop on hop off" tour on Tuesday, where we got to see a lot... we toured La Sangrada Familia (also by Gaudí), went to Parc Guell, ate McDonals :) , walked down La Rambla, saw the Mediterranean Sea, and did a little bit of shopping. And then Wednesday, we had our flight to ROME!!
Family picture inside the apartment building by Gaudí
Photoshoot on the top of La Sangrada Familia
Last night in Barcelona!
Rome. Thursday: COLD. Friday: RAIN. Gracias a Dios.. Saturday: absolutely beautiful.
Alright, Thursday included more than just coldness. We toured the Vatican, it was very cool and very beautiful. On Friday we toured the Colosseum and the Roman ruins.. and also got to see it snow in Rome!.. which is very pretty until it toured into rain during are long walk back to the hotel after lunch. On Friday we were able to be outside basically all day! We walked around in some plazas and looked at different markets, went to the Pantheon, Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps.
Inside of St. Peter's Basilica
Roman Ruins.. obviously.
Inside the Colosseum
haha you can't tell that we were freezing or anything...
hilarious street performer
Sunday morning they had to take off early to get to the airport, so at 7:30 AM I woke up to say goodbye to them! And I sent them on their way and I headed back to bed. Although... I was checking in at the airport later that day, around noon, and hear someone yelling "Amanda!!" .. know who would I know in the Rome airport?? So I look to the right, where I had previously seen a verrrrry long line of people and was very glad it wasn't where I had to check in, I see my lovely family. Their flight had been cancelled. They ended up having to wait until Monday to go home, because Amsterdam airport was only accepting flights as their "final destination." Europe has been having a lot of airport closings because of all the snow. The UK was completely closed for a few days. So on Monday they had a flight that went to New Jersey, and then to MN.
Today was our 3rd day of "Jterm Class" .. 3 hours every morning. We talked about vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, etc. I'm starting to think that these 3 weeks are going to go by quicker than I expected....
Well... Merry Christmas everyone!! I hope you all have a relaxing couple of days and enjoy time with your families :)
besos
Amanda.
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