Valentin Sancti Petri Hotel Chiclana de la Frontera

... in our program - the beach. Yep, the beautiful, white sandy beaches of Cadiz, the most ancient city in Spain.
We had a fun train ride there - Amanda, Jen, Claire, Shannon, Alice, Hedi, Emily, Lizzy, Emily P., Joanne, Aaron, Ian, and Reid. I played a card game called Big 2 and got flicked in the forehead by Ian when I lost, no mercy. Apparently luck was not on my side that morning because at the end of that train ride, I still had a red welt ...

... and Cameron Diaz in it. I hope they get a part! Lunch was interesting and kind of like eating in a Chinese restaurant as the plates just kept coming! After lunch we said goodbye to the sons and continued walking and finally ended up back at the ship but not before taking a rest in the Plaza DE Espana across from the ship. When we were there the park cat ladies came by and fed the wild cats who were pretty friendly. Great ending to a very nice day!

... of the sweetest sherry called "Nectar" for 8 Euro. I really didn’t like their regular sherry though. They were pretty cool though. When celebrities or royalty come visit, they have them sign a barrel of Tio Pepe instead of signing a guestbook! And they have a family of mice that are sherry connoisseurs. One of the distillery ...

We got up really early (for us vacationers). It was about 8:15am. We decided we would drive 2 hours to a city called Jerez de la Frontera to see the famous dancing horses of Jerez. The tour guide said it was worth the drive... We arrived to another city. Not as big as Seville, but a city nonetheless. Shae was super excited to see the dancing horses. The show started at noon and lasted 1.5 hours. Shae lasted about 20 minutes - which was pretty good for her ...

... where we bought a few cans of the Cruzcampo beer and a 1.5 L bottle of Tinto de Verano - a type of cheap red wine with lemonade. We went to see the pier with the Castillo de San Sebastian, the Castillo de Santa Catalina, the cathedral, the old town and the beautiful Parque Genoves with waterfalls and parrots, and it was pretty much everything, so we went to the famous la Caleta beach and enjoyed ourselves there.

To my surprise, the beach was full of people ...

... was quite the character and very entertaining. he had some great travel stories. The hostal had an awesome rooftop terrace. I'm really glad we stayed there. in the morning we drove to ronda and spent sometime in the city itself before going to some caves that lay just outside of it. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures in the caves, but they were amazing. There was cave painting all over the walls, from several different periods of time. there were human ...

... uw oren is uitkuisen he meneer, was da nu seg! Enkel de toeristen springen onmiddellijk opzij daar kunde dus direkt aan zien da ge met toeristen te maken hebt ipv spanjaarden. In de les zeiden de spaanse meisjes da ze het echt al koud vonden hier, het is hier dus nog altijd 20 ŕ 23 graden he, die lopen hier allemaal met dikke jassen met pels aan en botten en pantys, djeezes, ik zei 'dan wilde ni naar belgië komen ze'. Na tschool gingen we inkopen doen in de supermarkt, ineens rijdt er ...

... je moet gaan staan en dan wordt je dus pas geholpen. Ze hadden ook een zeer mooi plafond (zie foto's). We zijn ook naar het infocentrum geweest voor toeristen en daar uurroosters met prijzen gekregen voor bus en treinen, want we willen zaterdag een daguitstapje doen naar Sevilla en we hebben daar ook ineens paar foldertjes meegenomen van culturele activiteiten hier en bepaalde restaurantjes en dergelijk... Zo, nu zijn jullie weer ff op de hoogte van de afgelopen dagen, tot snel vero x

... 998 people (John and I weren't there yet) chanting 'Barsa! Barsa! Barsa!' We had finally made it. Our four tickets were in four different parts of the stadium, so we all sprinted off in different directions to find out seats. I was almost at the top of the stadium, which in retrospect was the best place to be. I was amongst the rowdy, drunk diehards and our seats were so high we were almost directly over the field. I was sitting about five yards to the left of the halfway line ...

... On the way there, I sat next to the coordinator which helped. He was really nice and asked a couple times if I knew what was going on, granted he never went further to actually EXPLAIN it. They had a couple people come tell jokes at the front of the bus and I had NO idea what was funny because I couldn't understand over half of what they had said. Everyone was laughing...except me, it felt! I later found out there were Americans in the back of the bus, and I doubt ...