B-You-Tifull Day

Oh Boy, week three almost finished:

This week so far has been interesting! My boss was out of town until late Tuesday night, so I couldn’t really go into Madrid or do anything fun until today. Today I got to go to Segovia- a UNESCO world heritage site. It has a lot of really ancient structures, including an aqueduct that is as old as 100 AD and a few extremely large churches- a synagogue and a cathedral. I got to go with a friend that I met at church here, who is also nannying, and just happens to also be named Liz. Travelling with someone else is so much more fun. We saw the aqueduct, the cathedral, Alzcazar, and went to lunch. We had melon soup with shrimp in it and it was surprisingly good. When I sat down at the restaurant I looked behind my chair and there was a carved sheep leg on the table behind me, covered up by a napkin. Poor sheep. The whole time we ate the waiter just stared at us, he got really twitter patted when he tried to speak English to us, which was funny because we only spoke to him in Spanish.

Funny story of today:

I bought a pair of jeans from H and M. After I bought them I noticed a tag warning that the contents of the jeans (fabric dye) may wipe off onto other materials. When I changed my pants when I came home I found my legs to be blue. Too bad there was no disclaimer about changing skin color :P.

I’m glad I am only here for 5 more weeks. I'm not homesick, but I kind of do not want to be here for too much longer. It will be a good experience but I can’t imagine doing this forever, or even a year. I have planned a lot of things I need to do on weekends here to get through it, here is the low down:

June 29-July 1^st: Hopefully Lisbon, Portugal

July 13-15^th: Scotland 

July 20-22: Marrakesh, Morocco (1st day of Rammadan, I am excited)

July 27-29^th: Milan, Italy

I am posting all of these so that I make myself go!

As for after-nannying travel I have made a route:

Geneva, Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

Vienna, Austria

Budapest, Hungary

Prague, Chech Republic

Krakow, Poland

Warsaw, Poland

Stockholm Switzerland

I am SOOOOO excited.