Gibraltar and Jacquelin : )

This past week has been crazy...family visiting, Jacquelin visiting, and midterms! I had my last midterm last night so that went pretty smoothly. The fam was in Granada finally on Tuesday and I'd say it was a good day, we had gorgeous weather(almost 80 degrees!) and I showed them some of the little places I like to go. I wish they could have stayed for a night so I could have brought Pete out to some bars or something but oh well. I waited until they came back to pick me up on Thursday and then went back to Mijas with them, it was a resort right on the beach. Kinda crowded with buildings but the ocean is always so beautiful. We left early Friday morning for a tour of Gibraltar. I actually liked it more than I thought I would, the monkeys are so adorable and the rock itself is so random just sticking straight up like that. It was nice to be with my family and plus they took me out to some good restaurants :) A nice break from residencia food.

I got back here on Saturday mid-day and then a couple hours later I was picking Jacquelin up at the train station! SO crazy! She got here around 9 so we ate dinner and then since it was the only weekend night she was going to be here I wanted to make sure I took her to all the bars that I like. First we went to the chupiteria for some chupitos and then percha bar, then we went to d'caudros and had a crepe de verduras for a tapa, then tantra bar, then a tetería, then we went to makebo which is a reggae bar. It's super tiny but we tried some interesting rums and met some interesting people. I'd say all in all it was great night.

At the tetería we got té pakistani and there was this crazy arabic man working there who wrote our names in arabic on our arms and dressed us up in head dress things. My name is still on my arm but I'm worried that it says something else, because he could have written anything and I would never have known.

On Sunday I took her up to el mirador and we walked around the Albaicin/Sacramonte. It was a little rainy but still nice. On the way back down we stopped for paella vegetal at Plaza Nueva. Unfortunately I had school during the week so I hope she wasn't too bored! Last night we did go out again though and we found this bar that had mojitos, they looked like swamp water because they make them with brown rum here but it was delicious! Then we went to Bar Emilio for some genie lamp drinks.

I had a great time and I can't believe I'm gunna see her again in 2 weeks in Sicily! Crazy!

Now I am just starting to pack for Morocco...I still have to get a few things. I wanna grab a bunch of bottled water and some dried fruit and nuts. That way if I can't eat the food I will have something to snack on. I don't exactly know what to pack though. It should be fine for the city part of the trip I have never been to the desert before and I dunno what to bring! Ahh I can't believe when I get back from Africa it will be April. Time is definitely flying by.