Granada y Cadiz, España! Day 4 & Day 5 9/7/10 -9/8/10

I forgot to mention the night before we met a guy from Ohio named Rich. He was really cool! He was living in Spain and learning Spanish for the past 6 months (I think it was 6 months) But anyway we ran into him the next morning at breakfast and he joined us. I love meeting random people and so far I’ve meet so many great people who are just so nice.

After breakfast and chatting with Rich for a while we headed to the bus station in attempts to get an earlier ticker back to Cadiz which was a success! We swapped our 630 tickets to 330 tickets. We spent the next few hours hanging at the bus station catching up on facebook & writing in our journals. The bus arrived in Cadiz around 8.

That night a small group of us (Shelley, Ariel, Loryn, Damian & I) decided to take it easy and go out to dinner back to where Ines worked. She was so happy when she saw us it was so cute! Anyway we enjoyed our tapas & sangria while laughing and sharing stories of out travels. Ariel, Damian and Loryn went to Savia so it was nice to hear what they were up to over the past few days. Ines hooked us up again with 2 free shots each. After dinner we headed back to the ship around 1 and had an early night to rest and get ready for our last day in Cadiz. Some rest that I really needed!!

My last day was very low key. I decided to skip breakfast on the ship and slept until about 9 then headed into town to meet up with people who were taking advantage of the free wifi at the Cathedral. After posting some pictures to my blog there I ran into Maria and grabbed some breakfast with her. We ended up hanging out for most of the day and filled out postcards & searched for peanut butter (which was not a success) – So we just stole it from the ship at dinner time (shhh!)
We ran into Jeff who was grabbing some food and found out that he hadn’t tried paella yet!! So we told him he had to try it and headed to the Cafería Andalucía and grabbed some paella & sangria (of course). We spent most of the remainder of the afternoon there chatting and drinking and snagging people who were walking by to join. We headed back to the ship around 4 to beat the crowd who would be rushing to get there by on ship time (6 pm).

Well now im sitting in my cabin and we are on our way to Morocco. We left Spain around 8 (I was napping) and tomorrow at 9 AM we have a diplomatic debriefing which is where someone form the embassy will come and tell us what not to do/ what to wear/ how to cover up ect.. It’ll be really interesting going to Morocco. I’m really excited for it but some people are nervous. We’re going to be there for the last day of Ramadan – which is a month long of fasting where the Muslims will refrain from eating, drinking & sex from dawn to sunset. I’m pretty sure it ends on the 10th. We also have to dress really conservative. We can’t show our knees, shoulders, and absolutely no cleavage or tight clothes at all – It’s going to be a change for sure!! Well its 1230 (really 230 but we gain 2 hours going from Spain to Morocco – they don’t have daylights savings) so I’m off to bed! Glad I’m done with all that blogging :P

Adios! I’ll add more after Morocco. Thanks for reading & email me :) HLCOOPER@semesteratsea.net