Awesome way to spend a Saturday!!

Nothing too exciting has happened this week.  I lost my immune system on Wednesday and was attacked by a vicious cold that made me spend most of the afternoon and evening in bed.  Thursday was not much better, but I did stop by the pharmacy to get some throat drops to ease the irritation of my throat.  I´m pretty sure that I was so out of it that the pharmacist felt really bad for me.  He was trying to speak English with me but I couldn´t understand his English so I had to ask him to speak Spanish.  But I got the throat drops with no problem and they worked wonders!  They were honey and lemon flavored and absolutely perfect for my scratchy and irritated throat.  

Then on Friday afternoon I wound up at Camilla´s house.  We decided to watch a movie and good gracious she picked the strangest movie in the world.  It was called "The Ramen Girl," and I know, I know, we should have known by the title.  But it had Brittany Murphy in it and we are both big fans, so we thought it would be okay.  Turns out the story line was pretty much the same as "The Karate Kid" except Abby (Brittany Murphy) is trained by a Ramen chef and has to present her work (aka a bowl of Ramen) to the "Grand Master" of Ramen.  So strange...but we couldn´t stop watching it.  Either way, it was a great way to spend an afternoon with my favorite chica.  :)  We destroyed a bag of my (and now her) favorite chips: Receta Campesina as well as a Coke.  

Today we decided to go to a market that one of the girls in the program told me about.  It's in Triana which is located just across the Guadilquivir River (aka about a 45 minute walk from our house).  It was a gorgeous day out, about 65 degrees with sunshine and a few pretty clouds, so we took our time walking down to the market.  The river was beautiful and there were lots of people out and about.  

This is a view of the river on our way down to the market.

 Trying to be artsy while on the bridge.  :)

I took a couple of pictures of the market.  The one below is, obviously, the sign for the market.

This was one of a stand that was selling dried fruit...aka my favorite.  I did restrain myself from buying any, but I'm pretty sure that I'll go back and get some at some point.  They had tons of different kinds of fruit: pineapple, coconut, apple, melon, banana, pears, kiwi, raisins, papaya, strawberry, etc.  I did get some candied fruit-type gummy things from another stand (the kind that me and mom both love) for a realllly good price.

A picture of all the spices at one of the stands.

Yummmmm.  How appetizing!  Two reallllly huge fish at one of the fish stands.  This was right before we watched the guy chop them up.  Anyone hungry?  ;)

 

After going to the market we sat by the river and talked for a while and then headed back towards home.  We decided to stop by the University to have a little impromptu picnic and eat the bocadillos (aka sandwiches) that our senora made us.  (They were tuna, lettuce, and tomato...and completely delicious).  Then Camilla discovered some cool functions on my camera and went into a picture-taking-frenzyyyy.  I did take the above picture though of the pretty "fence" surrounding the University.

Self-timer pictures.  I loveeee this one of us.  It's completely candid and superrrrr cute!  I had an awesome day with these girls!! 

I came up with this pose!  And we just all look super cute!  Again, love it!  :D

One of me by myself...just for you mom and dad.

Another really cute pose of us.  :)


All in all, a fantastic day spent with fantastic people.  Excited to come home in about 5 weeks...sad to leave the awesome people here.