Dia de los cruces and Portugal!
So this last weekend I went on a roadtrip to Lagos, Portugal with 4 other people from my program! It was a beautiful little city with amazing beaches! We stayed at a hostel and cooked on the terrace and soaked up too much sun!!! 
This was our second day at the beach...a beautiful little cove of a beach, but it ended up being a nudie beach! Yikes, that wasn't planned!
If you're familiar with Luther campus and Decorah Iowa this pic makes a lot of sense! Although it's not spelled the same, the Norses had to pose in front of a bar that reminded us of "home!"
The Atlantic ocean...
This is taken at the end of the world...the southwestern most point in all of Europe where explorers once thought they had reached the end of the world!!!
Spain in Portuguese!
Our delicious fondue dessert on the terrace! (Abbey, Katie, Alex, Felix)
This is a fishbowl drink!!! A real fishbowl filled with a yummy tropical drink and shared between a group with 3 foot long straws!!! (Abbey, Katie, Alex, Felix, and me)
The second day at the beach when I was too sunburnt to actually enjoy the sun...you can see how red I am reading my magazine in the cove!
Cooking a hearty American meal, steak and potatoes....mmm...(Alex, Felix, me)
We're being explorers at the end of the world...(Abbey, me, Alex, Katie)
The atlantic ocean-I was sitting on the edge of the cliff, the water is way down there!!!
It was the perfect Little Mermaid stone, we couldn't resist...
You can't swim in the ocean and not do a Baywatch rescue...however, when I was waterlogged on the beach, Alex didn't know how to help me...
The day of the crosses in Granada is big celebration in which different organizations build big carnation cross scenes and enter a contest to win prizes. People have the day off and everyone is out in the streets enjoying the festivities. There are people dressed in traditional flamenco costumes all day and music plays by the crosses and the Sevillianas (dancers) entertain. People start drinking before noon even and the they don't stop until early the next day. We enjoyed a good night at botellon (drinking in the streets) where over 10 thousand people were during last year's day of the cross...and ended the night at a discoteca, returning to our houses around 5:30 in the morning.
This cross is in a residence hall patio and it has won 1st prize about 7 times! Very cool!
This is hard to explain if you don't know Spanish, but scissors in an apple is a symbol that is displayed at all the crosses and it's a play on words type of thing. It means that you can't talk bad about the cross you're looking at basically!
This is a mini Alhambra cross scene...I hope you all know that the Alhambra is now one of the 7 Wonders of the World!!!
There's plastic on this cross because of course it was raining off and on.
This is about how the whole 6 and a half hour car ride looked like in the backseat on the way to Portugal! It was a nonstop dance party between Katie, me, and Alex!
This was our second day at the beach...a beautiful little cove of a beach, but it ended up being a nudie beach! Yikes, that wasn't planned!
If you're familiar with Luther campus and Decorah Iowa this pic makes a lot of sense! Although it's not spelled the same, the Norses had to pose in front of a bar that reminded us of "home!"
The Atlantic ocean...
This is taken at the end of the world...the southwestern most point in all of Europe where explorers once thought they had reached the end of the world!!!
Spain in Portuguese!
Our delicious fondue dessert on the terrace! (Abbey, Katie, Alex, Felix)
This is a fishbowl drink!!! A real fishbowl filled with a yummy tropical drink and shared between a group with 3 foot long straws!!! (Abbey, Katie, Alex, Felix, and me)
The second day at the beach when I was too sunburnt to actually enjoy the sun...you can see how red I am reading my magazine in the cove!
Cooking a hearty American meal, steak and potatoes....mmm...(Alex, Felix, me)
We're being explorers at the end of the world...(Abbey, me, Alex, Katie)
The atlantic ocean-I was sitting on the edge of the cliff, the water is way down there!!!
It was the perfect Little Mermaid stone, we couldn't resist...
You can't swim in the ocean and not do a Baywatch rescue...however, when I was waterlogged on the beach, Alex didn't know how to help me...The day of the crosses in Granada is big celebration in which different organizations build big carnation cross scenes and enter a contest to win prizes. People have the day off and everyone is out in the streets enjoying the festivities. There are people dressed in traditional flamenco costumes all day and music plays by the crosses and the Sevillianas (dancers) entertain. People start drinking before noon even and the they don't stop until early the next day. We enjoyed a good night at botellon (drinking in the streets) where over 10 thousand people were during last year's day of the cross...and ended the night at a discoteca, returning to our houses around 5:30 in the morning.
This cross is in a residence hall patio and it has won 1st prize about 7 times! Very cool!
This is hard to explain if you don't know Spanish, but scissors in an apple is a symbol that is displayed at all the crosses and it's a play on words type of thing. It means that you can't talk bad about the cross you're looking at basically!
This is a mini Alhambra cross scene...I hope you all know that the Alhambra is now one of the 7 Wonders of the World!!!
There's plastic on this cross because of course it was raining off and on.
This is about how the whole 6 and a half hour car ride looked like in the backseat on the way to Portugal! It was a nonstop dance party between Katie, me, and Alex!
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