Bilbao

Okie. Dokie. Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I had quite the busy weekend. We had a 3-day weekend, so I went home with my friend Nerea to her parent's house in Getxo ( pronounced Get-cho) There were really 3 different parts to the weekend, so it only seems fitting that there will be 3 different blog entries :) We took the 8pm bus on friday night to Bilbao (which is about a 2 hour bus ride). We got in around 10 and Nerea's dad picked us up. We drove to Getxo (about 15 mins away from Bilbao) and there her parents had dinner waiting for us on the table. Her parents were absolutely amazing all weekend. They wouldn't let us do a thing! Each night we had a nice home-cooked dinner, and each morning they made us breakfast complete with fresh-squeezed orange juice.
But anyway, sorry about my tangent.. - After dinner we got ready and her dad drove us to a bar that her friend Natxo ( pronounced Na-cho) manages. We met up with a few of her friends and just hung out, danced, and had a good time. We got home around 3, and crashed because we were so exhausted and we had a busy day ahead of us! Cute little sidenote, when we got home, her parents had pulled out our beds for us, and even folded the blanket back so it was ready to get in. So ADORABLE!

On Saturday morning, we woke up at 9, had delicious breakfast, and headed out. The plan for this day was the city of Bilbao. However it's super funny because in Basque ( which is the region of Spain that is very controversial because many Basque extremists don't want anything to do with Spain and want to secede from the rest of the country) the name of the city is Bilbo. Remind you of anything? Because it definitely reminds me of Lord of the Rings- Bilbo Baggins! bahahhahahaa.. I know. I crack myself up. Anyways- we went to this lookout at the top of a hill where you could see all of Bilbo. It was absolutely gorgeous. Then we took this tram-thingy that was almost like a roller coaster, only it didn't go fast, down the hill and we were in Bilbo!

The first item on the list was seeing a famous bridge. It was really a cool bridge. It's called el puente zubizuri. I have absolutely no idea why, but it's kind of a cool name :) Next stop? The GUGGENHEIM! Such a cool museum. The architecture was fantastic, and the exhibits were really cool. Honestly, I'm terrible with art, but it was really cool to see. Although, I must say that I think the museum hated me. I ripped my pants AND got yelled at for taking a picture. hahahahaha. Whoops! That's what I get for trying to be a rebel! I honestly thought I could get away with it, but then when I took the picture, a bell started ringing and next thing I know I had a woman coming over to me yelling, saying "no photos! No photos! I'm watching you!" This was in Spanish, which made it even more scary! Especially when she pointed her fingers at me and made the "I'm watching you!" motion!

After we left the Guggenheim, we just went and walked around the city. We stopped and had kebabs, and then we went and had ice cream! I had a scoop of coconut ice cream and a scoop of lavender ice cream. The lavender was fantastic! Also, as we were walking, the woman came up to us with a box, and was like, "you want to play a game?" Of course we wanted to play games! So - thinking it was something fun, we stick our hands in the box and pull out pieces of paper. We read what it says, thinking that we are going to find out what our prizes are. Only to find out, that we had all just contracted different STD's !hahahahhahaha.. Apparently it was an educational thing about having safe sex, not a GAME where you win fun prizes. hahaha.. The girl then gave us a spiel on safe sex and handed us condoms. Oh goodness, what a fun game!

We then took the metro home, and took a nap from 7:30-10. Had dinner at 11, and then we got ready. The rest of the night will be included in Blog #2 because most of it took place between 12am and 7am (which technically was Sunday's adventure) :) Ta Ta for now!

OH WAIT! haha.. Here are some photos from the day's adventure in Bilbo!