Gypsy Museum and Cordoba

I went to a gypsy museum on Saturday and it was pretty interesting to learn about.  First we had to take the  longest hike in the world to get up there though.  Once we were up we learned that gypsy's stayed in the mountains and they would carve their homes into them so it would make caves.  The rooms were very small and the ceilings were also very low.  For each different room you would have to walk outside and into a different cave that they had built.  They had a bedroom, kitchen, weaving room, sewing room, ceramic making room, and a room for the animals.  It was pretty interesting to learn about though I didn't catch about half of it since my Spanish isn't that great.

                                                             part of the bedroom

the size of the whole room

some random art pieces

ceramic making room

On Sunday I went to a nearby city called Cordoba.  It's about a 2 and a half hour ride by bus but I was asleep pretty much the whole time so it seemed to go by pretty fast.  I went with my friend Tayler because she had been saying how she wanted to see it too.  Once we got there we took a city bus close to the downtown area and just looked around for awhile.  We decided we were going to walk until we found something that looked interesting.  So the first place we stopped out was this little plaza and ate our bocadillos outside.  It was about 80 that day so we had really nice weather.  We then walked all the way to the other side of town to see the Roman Bridge and the Mezquita.  The Mezquita is a really famous mosque in Spain.  It's the biggest in all of Spain and the third biggest in the world.  Inside the Mezquita the columns were red and white and there were gold objects everywhere.  They even had a room with all gold plates which was pretty cool.  We spent about an hour in there but we were pretty much done seeing everything that we had wanted to we walked around for awhile.  We found these really pretty gardens but then saw a couple having way too much PDA (public display of affection), so we decided it was time to get out of there.  After that we were back near the Mezquita and found an ice cream shop with Ben and Jerry's ice cream so we treated ourselves to that.  Then we walked back to the bus station and on our way we realized our tickets said that we were to leave at 7:30 instead of 5:30 pm and we didn't want to wait that long so we hurried up to get back there.  We got there and changed our tickets for the 5 pm bus because that's the only other time that was offered.  Good thing we got there when we did because we had 5 minutes to spare before the bus left.  Then we just headed back for the night and I did homework because I needed to catch up on that.

                                                                downtown Cordoba

the roman bridge

the inside of the Mezquita

room with golden plates

me and tayler

the garden

Ben and Jerry's ice cream!