As I mentioned above my a trip I had planned to Valencia was a no go. I really wanted to go to Valencia for the weekend to see the largest aquarium in Europe but my roommates had other ideas (one of them about saving money....blahhhh) and it was to expensive to try and make the trip alone. Not to mention the fact that I lost my cell phone on wednesday and as a girl the trip alone might propose some extra dangers. So disappointed and little pissed off to be honest I went shopping on Friday, shopping therapy is what I like to call it. If I can't make my trip to Valencia, I can spend the money on some other things that I want and need. I bought some new sun glasses (12 euro) which here in Spain is a necessity, the sun shines constantly. I lost my other ones in a Hostal in Granada. A new big purse (29 euro) because my bag with the ink stain is looking a little homely. A cute white button up on sale (12 euro), some gray comfortable flats (8 euro) another cute dressy shirt from the Levi store (23 euro), and some smelly good (30 euro). Some of those things I could have done without but I would have spent more on my trip to Valencia anyways.
So still itching to go somewhere since I have 4 days off this weekend I had talked Tad and Emily into going to Malaga with me so we could take Tads uncles car. At the last minute Emily backed out but from what I had thought Tad was still willing to make the drive to Malaga Saturday morning. Well Saturday mornign rolls around and Tad has tummy issues. Disappointment number two. So now it's looking like life just wants to play a big mean joke on me this week but I'm to stubborn to let it stop me. Tad knowing that I still wanted to go gave me his phone in-case of an emergency since mine is still missing and will be forever. So I rush to get ready and I get to the bus station alone at around five till 10 hoping to catch the 10 o'clock bus to Malaga. I catch the 10:30 one. Luckily for me after the 2 hour bus ride (which in the car would have been an hour and 15 mins) the phone Tad gave me was dieing. So if I needed to call anyone I was screwed. So here I am phone-less and alone in Malaga trying to find a taxi to the Museo de Picasso. The round trip ticket to Malaga was only 16 euro and my taxi rides were around 4.50 each. I made it to the center of Malaga and decided to tour the Cathedral first. It was gorgeous!!!! I ran into a lot of different tourist's there, I heard Italian, German, I think Portugese and English. The Cathedral was very relaxing and I took a few minutes to pray and thank the Lord for letting me come to Spain. Pictures below.
Afterward I finally found the Picasso Museum and met a fellow Texan while I stood in line. He was an older man who was with a group of other tourists who had just finished the tour in the Picasso Museum. I talked to him until my line started to move and realized what a small world this really is. Sadly the Picasso museum takes away your camera so the only picture I got of it was of the outside. Picasso is one of my favorite artists so the experience there was amazing. Their is a guard in every room and a line in front of every picture keeping you from getting to close. At one point I came across a small book of Picasso which of course was behind glass. Luckily there was a little touch screen that you could flip through the pages of the booklet. IT WASN'T A TOUCH SCREEN. I touched it once and a lady came running toward me asking me not to touch the screen, only to look at it as the pages on the screen flipped through. The museum was also filled with plenty of policemen. It was crazy but fun!!! Finally after five hours in Malaga I decided to head back to the bus stop and catch a bus hoping to get home before dark. My weekend wasn't so bad after all. Tonight I am supposed to tag along with the roommates to a Spanish Halloween party. Lets hope that goes well...Spanish practice right?
