Vigo

Saturday (yesterday), the whole group from LC (plus Sam, the other american) spent the day Vigo. we hit up the stores on the main street and did a lot of walking as we always do on our day trips. Tonya and i wondered off for a while and met up with the rest of the group at one of the ports. the pictures are very misleading. yes, there's sol and blue skies but it was COLD!!! Traci, Teddy, Sam, Tonya, and I went exploring and found a beautiful garden which was quite a hike from la estación del tren  while Traci, Teddy, and Sam decided to continue climbing the never ending stairs, Tonya and i found a nice set of looking steps to chill on and talk about upcoming trips and probs embarrassing things if someone could understand English. well, just our luck. this guy has followed us up and was chillen at a bench near us and we sat there the whole time wondering if he could understand us or not. yep, he was def laughing at us. he def understood our english. we should've talked faster and maybe it would've sounded like jibberish like when spanish speakers speak so fast you can't decipher what they are saying. he was from Paris, France. we spoke english with him, cuz his spanish with his french accent was not spanish...that deserved a language of its own. after the others finally came back, we decided to go out for some drinks since people decided we were gonna wait spend literally the WHOLE day in Vigo (8:50 am tren to Vigo & 9pm back to Santi) so the guy from France showed us some bars as we made our way back in the direction of la estación del tren. i was tired, cold, had a cold, and the one estrella galicia threw me off a tad...i crashed as soon as my head hit my pillow.

detour...mini road trip!

las madres de Celina y Aimee walked the 3 of us to the place for our service. it's a solid 40 min from my house. they looked at our map Gene gave us but had absolutely no idea where we were going. so we ended up on a mini adventure to get to our destination. we walked thru some overgrown weeds, rocks, and cliffs so mini army men. Aimee and i both enjoyed it.

Celina's parents picked us up from the "service gone bad" which means they drove us home. it was quite a walk for me approx. 40 min or so but thats just about all the exercise i get so i'm glad it's naturally built into my schedule. the drive was def longer than the walk so i was wondering where on earth we were going. turns out, Celina's parents wanted to show us some country side and horreos (pronounced like oreo like the cookie...i hope i spelled that right...shack like building where you keep extra grains and stuff like that). but then we stopped and got out and took pictures by this beautiful place...old town. me encanta : ) we spoke lots of spanish and it was fun.everyone was really easy to understand and if we didn't know a word, they'd explain it to us. in the car, i had complimented Celina's mom on her english and she said she only knew like 2-3 words. LIES. she knows MUCH more so every time she spoke english she'd wink at me, i'd just laugh cuz she clearly knows more than only a few words. after our detour, they offered to take us out for cervesas and well of course we accepted! and cervesas means free tapas yummmm i love tortilla.

(Celina, Aimee, myself, and Alba aka Celina's mom)

seriously, why are everyone else mothers so easy to understand compared to mine...