Sleeping at a strangers house in Spain = Overall success!

I went to Spain from the 22nd until the 25th of May and spent the night at my penpal's place. I had never met her but I did send letters and trinkets to her so I had a feeling that I would be okay. :) And luckily I am alive to tell about it! Vero was super nice and I had a really good time staying with her and her father (even though he spent the nights at his girlfriend's house). 

The first night I got there Vero picked me up from the airport and then went back to her house so her dad could cook us dinner. :) While I was riding in the car I could not help but gawk at the scenery because it was so amazingly beautiful. I was so happy to see mountains again because there is a distinct lack of them in England and really anywhere else I went...and I didn't really realize how much I missed them until I got to see them again. But Vero's dad cooked us tortilla for dinner and I loved every second of it! :D It was so neat just sitting at a table while everyone is speaking Spanish around me. :) After dinner Vero and I went to the old part of Santiago and saw the cathedral and where the protesters were spending the night. The protest was so cool because it seemed like a little festival, but it was a protest. Oh, there are protests going on all over Spain because of the extremely high unemployment rate, I think it is at 29% or so. But we just meandered around for a bit and saw the old parts of town and then we went back to her place. To finish the night we watched Jennifer's Body, which was amazingly awesome! It was mainly amazing because it was so terrible! I loved watching it.  :)

The second day was pretty much Vero, her friend Maria, and I walking around Santiago. We went to a cute park that use to be a cemetery and saw a bunch of happy couples which enraged Vero and I because we wanted to be those happy couples. :P We also went inside the cathedral which is a point of pilgrimage and there is a stone there where pilgrims would tap their heads on it three times and they would get a wish or something like that. But we went and saw that but the stone was roped off because it was damaged from people smashing their skulls against it. But I got to see the cathedral and the protest during the day and that was really cool! :) There was music and people having fun at the protest...it was nothing like a protest that I have seen or heard about before. After the old part of Santiago we went to the city and had a drink and to talk about what we would do the next day. When we finished the drink Maria went to go hang out with her boyfriend and Vero and I went to another adorable restaurant/bar that had a water mill. The water mill made me so sleepy because it was hypnotic. :) After we had a drink there we went back to her place and made ourselves dinner which entailed bacon, sausage, pepperoni, eggs, and some leftovers...and that dinner quickly turned into us having apples and oranges with chocolate. Yes, we had fondue! :) After we had chocolate and fruit we went and watched the Hunchback of Notre Dame before we went to sleep. :) I love old Disney movies! They are my favorites.

Day three was pretty exciting because we drove to A Coruña which is on the coast of Spain. It was so beautiful there and I was pretty much staring at everything. When we got there we went to see the Torre de Hercules which is the oldest light house in Spain or something and it was built by the Romans, but I really was more interested in seeing the ocean. :) We went to the beach and just dipped our feet in and it was so nice. :) I saw so many old women boobs there and it was very disheartening...I know my future now and it is not a good one. We eventually got lost trying to get out of A Coruña but we got home eventually and dropped off Vero's friends that were with us. We then went on a search for souvenirs that I could bring home...but my search yielded very little because it was like 10pm.. :/ After the search we went to dinner with Vero's father and his girlfriend. They were very nice and I am really glad that I got to spend time with them. :) Even though during the dinner I ate something that had alcohol in it... :/ My sorbet had some kind of alcohol in it and I didn't know that when ordering it but  I could totally taste it. It is all good though, even though I don't like the taste of alcohol. After dinner Vero and I got dropped off at her place and then we went to bad pretty early because I had to leave the next day.

On the fourth day we went to the airport at like 9:30am and I was so tired because we went to bed at like 3am, so I was more than tired. Saying goodbye to Vero was pretty sad because I loved spending time with her and her family. I know I will see her again so I am not that worried. :) Spain is by far my favorite place that I have been since being in the U.K. 


P.S. Vero has an amazingly adorable cat named Tikki and it was so nice being in a house with a cat again, but it made me miss my Tuukka kitten. 

Pictures of Vero and I! :D