Our engagement picture!!!
This is a picture of some Flamenco dancing we saw in Granada (Southern Spain-Andalucía). We ate at a restaurant one night for dinner and they had a Flamenco dancer perform. There was also a man singing and someone else playing the guitar. This is my future wife. I will marry this woman. She was an amazing dancer and I love Flamenco dancing now. The singing is very unique with a lot of voice inflection. The dancing was also very unique and hard to compare to anything. If I had to compare it so something, at times it was like step. She and the man singing would make a beat with their feel and slapping their lap or anything out. The beat is kept throughout the entire dance and it is high energy. When she was performing, she would usually make eye contact with someone in the crowd. I was lucky enough to be this person once and it felt like she was peering into my soul! No lie! When I was lost in her trance, I decided that we would be married one day! If you all are lucky, you’ll get an invite to our wedding!
These are pictures taken of Toledo’s cathedral. It is the second largest cathedral in the country and my personal favorite of all the ones I’ve seen. You may be wondering why I chose these pictures of the cathedral instead of ‘better’ ones. Well the answer to that question is: THEY WOULDN’T ALLOW PHOTOS IN THE CATHEDRAL! How frustrating is that? It was beautiful inside! My favorite part inside was definitely the two ‘sky lights’ they had. There were two openings in the roof that made ‘sun roofs’ for the cathedral. There were two on different sides of the cathedral so that it would be illuminated at different times of the day. These were so awesome because they had real-life sculptured angels/people up in these skylights. It looked like there were angels looking down from heaven and sharing light from heaven too. It was very different than any cathedral I’ve been into. Also the detail in many of the rooms was amazing and full of history.
Another view of the cathedral.
Our group excursion this past weekend was in Toledo. It was about a three-hour bus ride south into the province of Castilla-La Mancha. This is a picture of the city of Toledo. The city was significantly larger than Segovia; the city’s population was around 80,000 and seemed to be larger all around. We had great weather there-it was sunny and warm. Toledo is a pretty city that has a lot of history to it. For example, it actually used to the capitol of Spain when the Muslims here in power in the 8th century. It also boasts the second largest cathedral in Spain.
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