Place to place

SUNDAY

Happy Easter! Easter in Spain is different than Easter in America. In Spain the bigger celebration is during Holy Week while on Easter Sunday there is no Easter Bunny or dyed eggs. It's more casual. But we got a chocolate egg which my mom hid for this morning because I wanted to have some part of my normal Easter routine.

Today when we got up, it was raining. I looked for my egg and finally found it (it took me a long time considering it was a small hotel room). We checked-out of the hotel and headed to our next destination. Then we drove and drove and drove (which wasn't so bad because of Maddi's playlist) and stopped at a gas station. I got a salami sandwhich on French bread because I was hungrier than something that was really hungry. It was really good, especially for a gas station (the gas stations here have small cafés with real food). Then we drove and drove and drove (in between this driving we probably stopped and wazzed) (this driving was about 4hours) until we arrived in Guadaloupe. Our hotel is very cute, it is a very old building that used to be important but we are not sure why. With the bars on the windows, it kind of reminded me of a prison. But much nicer, it had big wooden doors and a courtyard with lemon and orange trees.

Surrounding our hotel are beautiful mountains with olive trees and wild horses, neigh. Right outside our hotel there is a big church, inside the church is the 'Black Madonna' which is very famous. (I could not take pictures in the church so here is a link http://www.pinterest.com/cathymoney/black-madonna-vierge-noire/ ). People say that the 'Black Madonna' heals diseases and performs miracles for those who pray. After that, we went for tapas around 6:00. I got gambas ajillo which is shrimp and oil with garlic. We also had lots of bread and a big salad, tortillas de patatas, which is an egg and potato thing very popular in Spain. It was really good. Then it started raining so we ran back to our hotel. We went to the lounge and got tea and cookies. We went up to our room and just relaxed. After a little bit we were hungry because we had eaten so early, so we went down to the lounge again and got chicken croquettes. 

We shall sleep in peace now.

MONDAY

Today we went to breakfast in our hotel, I don't really know what I was eating, but something was good. There was some meat, some cheese, and some bread. Then we checked-out of the hotel and hit the road one last time. Two hours back to Madrid! After traffic and more driving and dancing in the car, we arrived at the car rental place and returned the car. Oh I forgot to mention: sadly our car was white not bright blue :(.  Anyways we took a cab to an apartment building that we will be staying in for the rest of are trip. It's across the street from Maddi's school (thank goodness I can't stand being apart from her beautiful face for too long, sighhhhh) <---- Madison wrote that.

 Since our apartment has a small kitchen, we cooked dinner tonight. We had very good garlic chicken that Maddi made (because she is a goddess in the kitchen) and cheese and bread (Maddi didn't make those). It was delicious! I was getting sick of eating out anyways.

Until tomorrow!