I got to sleep in, which was nice. We all met up at the post office at 1:15pm, but everyone is late in Spain, so we didn't leave til like 1:30. I guess I missed the memo about emailing them if we wanted a bus, so I got stuck walking. I was a long walk, and it was uphill, but finally we got to this huge door, which looked like it came straight out of the movie Aladdin. It led to a big courtyard. From there we could see the Alhambra and this circle-shaped museum. They told us we had 25 minutes of free time, so we wandered around and took pictures. Then we met up outside of the Alhambra.
We got put into groups with tour guides. We opted for the English guide, again. I figured this was important and I wanted to actually understand what was going on. They gave us these headphone things where we could listen to our guide talking, but you basically had to be within a 5 foot radius of the guide. This was both annoying and helpful- annoying because it kept cutting in and out, but helpful when we got lost (which was often, they really did not give us sufficient time to take pictures) and knew we were close when we heard his voice.
My group of about 30 of us followed the tour guide with our extremely stylish headphones into the Alhambra. It was different than I expected- there were different places we went to. The first was what I thought was the real Alhambra. It had a lot of history...and a lot of wind. We got a beautiful view of the city, but it was very windy. On the plus side, it was also a very sunny day.
After this part of the Alhambra, we crossed and went into this other part. There was tons of Arabic art and little courtyards with fountains and pools of water. It was really pretty. We took lots of pictures, or as many as we could take without getting too far behind our group.
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