May 30 and 31st

As of June 2 our address changed again! sorry, the new address is listed below... thanks!

May 31

Hi everyone! Janelle and I landed safely in Spain today! Hoorah! We didn't get any sleep last night because we had to be ready to leave for the airport at 2:30am but it's ok we slept some on the plane and on the bus ride from Málaga to Granada. We arrived at el centro de Neptuna and met our Señora Trini Martinez. She is so nice. We LOVE her. She's married and had three sons--two older ones, one of which is married and a younger son in his 20's. Two of them live at home and are helpful because they speak a little english. We had two meals with our family today and they were delicious. Our señora is an excellent cook, and we loved the food. Although our speaking skills aren't great, we got along okay and I'm sure they will improve:)

May 30

This was a great day! The night before, Janelle, a few other girls and I ate at this Thai restaurant because curry is a popular dish in London. The restaurant was great, but I'm not a fan of curry. It was so spicy, it was burning our throats! haha. After that, we were so exhausted that we went straight to bed at around 10:30. The next day, we woke up for a tour of the city. We saw everything including Big ben, London eye, Buckingham palace, St. Paul's cathedral, Westminister, the Tower of London, London bridge, Drury lane, fleet street (from sweeney todd) and a lot of museums and pretty churches. Our tour ended at Covent Gardens, which is basically a market with great food and a lot of shops. Janelle and I split a "pasty" for lunch which is a common food in London kind of similar to a hot pocket but a different shape. It's filled with a meat and potatoes and veggies usually. It was yummy but boy was it expensive! London was really expensive altogether, especially since it's in pounds which is almost double the dollar. After covent gardens, we rode the tube (which is the subway) to knightsbridge road. Knightsbridge is the place to shop! All the high dollar stores are located here. We went to Harrod's, which is a famous shop in london. It was huge! It had six floors and really really expensive stuff haha. After our shopping, we went to Hyde park to lay down for a while. Hyde park is cool because it's encircled by a horse track so you would see people riding horses randomly haha. Next, we went to Trafalgar square and took some pictures then finally ended up at Drury lane where we ate at the Prince of Whales pub. It was such an awesome place...we felt like locals haha! I loved it! Then, we went back to the hotel for a power nap before going out for the night with some of our new AIFS friends. It was so fun! The british were really friendly and we met some really nice locals.

Funny story: Cute british boy ran into a car on his bicycle. All gasp, then Elizabeth accidentally asks in a strong brit accent, "Are you okay?" He says "yes" then we continued the conversation in strong american accents. He was probably so confused haha! oops!

Quote:

"We're playing a little game of jickery pockery"-Tour guide in regards to the chaos of traffic

New address:

AIFS in Granada

Plaza del Campillo 2

Edificio Marcia, 3*E

18009 Granada, Spain

Love, Elizabeth and Janelle