Me sister and I woke up to our parents packing downstairs. We packed our clothes, and our hostess came by and chatted for a bit. She had given us a delicious bizcocho the night we came; it´s similar to a pound cake and went wonderfully with coffee. She is a big fan of animals, so we talked about that for a while, then said goodbye.
So, we left Orós Bajos around 12 and didn´t feel like going to an awesome-sounding park called Sierra de Guara. We had gone to so many beautiful parks in the past five days! We decided to just hit the road and get to Barcelona, where the next day our parents would get on a plane and go back to the US. The drive was, as usual, beautiful, filled with rolling hills and olive groves, small white houses and forests, blue sky and misted lakes. We stopped in Sabadell, a city outside of Barcelona, and bought a new Billow tablet and 8gb flash drive for pictures. Then, we went to my mother´s aunt and uncle´s house. Mamen is my mom´s aunt, and Paco, the awesome guy who came to visit in Pineda de Mar, is her husband. We were going to stay with them for a couple days before going to Málaga to our grandmother´s. Vanessa and I dropped off our suitcases in Mamen and Paco´s apartment, then headed off to Barcelona to find a hotel that my parents would stay in for the night.
The hotel was supposed to be close to the airport, but it was sadly not. My parents said they would just drop off the rental car in the morning before getting to their flight. That ended up not working out, because the Barcelona traffic and confusing roads got them lost and they missed their flight. Very luckily, there was a flight right after that went through Germany instead of Canada, but they got home the same night.
Anyway, we were starving. For dinner, we went to a restaurant with outside seating near a busy street. I enjoyed looking at the people going on a run, the couples chilling, the bikers, the variety of cars still on the road. We ate some olives, of course, for appetizer, and then I dug in to fried chorizo, patatas bravas, and some of a fried ball of meat that I had mixed feelings about. For dessert I had a molten lava chocolate cake!
We said goodbye to our parents :(. We had such a good time in our major Spain adventure. Then V and I got on the metro and, being ourselves, and our aunt Mamen being our aunt Mamen by making a mistake and telling us the wrong stop to get off on, we got off two stops early. So we ended up getting to our aunt and uncle´s apartment at like 11 pm. Oh well! They were really fine with it. Time to sleep :).
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