Lagos and Granada

Alrighty, so 7 of us rented a car and headed to Lagos for the weekend. I hadn't had enough of Portugal's beaches so I went back for more. This is us crammed in our little car. There really was no space for luggage, but we made due. And just to say it now before I get the comments, no I didn't wear a shirt on this trip...ever.
Best story of the trip: On our way to Portugal we needed to get gas. This is what our car said when we finally found a gas station, that's right, 2 km until we run out of gas. At this point in time we were way hidden back in the countryside, cause we got so lost trying to find a gas station. We were almost in deep, deep trouble. We rolled up to the gas station in this tiny town shouting in triumph that we hadn't run out of gas, which honestly was a miracle. Then when we got out, the cap had been screwed on wrong and wouldn't come off! We basically tried for 10 minutes to get it off with no success. Then while we were deciding whether or not to just break it off, one of our guys tried again and just pushed and pulled superhard, and pulled it off. So we finally got some gas and made it out of there.
This is the beach in Lagos. It was incredibly beautiful
The group of the 7 of us. We had a great little appartment with 3 rooms, 2 bathrooms, and a nice kitchen. So we made our own meals and just had a great time. Good work Blake on centering your beer in the middle of the picture...
Blake and I doing dishes after the meal. Pretty standard.
This is one of the huge rocks that jutted out into the ocean. Tyler and I climbed it, and it really hurt the feet.
Closeup of us on top of the beast.
We had to swim out into the ocean and climb up part of the back side of this rock, then try to edge our way around the outside of the rock, which was basically razor sharp, just so we could jump from this high and not land on huge rocks.
This is our little beach, and us playing volleyball, we did a lot of that.
Coolest part of the trip: In that big rock on the right there is a little cave. We swam to it and walked through it and it led us to another beach. Then we swam out and through another cave, and another and it led us right out into the ocean amidst these huge rocks and arches and stuff. It was incredible! And of course to end the trip we had a bonfire on the beach. I had even found and bought some marshmallows in Sevilla and took them with me so we could have smores. Good times. Beautiful beaches. Fun people.

GRANADA
So Carine, Hayley, Micah and myself (yes that's an all JBU trip) decided Monday morning that we should skip a day of school this week and go to Granada to see the Al Hambra cause we didn't want to have to spend one of our last two weekends after we get back from our Feria break travelling to Granada. So we planned on skipping Wednesday. Then during our 1st break in classes we found out that our school was taking a daytrip to the ruins of Italica on Wednesday. Well we weren't gonna miss a daytrip, so we decided, hey let's just leave today. So we booked a hostal for Monday night, hopped a train at 4 that afternoon, and went to Granada. We just chilled that night and saw a few sights, even enjoyed some pizza hut pizza. Then the next morning we woke up and went to the Al Hambra. We had heard that you had to wait awhile, so as we approached we saw this...
I started to think to myself, "Aw that's not that...
..aww dang." and the line wrapped around that back wall too... But after an hour and a half we got in.
Micah showing his excitement for his coffee and my pepsi while we were waiting in line. We played presidents while standing and moving in line to pass the time:)
The gardens in the Al Hambra are incredible. So we took a bunch of pictures of flowers:)
Well here we are. This is the ole, set the camera on a ledge with the timer and hope it gets us all in the picture. Worked pretty well.
Someone didn't know how to use the flash on my camera...anyway, me in one of the courtyards.
micah and I being studs
The four happy JBUers just chilling on a bench. Really we're just happy to not be in school.
Most annoying thing: The famous Patio de los leones (patio of the lions) didn't have any leones...Yay they took them out to restore them. That was sad. Overall it was awesome though. It was good to see stuff that we had studied for weeks in our Spanish art class.
This is the Al Hambra from a lookout point accross the city. Those are the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background.

Well those were my two trips this past week. Tomorrow I leave for London/Dublin/St. Andrews! I'm super excited. I'll be in London 4-5 days, possibly hit up Cambridge for a day, definitely planning on seeing Les Mis and maybe another show. Dublin should be awesome. And it'll be a blast to stay with DnA and see their place in Scotland and finally get to see their world. Well that's it. Time to go deal with a bunch of screaming children in a convent:)