Corpus!

So far this week has been not too eventful as far as stories go, but I still am in love with Granada!

Monday and Tuesday were days of recovery and classes. Which trust me, we needed to recover!

This week is Las Fiestas de Corpus Christi! Basically starting yesterday everyone was let out of school to enjoy and partake in the events of the Corpus. The first event was yesterday, called La Tarasca! It was an amazing and fun parade! It starts with the march of 4 giant representations of King Ferdinand and Isabella and the muslim King and Queen. Following them is a float with a dragon and a woman mannequin on top of it! This tradition goes back so far that they can't even remember when it started, which they find amazing! Following the initial giants and float there are these people with giant headed masks that come around and whap you on the head with air filled dried animal bladders! The people of Spain LOVE IT!

It was amazing just watching the people of Granada do what they do!

Then because their is the fiestas there was a bull fight. Of course we went to it, but it was pretty brutal! They kill the bull right in front of you! But that's after they stab it at least six times with decorative pinata wand looking things and the matador stabs it with his sword a few times! I tried not to look at it like the brutal slaughter of an innocent animal, but as something unreal almost like one of my dreams! I let some pics do the talking for me!

Also, because it's fiestas there is a fair in town. Yes, a fair! It was our friends' Angel and Seth's last night in town so we went to the fair! This fair was INCREDIBLE! The rides were sketchier than the one's in the states, the food was too expensive, and the games ripped you off like always! What was different was that there are casetas that are sponsored by local businesses and families that basically you walk in and there is alcohol, food, and dancing! IT WAS THE BEST! Firstly, we played a shooting game where you shoot a cork at mini bottles of alcohol in hopes that you knock it off the shelf! I HIT EVERY MARK! I felt so Oklahoma proud! Then we wondered off to some casetas and danced our asses off! We finished off the fair with the sketchiest ferris wheel of my life! IT MOVED SO FREAKING FAST! I have never been in a ferris wheel where you could feel the drop from the top! Luckily, I was so schmammered that I couldn't really tell! Also, another thing different the fair opens at noon and closes at 8 am the next morning! WHAT IN THE WORLD!!! It was around 12 am - 2 am that we were at the fair, WOAH! That's another weird thing about Spain, the children here never sleep! There were 2 and 3 years old walking around at 1 am! Que pasa?


That's all for now, but we are headed to Barcelona in a few hours..... I can't wait to tell you about this trip!

Hasta Luego!