Coming Home: Sunday Nov. 8, Spain

It has taken me a while to get to the blog, and I have not uploaded photos, like I should. I am going to get as much up today as I can, for your Christmas viewing pleasure.

Today we woke up and made our way from Torremolenos, where our hotel is, into Malaga proper. We started out by walking down their “High Street” where of course everything was closed as it was Sunday. We were a bit peckish so we found a nice tea shop and had ourselves crepes con jamon y queso manchego. We checked out the magnificent cathedral, but were unable to explore too much as a Mass was in progress. From the cathedral we moved to the nearby Picasso museum.  Some of his works presented there were great, while others looked like the work of a talented of a 6 year old. Even the museum guide pamphlet that was provided called some of the artwork “child like”. It was interesting to the different ways he could view the same subjects in some of his series of paintings. Another interesting thing that we found at the museum was the archeological site beneath it containing 8^th century BC Phoenician ruins, to 3^rd century AD Roman Ruins and 16^th century Spanish ruins all right next to each other.

Despues de el museo, we went to the Roman amphitheater. (Trying out my rusty Spanish a bit, this being Spain. Donde esta el reloj de pescado? Mas rapido por favor, me boca es una cebolla.) From the amphitheater we went to the nearby birthplace of Picasso, and wandered around el centro. Eventually the hunger called again and we found ourselves a café for tapas and sangria, which were tasty. We got to play guess the meat. The chicken, lamb, and livers we figured out. One thing we failed to guess was the spongy meaty blocks that it turns out was chicken blood. (Not the greatest, but edible) Fully sated, we caught the bus back to Torremolenos and did some shopping on seaside looking for a dress for Courtney to wear on the cruise formal nights.  While she failed in that regard she did find something purdy to wear. David found a shirt with a sequin cheetah on it. He decided to take a pass this time, but Christmas is coming soon. ::hint hint::