Tuesday morning we woke up early to make it to the Shumway house at 7:30 to see if we could help this time, and we actually were able to help out a lot more this time than the last, and the scene was a lot like the last time with everyone running, pulling bags and children and everything so it was pretty funny, but we all made it to the bus by 8, which is when it was leaving so that was good! Luckily I brought my iPod, because the trip was SUPER long, and it took me a good hour or so to beat this one game of Solitaire which took up some time and then I just did some reading in one of the many, many books we have to read so all in all it was a productive first leg of the trip!
The first place we stopped at is called Merida, which was a really cute town! The bus dropped us off somewhere on the outskirts of the town and then we walked into the town, over an old Roman bridge, that had obviously been touched up a few times, but still it was a fully roman bridge at one point in time. Then we made it to the city and through the winding streets of this little town, but luckily they were slightly more pedestrian friendly than Toledo, so when a car was coming all we had to do was move to the side of the street as opposed to plastering ourselves to the side of buildings and trying to become one with the brick. On our walk we passed a couple of Roman ruins, that had not been touched up, that were pretty cool. One was previously the palace of some famous princess or something like that (so apparently not that famous, haha) and I don’t really remember what the other one was, but it was sure cool to look at them, all falling apart but still gorgeous. When we made it to the Roman museum that we were trying to make it to, we were informed that we had 30 minutes till siesta and then we had to be out, so… 46 of us were speed walking through this museum, trying to take in as much as possible in the half an hour that we had, all while also taking pictures with the people that they had walking around that were dressed up like Roman people. When it was 2, the usher people were literally pushing us down the stairs and out the doors, it was kinda like when we are trying to get the horses into the coral and they don’t want to go, we were trying to slip through the cracks to see the last little bit of history in the museum, and when they got a section cleared, they would slide these huge metal doors closed to keep everyone out. These people are SERIOUS about their siesta time! Kinda inconvenient when you want to do something, but oh so wonderful when you are a bit tired after school. (I actually just got made fun of by the family because I take siestas in the middle of the day. Haha! The mom’s sister is visiting and she was like, “this one can sleep around th
e clock, she is a very good sleeper!”) And while we were there, someone came up to me and asked me where something was, so that means I look like I know what’s going on! Haha! When siesta was finally done 2 hours later, the park that we had originally come to see opened and we walked in, and after a brief history of the place given to us by some of the students, we roamed around. It was an old Roman amphitheater where gladiators would do their thing, there were still the remains of the places that they would keep the animals before setting them free! It was a little bit too creepy for me to walk into them, but it was an option! Me and this girl named Kari even did a little gladiator run into the stadium that we got on tape, we look super fierce, hair flying in the wind and everything. It’s intense. Then on the other side of that amphitheater, there was the remains of a Roman theater, where you could either just exit the amphitheater and walk to it, or take the underground tunnel that connected them. This is where they would do plays and such, so instead of a big bowl shape like the gladiator place, this was a circle, half with the step seats (you could totally tell a difference in the good seats and then the nose bleed seats quality) and the other half a raised stage with the remains of statutes and pillars and such behind it. It was really cool to see the actual statutes, instead of casts of them like you normally see in museums. We all sat on the front of the stage and got a picture of all 46 of us in front of the Roman remains.
After that we walked back through the city, over the re-done Roman Bridge, and piled back onto the bus and headed for Seville. We got there around 9, checked into the hotel and then went out to dinner at a cute little pizza place in the middle of the city. On our way back to the hotel, we saw the weirdest thing, and it’s pretty hard to explain, so bear with me. Right outside of our hotel there was a little synagogue place, and outside of it there was some sort of ceremony going on. There was this big, almost table like thing with tons of people underneath it holding it off the ground, and the table was draped with a blue cloth, and you could tell that there was something under the cloth, but on the table. Then there were speakers on the cloth and this weird, but happy music playing, while the people underneath were bouncing and walking and other people with turbans followed them. It was probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen! We tried asking the guy at the counter what was going on, and with our broken Spanish and his lack of English we got nothing accomplished, and ended up giving up and going to bed not knowing what was going on outside. Haha.
The first place we stopped at is called Merida, which was a really cute town! The bus dropped us off somewhere on the outskirts of the town and then we walked into the town, over an old Roman bridge, that had obviously been touched up a few times, but still it was a fully roman bridge at one point in time. Then we made it to the city and through the winding streets of this little town, but luckily they were slightly more pedestrian friendly than Toledo, so when a car was coming all we had to do was move to the side of the street as opposed to plastering ourselves to the side of buildings and trying to become one with the brick. On our walk we passed a couple of Roman ruins, that had not been touched up, that were pretty cool. One was previously the palace of some famous princess or something like that (so apparently not that famous, haha) and I don’t really remember what the other one was, but it was sure cool to look at them, all falling apart but still gorgeous. When we made it to the Roman museum that we were trying to make it to, we were informed that we had 30 minutes till siesta and then we had to be out, so… 46 of us were speed walking through this museum, trying to take in as much as possible in the half an hour that we had, all while also taking pictures with the people that they had walking around that were dressed up like Roman people. When it was 2, the usher people were literally pushing us down the stairs and out the doors, it was kinda like when we are trying to get the horses into the coral and they don’t want to go, we were trying to slip through the cracks to see the last little bit of history in the museum, and when they got a section cleared, they would slide these huge metal doors closed to keep everyone out. These people are SERIOUS about their siesta time! Kinda inconvenient when you want to do something, but oh so wonderful when you are a bit tired after school. (I actually just got made fun of by the family because I take siestas in the middle of the day. Haha! The mom’s sister is visiting and she was like, “this one can sleep around th
e clock, she is a very good sleeper!”) And while we were there, someone came up to me and asked me where something was, so that means I look like I know what’s going on! Haha! When siesta was finally done 2 hours later, the park that we had originally come to see opened and we walked in, and after a brief history of the place given to us by some of the students, we roamed around. It was an old Roman amphitheater where gladiators would do their thing, there were still the remains of the places that they would keep the animals before setting them free! It was a little bit too creepy for me to walk into them, but it was an option! Me and this girl named Kari even did a little gladiator run into the stadium that we got on tape, we look super fierce, hair flying in the wind and everything. It’s intense. Then on the other side of that amphitheater, there was the remains of a Roman theater, where you could either just exit the amphitheater and walk to it, or take the underground tunnel that connected them. This is where they would do plays and such, so instead of a big bowl shape like the gladiator place, this was a circle, half with the step seats (you could totally tell a difference in the good seats and then the nose bleed seats quality) and the other half a raised stage with the remains of statutes and pillars and such behind it. It was really cool to see the actual statutes, instead of casts of them like you normally see in museums. We all sat on the front of the stage and got a picture of all 46 of us in front of the Roman remains.After that we walked back through the city, over the re-done Roman Bridge, and piled back onto the bus and headed for Seville. We got there around 9, checked into the hotel and then went out to dinner at a cute little pizza place in the middle of the city. On our way back to the hotel, we saw the weirdest thing, and it’s pretty hard to explain, so bear with me. Right outside of our hotel there was a little synagogue place, and outside of it there was some sort of ceremony going on. There was this big, almost table like thing with tons of people underneath it holding it off the ground, and the table was draped with a blue cloth, and you could tell that there was something under the cloth, but on the table. Then there were speakers on the cloth and this weird, but happy music playing, while the people underneath were bouncing and walking and other people with turbans followed them. It was probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen! We tried asking the guy at the counter what was going on, and with our broken Spanish and his lack of English we got nothing accomplished, and ended up giving up and going to bed not knowing what was going on outside. Haha.
(More pictures will be coming later! No worries!)
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