The next morning was a lot like all the other mornings on the trip, wake up early, get ready, go to breakfast, eat a croissant and some hot chocolate then pack up. We were all out of the hotel by about 9:15 or so, with bags and everything, ready to go to the Cathedral in León. The bus took us there, I am not really sure why, and dropped us off in a parking lot a little ways away so it was just a short walk to get there. Supposedly this is one of the prettiest Cathedrals in Spain for some people. We got there and went to what we thought was the front, but the gates were locked so we figured we got opening time wrong and just stood around taking pictures for a while, starting at each other and what not. Then I finally decided to venture out of our newly found comfort zone and walk around to the other side of the church, that turned out to be the REAL entrance, and luckily people decided to follow me, so I just walked in, and slowly but surely, so did everyone else! It was a really pretty cathedral! Its not one of the biggest ones that I have ever seen, but the thing that set it apart from the others is the other cathedrals that we visit is the stained glass windows! All of the windows in this place were GORGEOUS! You couldn’t see it from the outside, but the colors on the inside really made the whole interior of the cathedral come to life! But other than the windows and colors, there was not really much to see. The one room that was available for people to go into had a sign posted next to it saying that you could only enter if you were going to pray. I considered going in and just saying my own prayer, obviously not to the Virgin Mary, but so that I could see the room. But then I figured that’s not really what they meant, and they were probably trying to keep people like me OUT by posting the sign, so I just looked longingly through the glass door for a minute then moved on. There were no good acoustics in this cathedral, seeing as it was one big open space we would have had to hum really loud to get any kind of cool echo, and yes we tested it.
After that we had free time to walk around the city and get a feel of this area of Spain till we were leaving, once again, at 2. So we headed out to go and see a museum that ended up being closed for renovations, so that left us will little choice but to turn around (it was at the end of the street, haha) and head towards the market. This is what you would really picture a market in Spain being. There were a bunch of tents all over the place with people selling fruit and v
eggies and flowers and meat and anything that your heart desired! There was even a little stand, outside in the plaza area, where they were selling cheese! We were there for a little bit, standing in the middle of the market, and apparently we were standing there by a tent that had a boy that was about our age selling strawberries, and he thought that we kept looking at him, when we were really looking at the amazing strawberries, or the people that were behind him. Well… at least I was. So there I was trying to take cool pictures of the lamp post in front of the building with a big clock on it and make it look all cool, when this boy comes around, out of his tent, to have us take a picture of him with Kate! It was hilarious to see him come strutting out of his tent and put his arm right around her and smile for the picture, you just know that he’s thinking “ya… I totally have these American girls checking me out! That’s right!” haha. We laughed about that for a while!!!
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