It's Saturday in (Athens) Granada!

Saturday we woke up in Sierra Nevada...not really a bad thing. We woke up around 7:30, so we were able to get breakfast, check-out, and get on the bus home. Breakfast was free (jackpot) and since they decided in Valencia that they were only going to feed us small portions, I may have looked like a bush baby (not the offspring of the former president yall, it's a reference to how big my eyes got, cripes!) when I found out that it was all you can eat. Needless to say I had my fair share of cereal, fruit, yogurt (they love that stuff here) and juices. They also had makings for sandwiches so I figured what any Frendt would do is make one for the road. After we got all checked-out we headed down to where the busses were parked. They had re-opened the road and we went up to the driver with our slips from the night before and he coldly denied them. He exchanged words rapidly we didn't understand and we exchanged politely back to ourselves in English.

We paid for new tickets and got on the bus and left the Sierra Nevada after a bitter-sweet adventure. We got back in Granada pretty timely and all basically went straight to sleep. We woke up and heard there was one of the biggest open markets in Europe near-by us. We adventured over to the market and come to find out, the 7 Eleven on the corner in the states probably had more food than this market did. Naturally we left (I have a few good pictures from there though).

Our group split up into two smaller groups, one went to Wing Ding's Ressaurant of Duck and Osser Assortments of Asian Sings (a Chinese Restaurant nearby) and we went to a Morocco an neighborhood. The streets were narrow and there were different shops selling hand-bags, hookah pipes, rugs and other items you might find in your basement. We had heard that tea-houses in this neighborhood were among the best so we decided to find one and enjoy a spot of tea. Three of us had a fresh cut mint tea and two others had an earl grey jasmine and rose tea. I have to say that the mint tea was probably the best hot tea I have ever enjoyed. The company was great we sat on the miniature footstools for two hours or so just having some hot tea. It was quite cold and rainy so we only looked around Granada for an hour or so afterwards.

We all went back to the hotel and met up with the other group, had some dinner (PB&J...actually I had 4 PB&J's...how's a hoss gotta survive on just one?). We took another short nap and got up to see what kind of night life Granada had to offer. We went out to a place called Little Havana that specialized in one thing...being little. Half of us decided we wanted to just go hang out at a small bar and have a beer or so, so we took off. The half of us that left found out that most everything but the discoteca's around close pretty early in the night, so we just headed back and watched the NBA all-star game (don't know how that was on but Atlanta really sucked it up) and went to sleep. All in all it was a good day tater. - Sean.

Pics from today: A bit of Gargoyling, a dog I'm sure is happy it's not in an Asian meat market, and random scenic pictures of Granada.