Living La Vida Buena in Sevilla!

Hola amigos y familia!  We spent all of yesterday in Madrid, the city is so beautiful, much greener than we imagined and it was actually cold outside! Much colder than Savannah! But around the middle of the day, the weather was perfect :)  We toured the city for hours just walking and soaking it all in. We had our first European food fail... after napping at the hostel we went in search for some food... we stopped at a local cafe and we ordered burgers since it was the only thing we could understand on the menu, lol.... sadly, they were disgusting! Lesson learned: DO NOT eat burgers in Spain. Fortunately, later in the day we learned about a local supermarket closeby. We stopped there and bought enough food for two whole days for only €11, which is pretty stinking amazing since our gross hamburgers cost €7 for one meal. Lesson learned: ALWAYS eat out of the supermarkets in Spain :) We made spaghetti for dinner and it was delicious! We found a cute candy store named El Rincon so we HAD to go in and get some Haribo gummies :) After walking all day I discovered my very first backpacker blister on my pinkie toe, ugh. But Tyler says that my feet will toughen up after the first couple weeks. Our first night in a hostel was great. We both slept all night and got to get hot showers, praise the Lord!

We woke up this morning feeling like new people and ready to move so we headed to the train station. Our first EuroRail train experience was hilarious... we got there, got our tickets, and had 20min to find our train to Sevilla... in a HUGE train station, and of course no one around spoke English so we were going in circles trying to decipher signs for about 15 min and then we found it just in time to board! 2.5 hrs later we arrive here in Sevilla... found our hostel, which again is suprisingly nicer than we expected (very grateful for that) and a local market where we got more food for a few days. It´s really cool learning how to be flexible and okay with not knowing where we´ll be in the next day or so (Tyler is much better at that than me) but it´s helping me rely more on God by trusting Him and rely more on Tyler too. There´s actually a lot of freedom in living like this :)

Okay, well that´s it for now...  we´re off to sightsee Sevilla tonight, going to the river tomorrow, and then tomorrow night we´re going to seea Flamenco show and have paella for dinner! So EXCITED!!!

Miss you all,
carmel