Día Trece: Granada.

We got up on Wednesday and had breakfast right away. Finding the breakfast area was super weird. We had to go outside and through a random sliding door – very hard to find. The breakfast was great, though. We had pastries and fruit and warm buns and coffee. Upon finishing our food, we left to explore Granada before we had to be at the Alhambra at 3:30 pm. We headed over to a part of Granada called Albaicin, a Moorish district where we could supposedly find street vendors and gypsies, but we didn’t really find what we were looking for. After wandering the streets of Granada, we headed back near our hotel, where we found some lunch and then soon left for the Alhambra. For those who aren’t familiar with the Alhambra (pronounced [all-ahm-brah]), it is a very important monument of Spain. It is a huge palace that goes way back in history, well-used in Moorish culture. When we got there, it was pouring again. To say the least, I was not very happy about the rain. But we made the most of it, walking through the Alhambra grounds and heading toward the palace where we needed to be at 4:30 pm. We stayed under cover as much as we could until we got into the indoor palace. We saw a few rooms in the palace and, much to our surprise, once we got back outside, the sun was shining and the skies were blue. The sun felt so good and again, I was so happy to have the wonderful weather. We got through the palace, and then went up a few towers to see some truly incredible views. After that, we went through the “Generalife” [hen-er-all-eef-ay] gardens, which were beautiful, like the rest of the Alhambra. When we finished this, we were exhausted, so we headed back to the hotel to rest just a little before getting dinner. My parents finally tried paella for dinner and, just like I had warned them, they didn’t like it very much. Of course, trying paella was obviously necessary no matter what, but it really is not that good.