Serious Blog Time -- Ana

So I haven´t figured out how to get the pictures where I want them (for example at the end of a blog,) but here is one of Ana and I in the Mirador de San Nicolas. Apparently I am an amazing photographer. :) Here we are ready to go out Saturday night. Notice new red jacket from Alicia. Victor is also a good photographer.
Here is a picture of Said, Ana, me and Soufian, outside of his shop.

Ok sorry for those of you who got mad at my lack of blogging during the last 3 weeks or so. I have been so busy doing things to write about that I didn´t have time to write! And that´s a good thing in my opinion. Who wants to know about how many times I brush my teeth a day...

Ok... so Friday with Ana we walked around and hit all the spots on her list, shopping and visiting old friends. Then we came home, rested, got ready and waited for Victor to show up from Malaga. When he got there we visited, and then went downstairs to meet the parents, and then went out for tapas at Ana´s favorite place. Our friends from earlier, Soufian and Said (Ana Accion´s latest Moroccan love interest) met us there. We had one round there and then got in Soufian´s car and went to a nearby pueblo to have fried fish tapas. Soufian keeps his car in a really sketchy underground garage and drives like a crazy person, so it was all a little frightening. But we made it there and back safely, and enjoyed some hearty tapas and Soufian´s impressions of forgien tourists in his shop. Then we walked around Calle Elvira a while, but since Soufian was sick, he went home, and Said went with him. Ana, Victor and I tried to got to all the old hangouts, Babylon and Dolce Vita, but apparently they now suck. We stayed as long as we could, but Victor went home because he was exhausted and we wandered around from place to place, cold and dissapointed with the Marcha, we found in Granada that night. We ran into Deanna´s old roommate, Ghislaine, on the street, totally by accident because she now lives in Malaga too. It was great to see her and catch up a bit. Then we finally gave up and went home around 3??' and went to bed.

Saturday, October, 27th, we slept in, ate some of Pepa´s delicious paella, and went out again to walk around the Albyzin, get some more tapas, and buy the last couple of things Ana wanted, and wanted to see. We came home in the afternoon, ate some dinner and watched TV and were waiting for Victor, but he had gone out to take some pictures. We had been dissapointed with out going out Thursday and Friday nights, but we were ready for Satruday to be the mother of all marchas. (Marcha means going out in Spanish.) So around 9 we went down to look for Victor, but he was still MIA, and we called him and he had ran into some friends and was hanging out with them in the Albyzin. Just around then, it started POURING DOWN RAIN, LIGHTENING AND THUNDERING!! It seems that going out was going to be difficult. Said also called and said he was staying home because of the storm. So we waited a bit, debated what to do, and finally went upstairs to get ready. It was a very difficult process, what to wear, where to go, who else we could call.... Finally Victor came home and we tried to convince him to go, to no avail. But we did convince him to take us to the Mae West, and huge new disco in Granada. We had a good time until the place filled up so much that it was impossible to move around, and the only people who hit on us were really old, gross men. We left there around 4AM and started walking home, and stopped by Merengue, an old Salsa place where Ana saw some old friends. We stayed for a while, and finally made it home around 5 or 4 because that night the time changed, and went to bed.

Sunday, our friend Maria, and old director of our program, picked us up around 2, and took us to her house for lunch. We had a nice time visiting and eating homemade bread with cream cheese and membrilla, a thick, sweet, jelly like thing. We stayed for quite a while, then walked back and stopped by Soufian´s shop to say goodbye and Ana´s favorite schwarma place for one last schwarma. Then we came home, Ana packed everything up and we visited with Pepa and Emilio until Victor took Ana to the airport and then went on to Malaga. I then ate some dinner, watched TV and went to bed. Ana is the best, and it was great to have one of my old girls back in Granada with me!