Thrusday morning I woke up and went running for the first time in a while. Then I went to the post office and picked up my package and mailed some post cards for Brenda. Then I rushed to the store and bought laundry detergent and fabric softener so I could do laundry. Then I came home and Brenda went out shopping. We did things like this so that someone would be home if her package came. I stayed home all day and from 12 to about 5:30 I just used the internet, watched tv, ate breakfast made and ate lunch and cleaned the bathroom and house. Mostly unproductive. But her package did come and after all that mess and ordeal getting it, the guy shows up, gives it to me, I sign for it and as he is heading back to the elevator he turns and says, "you're brenda?" I say yes and he walks away. I couldn't believe it. All that to just hand it over to anybody. Then Brenda got home after her shopping spree and showed me what she bought and I took a shower. Then at 8:00 we left the house again and went to Corte Inglés to look at a purse she wanted a second opinion on. She ended up seeing another one that she really liked and buying that. Then we went and had churros and chocolate at Cafe Futbol and sat there for a long time. Then we went on a little walk and headed home and watched tv for a bit and went to bed.
Wednesday I woke up at 8:30 when Victor sent me a text message telling me Happy 4th july¡¡ I thought it was 9:30 so I got up and used the internet. It wasn't till a while later that I realized what time it actually was but I was too awake to go back to bed. Then I went running which was horrible. I felt like I had wooden Barbie legs. Extremely heavy, creaky and limited knee mobility. But I finally finished, came home ate breakfast and took a shower. When Brenda was ready we went and visited the Capilla Real, the Royal Chapel where the Catholic King and Queen Fernando and Isabel are buried. I had been before but it was still cool. Then we went to the cathedral. I had also been before but didn't remember it very well, so it was nice. Then we walked up to the Mirador de San Nicolás, then to Plaza Larga and Brenda treated me to an ice cream from Casa Pasteles. Then we walked to the Mirador de San Cristobal and then down through the Albayzín again. We ended up on Calle Elvira and went and got a yummy tapa. Then we walked up Cuesta de Gomérez and did some souvenier shopping. I bought a Granada key chain for Victor, a Granada bag for my self and a coin purse with a sweet map of Spain on it. Then we went to explore Sacromonte. Brenda doesn't like walking very much but she wanted to see it and I warned her. It was a huge walk and I made her walk all the way up to the church at the top, the Abadía de Sacromonte. We got there just before it closed and went on the last tour of the day. The lady was talking really fast because she wanted to go home, but we saw this room with stuff in it, the church and some holy caves. There was a lot of history around the place and I understood some of it. So somehow somebody found out that there was something buried up in that area. Digging they discovered it was the burned up remains of several saints, including San Cecilio, the patron saint of Granada. So the sacred mountain turned into Sacromonte and they came and built a school and chruch and priesty thing there. It was really important throughout all Europe and they do wierd rituals there on San Cecilio's day, February 1st. Like unlock the remains and kiss them. We also saw the caves where they found the ruins or where they were burned to death, I´m not sure and a white rock and a black rock which were found next to some special lead books with mystical writing on them. So the rocks got magic powers from the magic books and if on the day of San Cecilio you kissed the black rock, you'll get married within the year. There is usually a line. And if on the day of San Cecilio you kissed the white rock you would become unmarried within the year. But you had to be careful becuase they weren't talking about divorce or getting seperated but death, the only acceptable way to end a marriage according to the Catholic church. And the legend wasn't specific on who would die, the kisser or the spouse. That was the end of the tour and then we started walking down. Brenda isn't used to walking so much and was about to die at the beginning of our walk. Afterwards she couldn't take it anymore and we stopped and waited for the bus and talked with a lady from Bolivia. Then we took the bus down, walked to Misako where I wanted to buy a bracelet I saw the week before but it wasn't there anymore. That always happens to me. :( Then we went home and I showered and got ready and Victor came over. We listened to the Star Spangled Banner on YouTube and saluted my Old Glory American flag t-shirt. Brenda doesn't like 4th of July. Then after a bit we went and ate dinner at Burger King. It a small immitation of the last 4th of July I spent in Spain where Victor, Emily and I went and ate dinner at McDonald's. It's the closest I could get to a 4th of July bbq. Dinner was good, I do like Burger King and I got a Whopper, fries and Sprite, what I used to get when we went every week after softball games when I was a kid. After that we walked home and Brenda started packing and organizing her things. I went to Victor's house and talked to my sister and dad and Victor for a while. Then I came upstairs and went to bed. Before I fell asleep, I remembered that I hadn't set of any fireworks so I reached over for my pathetic Spanish version. A lighter. After a few clicks I went to sleep. The 4th of July here sucks.
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