Falling asleep in my own bed (in Alicante )
was magical. Oh how I missed the comfort
of my little space all to myself, no sharing.
The familiar humidity was comforting and the constant hum from my fan
made a cool breeze through the night. I
woke up before my alarm went off so you know that I must have gotten the right
amount of sleep J
I eagerly ate breakfast and got dressed before sneaking out
the door as to not wake the rest of my roommates. I walked to the tram and hopped on for one
stop to get off at the Marcado, walked up the stairs, and figured out which
direction I was in. I found the Central
Market, which looks like a giant bird cage, and headed up the stairs. I walked in on the top floor which is ALL
meat. The whole floor!!! It was shop
after shop after shop of meat and I mean the whole part of an animal from the
hooves to the tongues to the faces…Yup, that’s right I said face…I saw the face
of a skinned pig and the face of a chicken with it’s eyes staring up at me like
“Don’t eat me! Save me!” Let’s just say
that I walked through that floor pretty quickly. I stopped on the other side of
the building and checked out the flower stand that had a ton of options of
fresh flowers to choose from and then headed downstairs.
Downstairs was more of my style with fruits and vegetable
stands and your pastry, candy, egg stands.
There were 5 stands that were just eggs of all sizes which was
interesting and I had to walk quickly past the pastries (not without first
taking a picture) so that I wouldn’t buy anything hahaha J
It all looked so yummy. The fruit and
veggies were my favorite because you ordered how much you wanted and they weigh
it and then you pay. I got 1 kilo of
these white peaches that are in the shape of a squished peach and are
delicious, too bad you can’t find them in the states. They were only 2 euros and they are delicious
and unique! J The rest of the veggies and fruit I loved to
see because it was all fresh and made the market smell so yummy!
I decided to walk back instead of taking the tram to get my bearings
and boy was it hot already. I’ll be
going to the beach today. The walk
wasn’t too bad and it wasn’t as far away from our apartments as I had thought
which made it easy to find my way back.
After I got back, I finished some of my last minute homework so that I
am officially done and got ready to lie out at the beach.
The beach was hot hot hot!!!! I only lasted a little bit under an hour
without getting in the water and not wanting to have to wait and dry off I
decided to just go back in plus I was sans sunscreen so I didn’t want to burn
just toast which I for sure did J…I met with my group to go over a presentation and
then hoofed it over to the central market to grocery shop. I pick up some groceries while having a nice
chat with Madre ;) and then when I got back to my apartment complex I was waiting
for the elevator for a good 3 mins before my impatience won out and I decided
to walk up the 5 flights (which is actually 6 flights since they start on floor
0! Worst idea ever!) When I got to my
apartment I dropped my groceries and ran for a fan and sofa to lie down on I
was whooped and my arms had marks from carrying the bags :P BOOOO!...but I can
feel accomplished that I could, could be the operative word there, carry my
groceries up for the next two weeks I’m here….
Then, I relaxed until around 830pm when I decided to hit the
Rambla with Sam for some dinner and football watching. I had already made a sandwich for dinner, so
I just went along to watch the game and get out of the apartment. When we left the Rambla, we went to the Sand
Bar down on the beach form our apartment.
The waiter was super funny and he spoke pretty good English so he would
mix it up between the two to give us a little bit of understanding of what he
was saying. The beach was very quiet and
peaceful which made the time fly by and before we knew it it was 100am and the
fireworks that were had to have gone off only went off in town so we didn’t get
to see them (DARN THEM :P…I will see fireworks before I leave hahaha)…then we
came back and I got a quick shower before hopping in bed and sleeping until the
sun wakes me up….
Since it was a night on the beach, the wind was blowing a
pretty decent breeze, but it made the crashing of the waves that more
beautiful. The Sand Bar was definitely a
quaint place that I will call my hangout place when I want to get away from hormonal
girls or just think to myself J
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