(Friday, March 5 - Monday, March 8)
Last weekend, I got to reunite with my love, ANNIE ALWINE! She's my roommate back home at Gustavus who is studying this semester in Sevilla, and although we skype almost everyday, I have missed her an insane amount. I traveled over with my friend Phil, who's best friend Rob was also studying in Sevilla and happened to be good friends with Annie... what a small world!
Phil and I took a bus from the airport to Sevilla, where Annie and Rob were both waiting for us, and I almost cried seeing Annie. They took us out to eat to a Spanish fast food place, where I tried Annie's favorite Spanish dish "Tortilla Espanola" that was just delicious. We sat at this restaurant for well over an hour just catching up, and then we went and got icecream where we sat and talked for another hour. We walked around Sevilla for a little bit on our way to our hostel, and it was a beautiful city. It almost reminded me of Prague in some ways, the clean cobblestone roads with people out walking ther dogs, and it was much quieter than Rome without any of the sirens or horns.
Our hostel "Sevilla Inn Backpackers" turned out to be quite awesome. Phil and I stayed in a four person room with a German couple who was very nice, and the place was very clean and friendly. They seemed to have a lot of events offered for the visitors and we were invited to a rooftop barbeque that night. After a quick nap, I met back up with Annie. While Phil and Rob wanted to go out that night, I just wanted some quality time with Annie so we decided to spend the night at the English movie theater (Or so we thought). We sat down for one of the movies, but it turned out to be a movie in German with Spanish subtitles, and that wasn't going to work... so we decided to go to a later showing of the "Lovely Bones" which we were sure was in English, and to kill time we went and got some dinner. We had a very amusing time at the restaurant with the Spanish waiter who asked us what "North Face" was (we were both wearing the same Northface jacket), and we chatted with him a little bit... Annie knows much more Spanish than I do, but it was fun for me to try to speak it, after all I did take Spanish for seven years! We made it back and saw a late showing of the Lovely Bones and we balled our eyes out, so that was fun :) 
The next day, Annie, Phil, Rob and I took a tour of Sevilla's Castle "Real Alcazar". The palace was beautiful and we wandered through its many courtyards, fountains and patios. There were many gorgeous outdoor gardens filled with flowers and lemon and orange trees, although Annie warned me not to eat the oranges. The best part I would have to say was getting to chase a peacock around the lawn of one of the gardens. Sadly, Annie and I were not scary enough to get it to open it's feather, or it was simply not interested in trying to attract us as mates :) 
That evening, we had an amazing experience going on our hostel's Tapas Tour. They got a big group of us from the hostel together and took us to three different Tapas bars where they ordered an insane amount of Tapas for all of us to share at each one. Spain really likes its potatoes, so alot of the Tapas were really yummy. I did have an interesting experience in eating what I though was an onion ring, but it was in fact calamari, which was disgusting. We also got a drink everywhere we went, I really enjoed my first experience of Sangria, but did not so much like the Sherry Wine (actually I gagged everytime I took a sip). We also attempted to go on my hostel's pub crawl, but it was somewhat lame and took us to bars where there was literally no one in there, so we dipped out of that and went to Annie and Rob's favorite bar called "Agua del Fuego", which was quite fun. We met a bunch of Spanish guys there and they really enjoyed us attempting to speak Spanish to them because their English was not so good. It was a really fun night.
I spent the next day with the group wandering around. We went to Dominos for lunch because Phil insisted, and I felt extremely hippocritical coming from ROME to SPAIN to eat Dominoes, and it also backfired a little bit because I really did not enjoy the pizza (I hope this isn't a sign of how much I'll like American pizza when I get back home!). I also tried churros, deep fried bread, which were delicious. The group then decided to visit Sevilla's Catedral, which is the third largest cathedral in the world. It was gorgeous, and we climbed to the top of its bell tower for an incredible view of the city. That night, we joined our hostel in one of the rooftop barbeques where they cooked us hotdogs and potatoes espanola and we socialized with the hostel workers and the other guests a little bit while lounging on their outdoor bean bags and listening to Spanish Music. It was an excellent way to spend our last night in Sevilla. It was really hard saying goodbye to Annie that night, but I can't wait to see her in a few weeks when I visit Paris and she will also be there with her family, and then for Easter when all of our roommates will reunite in Rome for Easter :)
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