the bull fight.... :(

this is my disclaimer ----- if you are an animal lover (amber) or an animal rights activist (amber and anyone else) do not read this blog!!!!!

now that thats out of the way i´m gonna try to get in a good blog, but quickly b-c i need to checkout soon. so we went to the bull fight last night. it was quite the experience. i am sort of torn because i am glad to say that i have actually been to a genuine spanish bull fight, but at the same time it was pretty gross and cruel. i won´t really go into extreme detail out of respect for those who don´t want to hear about it, but i did take pics so i can show peeps when i get back home. but i didn´t realize that they actually kill bulls during the fight. i thought it was more just a show for the matador to show his skillz. not so much.... during the course of the show (which was only 5 euros which was awesomely cheap)they killed 6 freaking bulls! i couldn´t believe it. nasty and bloody. and it got pretty old because they were all the same. so i was definitely ready to leave when the show was over..... so all in all it was sort of neat to experience a huge part of the spanish culture but at the same time it made me a little sick to my stomach and i´m not even a hardcore animal lover......... oh, one semi funny thing is that we were SURROUNDED by people smoking in the arena. i mean, we couldn´t get away from smoke being blown directly into our faces. so we figured that if any of us ever get diagnosed with lung cancer we´ll be able to trace it back to all the 2nd hand smoke from august 2, 2008!! :) and a group of spanish men kept trying to explain the bull fighting to us last night in spanish and then they started to offer us some of their alcohol that they were drinking out of this straight up leather cantine. we just kept politely saying no gracias :) and i told the girls that my mom always told me never to drink after a stranger from their wineskin ;)

before the bull fight yesterday we went on a FREE tour of the city. whoop whoop! it was so nice because it took us around all the main hot spots of the city and gave us tons of background info on what we were looking at. so instead of just getting lost on the metro all day it was a nice change of pace to see cool stuff and actually learn about it :)

ummmm.... so i woke up this morning to a swollen lip..... just my right side where my piercing is. so that sort of sucks. i´m not gonna take it out immediately though. last night i had a salad (whoop whoop for vegetables for a change instead of just bread!!) but i think it sort of hurt the piercing because my bites were sort of big thanks to the lettuce. so i´m gonna see if it goes down as the day progresses. if not then i will probably take it out. its not worth it to risk any type of problems or infections, but i will be really sad if i have to take out yet ANOTHER piercing on this trip :(

we are headed to seville today. a fairly short train ride... i think 2.5 hours. and we´ll be there for a couple of days before heading back to barcelona to drop marci off at the airport. i don´t know if i mentioned this earlier but she still never got her suitcase.... pretty frustrating for her but she bought 2 dresses and has just been rotating them :) shé´s been quite the trooper. all i have to say is american airlines is gonna get a mouthful when she gets back to the states ;)

alrighty oh, i need to go back up my bag and hit the road. byee for now