Spain Days 9-12

Hello!  Day 9 was Sunday and our day off.  We got to sleep in an extra hour, which we all needed.  We went to the pool for a while and relaxed and then took off for Cordoba.  (We are staying at a camp just outside the city).    We basically had time to do 3 things.  First we went to the Mezquita Catedral, which was a huge Mosque that was built several hundred years ago, then the king declared Christianity in the southern part of Spain and it was torn down and a Cathedral was built in it's place.  It is HUGE, and it is beautiful.

This is the back side of the Mezquita Catedral

The second thing we did was go shopping.  There were were many small shops just outside the Cathedral.  We also crossed the Roman Bridge which crosses the Guadalquvir River.  The last thing worthy of honorable mention that we did was try a Magnum Bar.  Most of them had not tried them, and deemed them worthy of the praise I had been giving them since the day they met me. :~)

Later that night we stopped for pizza at a little place in La Carlota.  Some of the toppings were a little different than what we have in the states.  One of the pizzas had pineapple, ham, onion and corn.  It was pretty good, but a little different.

Days 10-12 we were back with the kids, but not without some new challenges.  First, about half of us on the team woke up sick Monday morning.  We can only assume that the strong wind on Sunday blew "something" in that seriously affected our allergies.  There were sore throats, coughing and sneezing for all but 2 of the team members.  We also had a couple of kids under the weather.  We also had a few "extra" kids for a couple of days.  Two new ones on Monday, two more on Tuesday, and today we are back to our normal numbers.  Also the conference hours are longer part of this week.  Despite the changes, the new kids (that are GREAT), and the sickness; we are still in good spirits and doing ok.  We just tag team who gets to sleep in, in the morning and who gets the long siesta in the afternoon.

That is all for today....

We only have 2 more days with the kids and we are already starting to miss them.