Holy Sevilla Awesomeness, Batman!

We got back from Sevilla the other day.... Sunday night, in fact. But it was a late night; I'll tell you all about it.

Sevilla is beautiful (this is Greg.... Suzy is anti-blogging at the moment). We've got pics up at the site at the usual place. As always, they are a little out of order b/c photobucket uploads the newest first, even when you upload 20 at a time, and I tend to just scroll through the pics.

As for the trip, we took Caroline, Neil's car (b/c there is a child's tale about a turtle called Caroline and his car barely makes it up some hills... not even joking), to Sevilla but stopped at a small village called Osaka, or Osana, or something along those lines. This village has some 500+ year old architecture like a church that is still open to the public and a few other buildings.

After that, we made it to Seville and stayed in a fantastic hostel called Oasis that has sister hostels in various cities around Spain. We totally recommend it to anyone wanting to hit up the most fantastic city in Spain. It was the first hostel we stayed in where we didn't have a private room (it was set up like a dormitory; there where eight beds within two rooms that didn't close off from each other). But it worked out well, was really affordable, and nearly everyone actually spoke English.

Which brings me to my first tangent: I love the city but I suppose I'm glad that we didn't get placed in Seville b/c there was too much English. I feel that I really wouldn't have learned Spanish like I am had we been placed in our anticipated location.

In Seville, we roamed around, hit up Starbucks (I'd rather hit up a "privatier" coffee shop but there aren't any coffee shops around), went to a couple tapas bars, etc. We spent a lot of time in one of the parks. We rented a four person bike-car thing and rode that around the park and had paté and cheese sandwiches like real life Europeans... well, I actually felt really French (is that a French-type thing Caitlin, Kade, Rob or anyone else?). It was really just a huge break in a city that Suzy and I could totally retire in.

For those that don't know or don't remember, I'll mention this here. Seville is the sister-city to Kansas City. We have a copy of La Giralda tower (there are a couple of pics) above Cheesecake Factory (I think) in the Plaza, as well as the Plaza is modeled after Seville. Architecture, horse and buggies, the whole shebang. There is also a fountain in Sevilla that KC has a copy of in the Plaza. We pretty much tried to steal it all as Americans tend to do and then pawn it off as our own :P

We visited the Plaza de Espana (Star Wars Ep. II used this place as a palace for the emperor or something), other plazas, La Mezquita in Cordoba, flamenco joints, along with many other things I just can't really write about. However, we totally planned on letting you all experience it as well which is why we took a bunch of clips and are planning on getting a video out for you all shortly. Suzy will be directing this one so bug her about it this time ;)

Then we got back late and we wanted to sleep. There, I told you all about it.

Be patient with the pics as they will take some time to get them all up.

Update: the pics are all up