Gibraltar

This past weekend, we took a day trip with CC-CS to Gibraltar. I didn’t really know anything about the place, but found out a lot in my short time there. It is owned by the British, which meant we had to go through customs with our passports. It was very strange to see all the signs in English with some of the people speaking with British accents. I found it to be a very confused place-many people speak both languages and it is right next to Spain….
Anyways, when we arrived (after singing Spanish songs on the bus with Lery), we had a few hours of free time to walk around Main Street. It would have been nice, except I believe there was some kind of tropical storm while we were there. The whole entire time it rained and rained and rained. No end. We ducked into a restaurant, and I ordered tea…haha…which came with milk, which was new. Amanda and I ate some chips and I tried some of Emily’s fish. How touristy. We then walked up and down Main Street and went into some shops. I bought some Cadbury eggs (yum!) and a pin of Gibraltar. We happened upon a church which was very beautiful. The most interesting thing (picture on the google site), was the prayer request board. There were prayers written in both English and Spanish, which for me, summarized the feeling of the city. After our free-time, we boarded buses and took a tour of the city. Our tour guide spoke in Spanish mostly, but sometimes reverted back to English by accident (he also had an English accent). We climbed the mountain and had to squeeze through some parts. When we reached the top, we were able to explore some caves with some very beautiful formations. There was wedding music playing though-which I didn’t really understand. Continuation of the ‘fantasy’ weekend in Morocco? Finally, we were able to see the monos who were just hanging out by the buses. I was able to take a few pictures with them, but we were strictly instructed not to touch them. Our driver commented that our mono was especially dangerous or something, which made me laugh because he probably knows the personalities of all of them. After some great photo ops, we descended and boarded our buses back home. I would have preferred if it was sunnier so we could walk outside more and enjoy the views of Africa, but what can you do? Gracias a Dios por Lery, who rallied us with song on the way home ☺ Coooorazon Latino (David Bisbal).