1/31/11 Ciutadella de Menorca and some pictures!

Hola! Its me again on 1/31/11...

So I woke up this morning and needed to get out of the house and figure my way around this town I live in.  I have been here for over 2 weeks and have not seen any of it except for what I see walking to the gym and back, and now the Paula has left and I cant rely on her to show me around.  I decided to just go and walk around and hope I wouldn't get lost.  I knew the basic layout of the town, as in if I got lost just say "donde esta la hospital" (in my best Spanish accent) and hope they can point me in the right direction. I live right behind it so at least I know where to go if I hurt myself randomly, which I am prone to do, and can find my way home from there if  I am lost, which I am also prone to be.

Anyways, I was looking for a place to get my nails done. While I am here in Spain playing I get into a routine that includes: sleep, eat, practice, sleep, practice, eat, sleep.  Not a lot of time in there for other activities or even a need to step outside of the apartment sooooo most of the time I am in sweats (its cold right now in Spain, even on an island in the middle of the Med. Sea.  Everyone thinks Spain is all warm and fun and exciting. It's not. Especially here.  I guess when the warm weather does come though, the whole island transforms into exactly what you would picture when you think of Spain: tourists, beaches, sun, gorgeous men and women, fun, etc.  Lucky for me I'll be gone before that time comes. haha. ps I am not complaining at all, just stating some facts) and comfortable clothes.  But I digress, the main point I was trying to make was that getting a mani/pedi is the one thing that keeps me feeling girly. Everyone needs to get pampered every once in a while :)

After about 20 minutes of walking around in circles, I found the place I was looking for. I talked to a man outside of a tanning salon that wrote a name and street on a paper and basically made a lot of hand signals and looked at my like I should understand every word coming out of his mouth, which I didn't, but I smiled and said "oh, grassy-ass", sounding totally American. Whoops! Turns out I was walking in circles AROUND the place just didn't realize it. Lovely.  So my nails looks great and I was feeling all proud of myself for finding it and decided to walk around some more and take pictures of the town.  It is really old and has a lot of historical land marks. I found that out because I walked into a store and the lady gave me a city map and on it they had information about some of the buildings. There is even a museum! I was freezing cold and hungry so I stopped and got a bite to eat before heading home, which I will tell you I found without getting lost OR asking for directions. 1 point for women everywhere.

There is amazing architecture here and I took a few pictures while I was roaming around...

This is one of the main streets

 A fountain with a statue of 2 fat people in the middle (haha this helped me a lot when I was trying to find my way around because everyone knows, as they made a circle with there hands and then water shooting up, "los chicos gordos" fountain.

 The bakeries here are to DIE for. You can literally smell them before you see them and they have every assortment of pastries and bread you could imagine. I. Love. Carbs. (...speakin of gordo) ;)

 This was an old building that is right on the way to my apartment that I always wanted to take a picture of. Its old. It was on my handy dandy map and said it was historical but that was all. I'll investigate more tomorrow.

 Pretty building

 These trees remind me of something that should be in a Disney movie or something. Fern Gully comes to mind for some reason...or maybe Pocahontus..? hmm

 The roads are all so and small. But so are the cars and people soooooo.....

 Pretty sure this is some important political building but there were doing construction in the front so I couldn't get a good look..

This was all I got done today. Tomorrow I am going to find the museum and take a bunch more pictures so stay turned!

Ky