Flamenco, Films, and Fun

After camp yesterday we headed back to the Convent for a much needed Siesta. Wednesday is hump day, right? Yeah, we noticed big time yesterday. It's safe to say that most of the team could have slept from 4pm to the next day. However, we had plans for the night, being the popular and exciting group we are.

Flamenco dancing is an artform that most of the team never had the pleasure of experiencing before. We traveled in a bus through the winding roads of the Albaicin, heading up into the mountains. After almost flattening people into walls on particularly small roads and biting our nails when the bus came too close to homes for comfort, we made it to our destination. Now the Albaicin has a lot of history but for all extensive purposes, I'll just tell you that it is an Arabic area with homes built into mountain sides, mostly white painted living places, and inhabited by mainly gypsies (hope I'm right about this...hehe). Anyways, walking into the cave where the show would be was like walking into a different world. Pictures of Flamenco dancers dating way back lined the walls, copper pots and ladles hung on walls and from the ceiling. Seats were set up along the wall to the very back of the room providing a narrow dance floor. It was all very intimate and the music seemed to pulsate through you. The dancing was fantastic. Oh, and cool stuff... Apparently Michelle Obama had gone to this place to see the Flamenco dancing too. There was a picture of her with all the dancers in the cave and around the house/restaurant that surrounded it. It was significantly bigger than all the pictures. haha.

The view from nearly everywhere is beautiful in the Albaicin. From this lookout point way up into the city, it looked like all of Granada was sprawled out in front of you with bright lights decorating the ground like fallen stars. There was a perfect view of the Alhambra from that point as well. Kinda amazingly wonderful.

I am writing this while we wait for camp to start. We are watching the videos that we made in our groups yesterday. In the films we were supposed to sell the Zaidin as a vacation spot...the movies should be pretty funny.

Dinner with the kids tonight! Another update tomorrow, Lord willing.

LOVE, Carly and the team :)