day thirteen: storks in Spain.

this morning, we packed up a van to take a "field trip" to Spain. :) we spent the early afternoon looking at Roman ruins that were left behind in Merida, Spain. It was neat that as soon as we crossed the border, the language changed. We drove from one country to another and back just like we do in the US from state to state. :)

while we were driving, we crossed a 7-mile bridge. at least! :) it was fantastic! as we were driving into Spain, we kept seeing storks nests on about every power line along the highway. my lovely teacher informed us that because of a huge black out several years ago, they started making transformers more "stork-friendly" to avoid those problems in the future... so the storks won't fall and land on the power lines! so good news, all you "save the animals" people!!! if we don't do enough to bend over backwards for all the animals in the US, they sure do it here!!! rest assured... the animals are being cared for here. :)

along with the Roman ruins, we saw some ancient aqueducts today and had a lovely picnic in the park. so for those of you in Iowa shoveling snow, i had a picnic today... so be jealous... ;) we enjoyed watching even more storks and watching the clouds pass as we prayed for sunshine.

after the picnic, and walk around Spain, and finishing a jar of nutella (in less than a week!), we hopped back in the van and trekked back to the other side of the Iberian peninsula. all day today, i felt like i needed a pit orchestra following me around playing either Gladiator music, or Sound of Music. today, i just needed a soundtrack! haha

this evening was spent lounging around, recuperating from sightseeing and shopping! :) 

tomorrow brings READING (it's a new thing i'm trying...), catching some sun (so my skin isn't translucent when i get back to the states), and grocery shopping (because i'm already out of nutella). :) another relaxing day with... no school... and this isn't even Spring break!!! :) :) :)