Happy Fourth of July everyone! Surprisingly it is just another day here in Espana. To celebrate we had New York style pizza for lunch and Burger King for dinner. They serve beer with the extra value meal! ( Spain 1, USA 0) The majority of the days was spent in the cathedral. It is the third largest in the world. The highlight inside was the tomb of Christopher Columbus. The cathedral has a bell tower that is one of the few remnants of the mosque that sat o...

Seville is hot. It probably as hot as it is back home. Fortunately they plan for this by creating narrow streets with a lot of shade. They also close everything down for the hottest part of the day. Today we we walked over to the Plaza De Espana. It is a building left over from a world's exposition in 1929. It has ceramics that represent all the areas of Spain. What I liked about it was that it doubled for the planet Naboo in Star Wars Episode II. So not...

We made it out of Madrid this morning after a late night watching the Spain / Italy match. Luke and I went to a restaurant across the way and Ellie and Amy stayed in the hotel. Luke and I both enjoyed watching the match with Spaniards. They were fired up as Spain won 4-0. This morning we had a 10 am bus to Seville. It took 6 and a half hours to get here and I developed a cold over night. I think I blew my nose a hundred times on that bus. We made it to Sev...