Mallorca 2

Hey all! Mallorca was wonderful, Phil and Kyle are packing and I´m waiting for them in the bar.

After writing to you last night we chilled in Kyle/Phil´s room as Phil wandered onto the balcony and he spoke with some Spanish girls accross the street, one story up for about 20 minutes... the rest of us eventually joined, it was fun/funny. We went to bed early to start early on Sunday morning. We took a bus to the city and trained to Santa Maria for a well known market, in which we spent an hour bartering and talking with Spaniards and actually a fairly large population from Senegal. I finally got some gifts for a few people... :) Afterwords we came back to the city center to find the Human Towers, a competition where each team tries to stack humans as high as they can. Well the paper, our bartender, and the infomation center in the city were all wrong, it was for Monday. We ended up finding a 10k to watch where we had our lunch, which was fun. We then wandered around the cathedral, which are always cool but man, I´ve seen lots of cathedrals by now. We then said our goodbyes to Janet as she has class on Monday and caught a late aftrernoon flight back. Hope you´re home safe Janet! Us three then walked about 2 miles and uphill to this castle that overlooks the city! SO MANY STEPS. Great views though.

Kind of sad - I don´t know if it is all they have, but we saw a family looking all over the hills for asparagus. They were there when we climbed the stairs and when we descended an hour later.

Getting to the castle - So we´d been following this other couple because they didn´t look Spanish, had backpacks, and had cameras. Then Phil thinks he finds a shortcut, so he climbs some wall to try to get a better view and climb over this big wall - as soon as he gets to the top he is literally is two feet from the couple that we´d been following. Just around the corner the wall ends so that people can walk up to the castle. We apparently were too antsy.

Afterwords we walked along the marina to check out some awesome sailboats and motorboats. We then caught a bus back - first time I´ve fallen asleep on a city bus before. Afterwords we watched part of the sunset on the roof of Tierramar, then the latter half on the beach. There hadn´t been sun all day, you couldn´t even tell where it was in the sky. The sunset was probably the best I´ve ever seen. It just kept getting better and better and better. You´ll see photos soon. Afterwords we got Chinese food because we heard their special was a three course meal for 5.70, so why not. Being typical early-eating Americans we had to wait until 7 for the place to open. We then walked along the beach listening to the waves for a while, and eventually found a bar, Steakhouse Tango, which was showing the US v. Canada Gold Medal Hockey game. So we watched the 2nd period through overtime, a great game. Too bad for the loss. Even though we all bought a drink, the bartender continually made references toward us indicating how ¨cheap¨we were being. Afterwords we came back to the hostal at about 12 and crashed. Writing this at 10 AM Mallorca time. Our flight is at 1:30 to Madrid and then we are catching a 6 PM bus back to Seville, should be arriving at about 11:45 PM Monday in Seville time.

Aust