Bienvenidos a Espana Lawrences:)

Nazarenos during a procession ( not the KKK)

Plaza de Espana

Marbella

churros

One night at dinner after saying calamari in spanish and pointing to it on the menu
our old blind waiter gave us this...yes it still has its head on!

Last week was Semana Santa (Holy week) and I had the whole week off school. I was so lucky that during this week my parents and aunt Richie came to visit me! I was so excited for them to come because it had been since Feburary since I had seen them! When my parents first got to Spain, I met them at their hotel which was in my neighborhood! My dad and aunt went right to sleep after being jet lagged all day long however  my mom and I went right up to the pool to tan! After the tanning and nap time, I showed my parents around Triana and all my favorite places to go! Then I showed them El centro which is where the Cathedral, my school and all the fun shops are! The next day we went to the Alcazar which is a huge palace full of gardens, I had previous gone there on a school trip but it was neat to see it again because I never got to see the whole thing! Then I took my parents to plaza de Espana, which is where they filmed star wars so my dad was so thrilled to stand in the same spot where the filmed it! During semana santa its tradition for each of the Catholic churches to have a procession with different kinds of huge pasos of jesus and virgen mary that symbolize jesus death and resurecction. Everyone comes to the different cities, especially my city to come see these processions. So needless to say Sevilla was packed so while I was giving the tour of my city, it was quite difficult to move but we just kept pushing our way through ( at one point we ended up crossing through a procession causing us to get seperated and had to climb over a million baby strollers; however after learning to you just have to push people out of the way we reunited together in one piece)!  The next two days my family and i traveled to Marbella! we ended up getting a hotel that was all british speaking people, so it was a nice break for my parents to have a break from spanish and it was nice for me to not have to translate everything for once! When we returned to Sevilla, my parents had a different hotel in Macarena, a different part of Seville. During the last few days, since the weather was rainy and since a lot of shops were closed for the holiday,  we try to do as much exploring and shopping as we could. During the week, my parents and aunt fell in love with tapas, which are basically little meals. Everywhere we went we found the best tapa places and truely eat like spainards do everyday for a week. Although the weather wasnt what i expected and the city was crowded, I was so grateful to spend the week sharing my life in spain with my family!