we love spain 

amber on the moto on avenida de constitucion...proxima parada, avenida de constitucion, banco de españa...haha 

The last day we were there, amber and my dream finally came true...we got to ride a moto! luque finally brought his moto from his chalet and took us around the city. the only problem was that there werent enough helmets, so we had to stop, get off and walk when we saw a police officer...so worth it though 

Our precious family...starting from the left, Masami, our japanese roommate; Aurelio, our little brother; Miguel, our señor; Maria, our señora; Amber; Maria del Mar, our sister; and Kelly 

Amber and Kelly's little 10 year old spanish hermanito (brother). he refused to let me take a normal picture of him 

Well, our last night in Sevilla we all met at Plaza Nueva to botellon one last time...this is all of us singing happy birthday to Rob 

Katie and Kelly with Javie...love our spanish boys! 

some of the guys in our program 

isn't fran a lucky guy? 

at this point, amber and i were just feeling so lucky that it was finals week and we were just enjoying a little play time in the park...we weren't stressing out about finals cause we were in spain and no one stresses out in spain...this is something that needs to happen at wake. oh dont we all wish 

we basically just love spain...so much that amber is hopping over the little stream, if you can call it that :) 

just playing... 

i mean, it is december and look how beautiful this tree is. unbelievable. 

This is one of our cute little ISA directors, Manolo, with katie and amber...love him 

trains, planes and cinqueterre!

Alright so Kelly and I realized the night before our most amazing week of our entire lives that a. we were leaving at 5:30am and b. we were actually gone for 9 days instead of 8 and had a 12 hour layover in Frankfurt-hahn airport which resides in the middle of nowhere and c. that Kelly would convieniently miss her final...cool. But we hit up Rome, Florence, Pisa, Cinqueterre, and Venice. Our first night into Rome we met some Canadian guys who actually ended up travelling with us or actually, we ended up travelling with them haha through all 4 cities.. we stayed in precious little hostels, played a fascinating game of cards on top of the terrace drinking cheap wine with our South African, Slovic, and Canadian friends in Rome enjoying beautiful 70degree weather and Katie unfortunately got her wallet jacked earlier....no worries we were off to Florence where we stayed for three nights and enjoyed the rain, good company, home cooked meals at the Canadian' s hostel, ran into lots of friends from Spain, saw Kelly's friend from Wake, saw the David, amazing piazzas, gelatto, hit up an anarchist party where we were discouraged from taking pictures (we should of known it was sketchy when we could smell the body odor from the dark alley we had to walk down in order to enter) fun nonetheless.. and then said goodbye to Andy and Lars (from Canadia) and ran into them on the train to Pisa, sat with em, saw the leaning tower of Pisa which is really leaning, and said good bye to the boys yet again, then 5 minutes later hopped on their train in fear of not knowing where or what the heck Cinqueterre was ( i said it was a mountain, Andy said a sea-side town, combine them both and you get the most beautiful italian place in the world) sat with the boys again, arrived in Cinqueterra, greeted by UGO our lovely apartment owner who lent us a cute lil apt., the next morning we woke up after a long night of "who's your father" question and answer, then hiked a 5 hour hike up the beautiful side of the mountain, hitting 5 towns along the Mediterranean Sea, gasping at the orange and lime trees, vineyards of grapes, stray cats, waterfalls, and bamboo, as well as gasping for breath because there are at least one hundred billion stairs winding along the path, stuck our tired feet in the Sea after it was all over, came home to a nice home cooked meal, red wine, and some peace and quiet, journaling and taking in our amazing trip in italy.....next morning we were up at 4:30am only to miss two trains, show up in Venice to eat lunch, snap a picture and realize our airport wasn't where we thought it was..cool Ryan Air, then to sleep in the airport five train rides later and arrived in sevilla at 11am (30 hours after our initial departure) IT WAS ALL WORTH IT...WE LOVE ITALIA...CIAO BELLA.

Our first and last day in Rome, we saw all the sights that we wanted to see, despite katies wallet getting stolen in the metro.  

A really cool shot of the Colosseum after the roman soldiers tried to pick katie up 

Russell Crowe gave us a personal tour through the inside of the colosseum...dead lions and everything 

Allegedly our greatest wish will come true since we threw a coin into the famous Trevi fountain  

We don't know what this man is pondering, but we thought it would be funny to imitate him 

cool! 

Roman ruins, more like a big rock garden 

A really cool wall of beautiful paintings inside the Vatican museum 

These are our two Canadian friends, Andy and Lars, who we met in Rome and traveled to Florence, Pisa and Cinqueterre with...three goodbyes and lots of laughs... good times. this picture is in front of the famous ponte veccio, the only bridge not to be destroyed during world war II. Cool!

Look who we ran into...more sevilla folks getting gelato  

Kelly's view of the streets before getting hit by the car behind her...haha, oops