Granada again! May 19-June 2

On May 20th, we drove back to Granada where we had previously visited last fall. We met up with our friends Sarah and Dan and stayed in the heart of the Albaicin. This time we explored different parts of the city, discovered new places and events in the familiar neighborhoods, and went on a cool river hike outside the city.

Quintessential Spain

Out for bar hopping drinks and free tapas with Sarah and Dan while their son Gabriel babysat the boys.

What are these traditionally dressed folks doing outside our place?

Oh it's a thing.

A procession of music, singing, and bulls pulling a cart from a chapel to kick off a symbolic pilgrimage to Seville.

Ancient bridge remnants at the base of the Alhambra

On our way to the science museum we caught up with the procession

Granda's Science Museum!

Native Ibearian Ibex taxonomy sculpture. In the next photo, Galileo's self-made telescope next to Newton's telescope. What??? This museum is crazy.

A meteorite of Mars and of the Moon.

Meteriorites of all beautiful types from all over the world.

They had soooo much memorabilia from the Apollo missions including Buzz Aldrin's suit and a few of Neil Armstrong's tools.

The Museum also included a biosphere

Monkeys, lemurs and birds in an open enclosure with visitors.

A fin whale

By far one of the best science museums we've ever seen. A must-do with kids in Granada!

A large wing dedicated to medical discoveries and new technologies.

Back at the central market at a new Mezcaleria--taste of our days in Mexico...last month.

More procession stuff outside our place.

Goodbye Granda!

So charming.

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A river gorge hike at Monachil just outside Granada before driving back home to Torremolinos.

Figs

Several suspension bridges, one of the longest in Spain!

An amazing hike and would be so refreshing to hike in the water during the hot summer months.

The path along the river called for frequent ducking, crouching and even crawling.

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Back at school, Drion's musical.

Drion is in the yellow shirt and red apron playing his part and singing in the year 2 Columbus musical production at school.

Making cake with mommy.

Look who's here! Vale, our Argentian au pair from 2018!

We connected with her a year later in 2019 in Cape Cod when she was living with another family in Connecticut. Then she came to visit us in Costa Rica in January and now she's with another family visiting Marbella this week so we went to visit her for breakfast. She's become a good friend over the years and we wonder when we'll see her again.