Tuesday, September 13, 2016

After waking up and eating churros with chocolate, we went to Málaga proper.  We walked around for a bit, then ate lunch at a restaurant near the middle of the city.  Olivia and my dad ordered one of my favorite meals: fries covered in jamón serrano, topped with two fried eggs.  God, it's heavenly.  I ordered a shrimp kabob which was cooked to perfection and sprinkled with vibrant spices.  We visited the Picasso Museum, which Olivia and I went to two years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it.  My favorite part was the video clips of Picasso doing quick paint-sketches on transparent glass.  It fascinates me how he could make a few odd lines create a creature or person. 

My family and I then shopped around, bought a few gifts for family and friends, and then sat down at a pastelería (pastry shop) to eat a few pastries and drink tea.  Well, actually, I was the only one who ordered tea.  Everyone else just ate pastries. 

Now, it was off to visit more family!  We went to visit Mama's first cousin Leticia, her husband, Victor; their sons, Victor and Angel (who really is angelic); and Cristian, the nineteen-year-old son of Leticia's identical twin sister, Sandra.  We took them all out to dinner for only 60 €, and ate an enormous amount of food.  Every drink came with a free appetizer, and after that, we got main dishes and dessert.  Cristian and us kids talked about names that can and cannot be translated between English and Spanish.  Harry and Elizabeth, for example, can really only be said in English.  There was one name that Cristain said that made us all laugh our heads off, and he said that it was not only limited to the Spanish language, it would never leave the southern redneck-country of Spain.  Then, we began talking about more serious things, like politics.  This began because Victor (Sr.) asked us if we were voting for Trump, to which we kind of exploded and asked why he even had to ask such a ridiculous question.  Cristian, Olivia, and I then started talking a bit about Franco and Hitler's relationship.  It was so great to hang out with all of them.

Mama, Daddy, Olivia, and I walked back with our extended family to their apartment, and we ended the night by Victor Sr. saying that we were welcome to stay the night whenever we came back to Málaga.  Man, I have a wonderful family.

 This was hanging in a bathroom.  It's V for Vendetta in Spanish! :)

My awesome family