Bilbao

So sorry it has taken me this long to post something. I know I promised to post something about my temple trip, but I've been super busy the past couple of weeks. Sorry! If you want to see pictures you can go to my pictures on facebook under march 2010. These pictures will hopefully soon be there as well.
Anyway, this weekend I got to go to Bilbao and stay with my good friend Noemi and her family. We didn't have school friday because it was father's day and so I left thursday right after school. When I got to the bus station in Bilbao Noemi wasn't there yet so I waited for a good half an hour (I couldn't call her because I left my cellphone in Burgos). She finally showed up and then my other friend Zuri came a couple of minutes later. We talked for a while and then we went to Noemi's house and talked some more (Zuri couldn't come this time because she had class).
Friday morning me and Noemi went on a run in the park and it was great up until Noemi almost fainted. Ha, that wasn't so good.

Friday night we went with Zuri to Las Arenas to see the beach and the famous bridge. The bridge was actually really cool. I don't really know how to describe it, but I'll try anyway. There was this bar and some wires and a ferry type thing. So to get across the river you drove onto the ferry and then the wires carried you across, but the ferry never touches the water so it's like you're flying, but not. Does that make sense? Anyway, Las Arenas was cool and I loved the beach.

Here's me and Noemi with a view of the ocean. It was extremely windy, but gorgeous! I've said this a million times before, but I wish I was living in Bilbao!!! Burgos is great too, but it doesn't have youth or natural beauty.

At the end of the day we went to a Telepizza and I finally got to eat a pepperoni pizza!!! Noemi doesn't look too sure about it, but I enjoyed it! I almost ate the whole pizza!

Overall, it was a great day and I was so tired that the next day I woke up at 1. Noemi did her homework while I slept and when I asked her why she didn't wake me up she told me that she would have felt bad.

This is a different beach that we went to Saturday afternoon. As you can see, we're still in winter and we're still in Bilbao where is ALWAYS rains. I think we were in a little town off of Bilbao actually, but it's the same thing, it's the basque country. This place was called Poentxia or something like that.

Here's a picture of us at the beach. It started to rain later so we ended up going back to Bilbao and getting ice cream, but the beach was fun while it lasted. Both me and Noemi ended up cutting our feet on something so poor Zuri had to go around and ask random people for tissues. Noemi and I felt bad, but we couldn't help but laugh.

This was my last night in Bilbao and me and Noemi had fun with hair. She straightened mine for church and then her mom came in and wanted to do Noemi's hair like she used to. So funny! Noemi was embarrassed, but I think the little clips and the clip in the shape of a bonnet in the back look good on her, don't you think? I still think she should have kept it in for church!

The next day I went with Noemi and her family to sacrament meeting in Bilbao and then me and Zuri went to Las Arenas for young womens to teach a song that we'll be singing for youth conference. I got to see Elder Holmes (who used to be in Burgos) and I found out that since the mission is closing July 1st, all the missionaries that would have been going home in the summer are all going home June 24th. That's 14 missionaries! Oh poor Spain. All the changes are going to be hard.

Well that was my trip and now I'm back in Burgos. I'm feeling a little sick and I hope I get better before thursday because that's when I go to Prague, Budapest and Vienna!!! So excited!!! And then after that I go to youth conference in a little town near Vitoria!!! And then I'm going to Santander with Noemi!!! Basically, I won't be in Burgos for a full day until April 12th when school starts again. I love life!