Canary Islands

Finally! A nice relaxing break with some sun and some ocean. This is my kind of trip.

Us girls decided to take 5 days to go to the Canary Islands! It was so great. Not exactly as sunny as I was hoping, but we definitely got some sun and did a ton of exploring. Getting there was a little rough, and I'm still apologizing to my parents for freaking them out, but we made it!

I've decided that I'm just going to start walking everywhere because traveling is soooooo not worth it.

The plan was to take a bus from Granada to Madrid for our flight. The 1:30 am bus would get us there in plenty of time. Since we were leaving on a Monday we didn't buy a bus ticket ahead of time because who travels on a Monday when there's still class for the rest of the week? Apparently everyone.

We got to the bus station around 11:30pm all ready to buy our tickets and there's literally one seat left. Well unless we can all sit on each other's laps, we have a problem. We have 10 hours to get to Madrid. Ok, what are our options?? Fly from Granada, won't work. Train from Granada, won't work. Bus from Granada, obviously won't work.

We ended up taking a taxi to Malaga and then a train to Madrid. I am still in disbelief. To put it in perspective, we took a taxi from Albert Lea to Worthington, and then a train from Worthington to Omaha. Seriously? We can laugh about it now, but there were definitely tears shed Monday night.
I sent my dad this dramatic email and didn't explain what was going on... sorry dad. Love you!

We got to the Canary Islands and headed straight for the beach. It was just beautiful! This trip is easier described in pictures.

This was the beach right outside our hostel.

First day on the beach and I already had Kelsey buried in the sand as a mermaid. Dad and I got really good at this after all the summer trips to the beach, looks like it came in handy!

There was this pier and a bunch of rocks a little ways down from our hostel so we went exploring. During low tide I could walk out on the rocks and see all the creatures that got caught between the rocks. Pretty much just little fish and some crazy huge crabs.

We spent a day in Maspalomas where it's supposedly always sunny- and it was! It was a beautiful day soaking up the sun.

Us girls. Kelsey is in the middle and Deanna on the right. We live together and they are so great!

So at our hostel, we met a girl (the blond) from Australia, a boy from Tennessee studying in France, and a boy from Taiwan also studying in France. They came to the beach with us and we had a great time together!

So in Maspalomas there are also sand dunes. It's a drastic difference from beach to dunes right next to each other. We  got to explore all around the island on the dunes.

Had to. Sorry.

Successfully climbed over all the dunes and headed back to the beach!

There was this huge dune, so we each got a photo op on top of it. What a view!

There you have it. I don't think I've had a stress-free trip yet. I guess I'll keep trying until I get it right...