You'll be happy to hear I've been much, much better since my last post. It was a definitely low point of the trip, but this last week has been fantastic.
The girl I was telling you about, Lou, and I finally got a chance to hang out. Friday we went out to Ibiza and had dinner and a couple of drinks. We went to the strip I guess you would call it and watched a parade while eating dinner, then bar-hopped. All of the bars here have their employees outside of the bar trying to get you to come in. The boys love us! Lou is a cute little blonde thing, all tan and an english accent of course. The boys say I look spanish, but when I say I'm American they find that appealing for some reason. So together, we make a good team. And if we're uninterested, we say we have to go home to the kids and they dissappear quite quickly as you'd imagine.
Saturday Lou's host mum, Conchita, invited me out with her family and a couple other family friends that are here for the summer on "holiday". Conchita and her husband own a couple hotels in Formentera which is an even more exclusive island than Ibiza, about an hours boat ride away. They also own a couple of large barcos (ships) which they rent out to vacationers. But when the boat isn't rented, they have the pleasure of using it themselves. So off we went!
view of downtown eivissa as we were leaving el puerto
the boat was like one out of pirates of the carribean, except really nice and not haunted?
the water is insanely blue! almost as blue as galveston beaches
head first into the Mediterranean! it doesn't look high from the this angle...but the drop was about 10-15 ft from the top of the boat to the water. I psyched myself out a couple times, but realized I would probably never be anchored on a yacht in the middle of the mediterranean ocean again, and finally took the plunge.
we went snorkeling for a little bit, but i have to be honest... its kinda of scary! I kept getting panicky being in the open water. I could see the bottom of the ocean, but it was still 15 ft or so deep, and there were medusas (jellyfisy) and mantas (stingrays) all around me.
I loved sailing the most. When they put the sails up the ride changed completely. So relaxing.
The ocean looks like it never ends
There was about 20 people total on the boat, all long time family friends. The kids are really close and have grown up together even though some of them live in barcelona and mardrid now, so it was fun watching them all interact. On the way home, we all say on the cushions on the top of the boat and turned on the music super loud. All the kids got up and basically entertained us the entire ride home. It was one of those moments that are so surreal, I felt like i was in a dream. I really don't think I've ever been so happy in my life. The sun was setting, and the girls were singing and dancing to shakira, the grease soundtrack and michael jackson. I can't really explain why it made me so happy, guess you had to be there. Definitely a day I'll never forget.
I leave for Madrid in the morning. I'm staying two nights in Madrid and then taking a train to Barcelona, and staying 3 nights there. I've been dying to go to barcelona, and after the whole wallet getting stolen thing happened, I didn't really know if it would be possible.
Luckily, I have an amazing family who still supports me from thousands of miles away. Thanks you aunt T and grandmom for all the support, my dad who has been bending over backwards, making a million calls trying to make all of this possible, and my mom who lets me vent and sends me pictures of beezy to keep me going. I love you all so very much!!
I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and update when I get back to Ibiza tuesday evening. Lots of love to my austin homies...and all my buds in cali! Missing all of you tons.
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