Sunday. 2/14

Today, so far has been fascinating.  Our day started with a tour of La Alhambra.  This place dates back to the 1300's.  There were beautiful gardens with well manicured bushes and fountains. Then, we went inside and took a tour of the palace.  The structure was very Arabic in appearance.  Many different rooms were inside, including rooms for just the king and his servants and rooms for the queen and other ladies and their children and servants.  There were toilets and baths for the people, which were ideas from the Romans.  So excited to find out that Queen Isabella gave Christopher Columbus permission to sail to find a route to India right at La Alhambra!! And we were standing in the exact room!  I was so thrilled to find this out!  We also walked to lunch to a Moroccan Tea Room.  We had a vegetable soup and my entree was a crusted meat pie.