Traveling - Jaen -> Madrid -> Athens, Greece, Day 16

I finally woke up around 1:15 after about 5 and a half hours of sleep, and began to pack and had some breakfast. Finally around 2:45, I woke up Jenna who was still recovering. We said our goodbyes and then I was off. I walked down to the train station and caught the 4 hour train back to Madrid. Once back in Madrid, I found my way to the airport and before I knew it, was waiting past security for my flight.. 3 hours to go.. :(
So, I wandered through duty free looking for my "Black Vodka" that I'd been searching for throughout Spain. They didn't have the black that I was looking for, but they did have a red vodka that looked like it might be similar, so I grabbed a bottle of that! :)
I used some internet while I waited to check up on email and to jot down all the addresses of people I needed to send postcards to while in Greece. I ended up copying down 23 addresses, and that doesn't include addresses that I have memorized, like family members and a few close friends!! I had a lot of postcard writing ahead of me! We finally boarded our flight, and to my surprise, the plane was less than a quarter full! I had my whole row to myself, so I immediately sprawled out and passed out! Next stop, Greece!

Partying like rockstars - :) - Day 15

Again, I slept in quite late while Jenna got up at the crack of dawn to go to work. When I finally got myself out of bed, I headed out to try and get tickets to the Alhambra for later that day. But again, there was no luck. So when Jenna came home from school with the news that a friend of hers would be at the Feria later that night, we both forgot about the Alhambra. It's been around for hundreds of years.. what's another few?? So we took a nap when she got back from work, then went out to buy my train ticket back to Madrid for the next day and to visit an Arab restaurant for tea and crepes. These crepes were the most amazing tasting crepes I've ever tasted! They also had amazing milkshakes!
We then headed back to the apartment to make dinner, and start prepping for Feria. Tonight was especially important, as it was the last night of Feria AND because Jenna finally didn't have to work the next day!
Needless to say, we had an absolute blast at Feria, met up with Jenna's friend, and partied like rockstars until 6:30am! It was quite the final night in Spain!! :)

Jaen - For real this time! - Day 14

I woke up on around 1pm today... A bit of recovery was needed, not only from the night before, but also Santander and Germany! I was still trying to get over a cold I had caught in Germany!
Jenna got home around 2:30, and we decided to go up to the castle. Now I called this entry "Jaen - For real this time!" because last year (and it was almost 1 year exactly!) when I came to visit Jaen, we didn't make it to anything in the city that is really notable and worth seeing, such as the castle and cathedral! So we took a cab up to the top of the hill where the castle sits and enjoyed some really beautiful views of Jaen, the surrounding mountains, and neighboring pueblos. On the way back down from the castle, we stopped at the cathedral which was also very beautiful. We then walked back to the piso and took a nap for a little while.
We then looked for a travel agency to try and book a ticket for me for the Alhambra for the next day in Granada, but failed. So we decided to try for my last day at the Alhambra, and moved our priorities onto drinks for the night. We bought some drinks for the Feria and headed home for dinner. Dinner had an extreme likeness to last year's dinners... pasta and sauce. Total cost for two: about a euro!! While we were eating, we got a chance to talk with Victoria, Jenna's roommate, about her trip to the states and saw her photo albums. She went to odd places, like I find many tourists do.. St Louis and Missouri?? Anyways.. After dinner, it was off to night 2 at the feria. As we made our way through the crowds, we ran into the same friends that we were with the night before, and danced all night with them. Again, we stayed out until about 2ish! Keep in mind, Jenna had to work the next day around 9am each day! What a champ!
Oh, and don't forget the half an hour, uphill walk back to her apartment!