Daytrip to Bejar

We made a last-minute decision to take a daytrip within Castilla y Leon and ended up going to Bejar for the day yesterday. Bejar is so beautiful! It looks like an old-fashioned quaint little town and you can see snow-covered mountains. It's so perfect.

We decided to hike a "mountain" and picnic. It was so fun. We ended up going off trail (I know...that's not a rule to break...) and tried to cross a river to picnic on the other side...after a good 20 mins or so of struggling with that we resorted to turning around getting back on the trail and continuing until we found a nice place to stop. It was really great to get away for the day and do something in nature! What wasn't so nice was me falling on our way back down, and cutting up my knee. At the time it didn't hurt, but a couple hours later it was burning like crazy, and cleaning that up last night was zero fun. I also ripped up my favorite pair of jeans in this experience...so that was sad. :( But still couldn't take away from the wonderful-ness of the day!

Something else that's just absolutely great news: sometimes I can get internet in my house...it's outrageously slow and not overly functional...but I was able to look up something for hw, check my e-mail, and skype (until it died) with two friends via my bedroom last night!! And that was a beautiful thing. Today I decided I wanted fast functional internet, so I'm at a cafe across town.

On a not so happy note, I woke up sick today. :( I have a really really sore throat, and I was all congested...but that kind of faded away, so it's just the throat. I really hope that this passes soon, and doesn't progress to anything worse than a sore throat. (If you wanna keep your fingers crossed on that one, it would be much appreciated!)

Oh and an update on my weekend goal of conquering the Waka Waka dance: I can do it all, but I do it with the youtube video, so now I need to make sure I can do it all on my own. Why? Well if I hear the song, I need to be able to spontaneously bust out the dance! (But I still have about 6 hours til bed...so there's still time :)  )

Time to check some things off of my weekend 'to-do' list!
Hasta Manana,

Rachel