Family Vacation: Marbella

Marbella!! What a trip. It’s a girl trip. The mother and the kids, me, her sister and child and then the grandmother. Everyone is just so chilled and happy. We literally spent all day everyday by the pool. We spend the evenings walking around the coast. So many foreigners.

I went out with a friend of theirs son and his friends the 2^nd night I was there. Hah, crazy evening. Very nice guys, they knew English pretty well so we spoke in Spanglish. By 4am we finally made it to the disco/club. I’ve never been in a club like that before, jooo ee!! It was fancy. And it better have been I paid 10e to be there. It was super sweet. We left the disco with the rest of the world around 630 and by 8am I finally made it home in my pull out bed. Guys, these kinds of hours are totally normal for Spaniards. And I fear I’ve somewhat gotten used to it.

Overall it was really a lovely trip. I feel like I got a lot closer to the family, I got to swim, I got super black, I made fiesta’d, I made friends with the lifeguards, read a lot, I laid on the beach by myself under a full moon, I ate a lot of chocolate and ice cream, I told some really great bedtime stories, I finally finish Hemingway’s “the Sun Also Rises”, I figured out how to change the TV to English and watched my first show since being here in English, watched Spain win the Europe Cup and minus the 20 min on the mother phone, I went 8 days without internet.