it's totally the well from army of darkness

shit guys, i really suck at this. it's been a really long time, and i honestly have no excuse besides i just get really bored.. like bored beyond the want of doing anything. I'll try to be better I promise. So I have about 3 weeks to catch you guys up on. And by 3 weeks, I mean 3 weekends, because let's face it, the weekdays are a little on the dry side. I go to class, sometimes a lot and sometimes a little, I do homework, teach, go to intercambio and every once in a while a fun thing (like the Beatles tribute last Thursday). Maybe if I stop failing so much, I'll be able to tell you all about the nuances of Spanish life, but it really isn't all excursions and travelling.

Starting with excursions. Three weekends ago we went to the province of Valladolid. Yep, you heard me; we went on an excursion to our own province. Valladolid is the center of it, or capital of sorts, so we went around to some historic sites- three exactly. This seems to be a little bit of a pattern. Anyway, our first stop was La Villa Romana, or Roman village. In case you guys weren't aware, Spain used to be controlled by Romans around the 1st century. This is why Spanish is a ROMANtic language, also why I said some things about a Roman aqueduct in Segovia. Anyway, they found this old village buried underneath a farm type area and began to excavate it. It's in incredible condition still. Really unbelievable.

Fake excavators on site

some of the original mosaic tiling

more of it

these guys actually had running water back then. crap!

 

 

 

So after we hit up the historical aspect, we went to this reenactment place just on the other side of the field. There were some fake drunk and in love Romans walking around. Can't say I understood everything, but it was very interesting to say the least. We were also brought out to help sing a love song? Which basically meant we read a love poem with a lot of character. Naturally, the girls did a better job with this. Then after we were given wine with roses which somehow ended up tasting more like meat. Don't ask me how they did it, but they did. So we sipped on that while lounging around the rooms getting  a feel for what it was like to be Roman. I've learned that they had shitty beds, but everything else wasn't all that horrible. Unfortunately, we couldn't take any pictures.

So once we were done with that business, we made our way over to some other city. I was sleeping and don't pay much attention to where we are going, so I don't know the name of it. All I know is that we were going to see a castle in ruins, which was pretty awesome. We got to see some dungeons, climb way too many stairs, and get a great view of the city. I was a big fan.

these would be the creep stairs leading to the dungeon in which prisoners would be chained to the wall to drown when it rained.

This is the well at the bottom of the stairs. The light at the top is the sun shining outside.

View from the top.

Countryside

This was this pedestal at the top of a windy tower, so we do we all do? Stand on it of course.

Our last stop of the day was Tordesillas. This place is really most famous for being the home of Juana la Loca, one of Ferdinand and Isabella's daughter. She basically went nuts after her husband died and was kept in a prison of sorts here. It really wasn't anything too exciting. We wandered around a bit, heard the extended version of what I just told you, and looked at miniature buildings in a museum. Definitely my least favorite part of that excursion. And that pretty much concludes what happened on our Valladolid excursion. Stay tuned for the previous missing two weeks!