Day 1
After settling in we went to the beach. The waves weren’t as huge as they were in the Pacific Ocean and it was much warmer. The coldness felt the same because I wasn’t wearing a rash guard. After I got too cold I went out and sunbathed. Then I went back in the water but I was alone because everyone was packing up.
Day2
We went to the Old town and went to a camera thing that we didn’t get to do in Seville, it was a good thing that there was one here too. We got to see all of Cadiz and she (the girl giving us the presentation) had a piece of paper and she put on the circular screen in an upside-down V and make boats and people go over it and she lied it down flat and picked up the people with it. When we were walking to the camera we walked through “Dino Land” and saw the last remaining dinosaurs of the world! We also walked past this huge tree called a ficus and we climbed all over the roots. We also watched the sun set on the beach. It was so beautiful and pretty. The ocean was indigo, the sky was really pink around the sun, and the sun was a really pretty orange. It was almost like the sun had drowned or the sun got swallowed by the ocean.
Day 3
We went to the place where we watched the sun set to see if the castle was opened, but it wasn’t so went and climbed on the rocks. There were holes in the rocks any size that you could think of when we were climbing down a man told us in Spanish that it was slippery so we took caution. We walked out on to the slippery rocks and slowly watched the tide come in. When it was time to leave I was heading toward the stairs and I slipped and got green stuff all over my back and my butt. Next, we went to the beach we all rode the waves and jumped them. Jasmin picked me up out of the water because she wanted me to come with her and then she dropped me. She did this several times before mom told her to stop. After the beach we went home, took showers and changed to go out and watch the soccer game. We found a restaurant that was called Hollywood and it was an American restaurant in Cadiz! The soccer game was so exciting because it was the FIFA cup final and Spain had won!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We never got to sleep that night.
Day 4
We got to go to England! It was so cool. We went on one of Hercules’s pillars. There were apes on it. We walked past the apes den on the way to St. Michael’s Cave and dad got a few pictures of us and the apes. One ape stepped on my hand. In St. Michael’s Cave there were stalagmites and stalactites there were some that had joined together and made columns. There was this one stalagmite that had fallen apart over the years of rain. In side there were rings according to the different years and the rain. When we were exiting we noticed that there were baby or small stalagmites and stalactites. When we went to the castle there was an ape sitting on the wall and the people put things up so apes wouldn’t sit on the wall. When we went inside the castle was all stairs up and none of us wanted to climb except Lukas. So he and daddy went up and mom and Ben waited at the bottom Jasmin and I went outside and she took a picture of me putting bunny ears on the ape. It didn’t look so happy. After we left the pillar we were walking back to the bus stop when we saw a SUBWAY® and we got supper there. We also met a Canadian girl there, her name was Agatha. We ate the SUBWAY® sandwiches on the bus ride home.
Day 5
We woke up and went to the low tide it was so cool because we could walk out really far and all the rocks were exposed. I got tons of shells; I got so many that I couldn’t even hold all of them so I had to leave some behind. Dad suggested that we should bring a bucket next time we go to low tide. Then we went to the harbor to take a boat to El Puerto de Santa Maria. When we got to the winery it ended up to be closed so dad led us to another one that was opened later but that one was also closed. Then we went to find a SuperSol (a grocery store in Spain). No matter how much we followed the signs we never found a SuperSol. Jasmin suggested that if they meant to put a SuperSol they would put it there. So we just took the boat back home. On the boat there were tons of waves so every time the boat went down everybody cheered. We still had time to go to the beach so we went and we brought our torpedoes with us. Jasmin and I played with it the hard way. We threw it in to the just about to crash wave and we had to dive into the wave to get it. While we jumped into the wave, it crashed and the torpedo went with it so it got washed up on shore. By the time we got to it, it had come apart into a football and a long foam stick. We usually couldn’t find the foam stick because it blended in with the bubbles. We would repeat this over and over and over again and sometimes we through it too early or too late the first time Jasmin brought it up she had gone two times in a row and both times I had burst out laughing and then a wave would come and crash on me and carry me to shore.
Day 6
We went back to El Puerto de Santa Maria and we went to the winery. It was a good thing that it was open. We went inside of it I was expecting a little house with wine inside of it with wine you could that you could taste but instead it was almost like the back yard of a house. There was a front desk and wine cellars a gift shop and even a restaurant! It was huge. I couldn’t even believe that this was actually it. I thought I was in some place magical. It looked like it was fake and someone just painted it. It was so beautiful. I liked how the wine cellar smelled. It smelled so nice like wine, it smelled sweet not bitter. I never knew that the wine could smell so sweet. I did not want to leave the cellar. When we went to the restaurant to taste the wine, mom or dad let me try there sweet Sherry. Sherry is a really sweet type of wine it tastes like maple syrup. We got juice instead of wine because we are kids. They had chips and olives to go with the wine. We had tons of chips and olives we almost finished off a whole dish of chips (with the help of other people). They had stuff to make the wine and all the tools they had used back then. After the winery we went to the castle we walked by it on the way to the harbor. This time we went in it. While we were waiting for the English tour to start mom went out and bought us giant chocolate chip cookies. Inside there was this little room that was a little bigger than a statue case. Ben had stood in it and yelled “Hello!” It was called a mihrab. There was this one room that was gated off like rooms at cathedrals and if you looked the key hole you could see a perfect view of Mary. Outside was a well and outside was also a prison but it wasn’t like an area that was gated in like a jail you would see today, because the well was actually the jail. They would throw the people in the well, usually you would break a bone or two and if you were lucky you wouldn’t and you would have a hard time getting out, you would probably die in there because they didn’t give you any food. Upstairs is wear Christopher Columbus used to live but now all what they have up there is a pretty view. After the castle we went back to our harbor on the boat. When we got out of the harbor and on to dry land we split up. The boys went to the beach while the girls went to get new bikinis. It took us along time to find bikinis. When we found stores they were usually adult stores and Jasmin didn’t like the bathing suits there. When we came along kid stores they were all closed. At last we found a store with both kids and adult bathing suits. I got one with army butterflies and Jasmin got a reversible light purple and dark purple. When we got home I wanted to show my bathing suit to dad because it was his last day.
Day 7
We went to low tide again but this time with mom because dad left yesterday. We went on this pier made out of rocks and there were tons of crabs. I brought a bucket for the shells and a guy came by and dropped a crab in there. It was huge but not as huge as the “Monster Crabs” I named him “Crabby” after a while I caught a baby crab that I named “Little crab” he was much punier than Crabby. On the way back to mom, we went past a rock I named “Slippery rock” I warned everybody to stay off then Jasmin pointed out a crab and you had to go on Slippery rock to get it, so I went on it being careful that I didn’t slip and I kneeled down reached out my hand to get the crab, then all of a sudden my legs came out from behind me and I slipped banging my knee on the rock slightly hanging over me and hitting the top of my foot on the bottom of the rock scattering a few shells and I think the shock had killed Crabby. When I got up my knee was oosing blood, so walked over to mom to show her my knee. Then we went to the tide pools and a man had caught site of my bucket and came over with a fish in his net. He wanted to give it to me and I wanted to show him Little crab but he kept yelling “agua, agua!” so when I put some water in trying not to kill Little crab. Then he started yelling “mas, mas, agua, mas!” so I put enough water for the fish. Then I found baby crab and he wasn’t dead! Then the guy came by again with two more fishes and a monster crab! When it was time to go Jasmin had stepped on a sharp rock and her foot started bleeding and it looked like somebody had died in the water. I gave all my sea creatures to a little girl who had baby shrimp in her bucket. She was surprised when she saw everything I had given her. Then we went out to a grocery store and we got pizza, cereal, juice, fruit, and soup. Then we went to a bakery and mom got bread for lunch and she got us donuts! After lunch we went back to the beach to play in the waves. I brought the torpedo out we never played with it so I ended up holding it the whole time. Instead Jasmin and I hung out and watched the boys get crashed. Then I got a head ache and I went in and sun bathed. It was a really short time at the beach.
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