Day 1
We did Ben's walk. It was so interesting and confusing. The first things we saw were two arches. After them the walk sort of got confusing. We went up, then right, and then suddenly we were on a break off. In the humble of a jumble we came upon the cathedral it was so huge and pretty. We went up in the bell tower you could see forever. It even gave certain things to look at. Jasmin and I tried to find all of them. Then we went to the cathedral museum. I really liked that. My favorite thing in it was the miniature gold cathedral that holds the Eucharist during Easter, it was so pretty. The last thing on the walk was the arch that separated the “old city” and the “new town”. Inside it was a press museum. That was my favorite thing. Mom told us about how grandma used to do it. She also told us how they did it. It was so cool (in both ways, how they did it and the stuff in the room [I guess you could say it was cool in there too]). Then we went to the beach. At the beach Jasmin and I wave surfed until mom came in then we talked to her when she always comes in. Shortly after she had gone out of the water I went out because I was cold. Then Jasmin came out because she had nobody to play with. We wrote stuff on the sand about each other. After that we helped the boys finish their castle, Jasmin helped Lukas on the moat and I helped Ben on the crazy windy road. Jasmin found the same hermit crab as yesterday.
Day 2
We walked across the peninsula, it was very narrow. At the other side we saw a big building that said “Bahia de Cadiz”. Jasmin wanted to know if it was a shopping mall. We went in and it was. We continued our search for the plate. First we went up stairs and up there was a bookstore, a cafeteria, toy store, and a cinema. Jasmin found the English books! Hurrah for Jasmin! Jasmin and I each got a book. I got a book called “The Book of Tomorrow” and she got “Handle with Care”. Then we went down stairs took look for a plate, down there we found an electronic store and a large grocery store. There were a few plates, but they wert the ones we were looking for. We went back up stairs to eat lunch at the cafeteria. I got a sandwich with a sunny side-up egg, some bacon, chicken, three slices of bread (one on the top, on the bottom, and one in the middle),and some mayonnaise (of course). Mom had the exact same thing; Jasmin had bread with ham and cheese, Lukas had crocquettas, and Ben had penne pasta. After lunch we went to check out the cinema, we all wanted to see “Toy Story 3” except it was in Spanish and the cinema was closed because it was Saturday. When we walked home it was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, etc. windy. Then we went to the beach. It had no waves because the wind blew the waves the other direction. Then I went through a lot to build a fancy-patterned farm land. At first I tried building it in between us and the waves, but the waves kept coming up and destroying it. I repeated that multiple times. Then I tried digging a hole to the wet sand and make a farm land in there, but it was too curved and too small. Then I tried to gather water in a bucket and dump it on the sand so it would get wet and make it there, but the wet sand formed a shell and when I went to make a farm land the wet sand would get stuck in my rake to reveal dry sand underneath. Finally the waves went down a little bit so I was finally able to make it. After mom took my picture the waves got to it, and we left. Then after supper and ice cream we went to the beach.
Day 3
Today started off slow we stayed at home and played. We played on the computer. Then we went to the beach it was really yucky, the waves were really filled with seaweed and the open part after he waves was so yucky too, there were dead birds and stuff from the rocks. It was so nasty. So we went in and played monkey in the middle. Then we came to the beach. I found a really cool hermit crab. It was small but it wasn’t. Ben and Lukas found tons and we made a crab zoo. Jasmin made a hole that was right behind us. Then she made a channel, it took water from ours into hers then it drained water form hers then through the rock lined channel that had a few twist and turns and into a large hole that we let our hermit crabs go in to when we left.
Day 4
We went on Lukas' walk. Mine started right next to his, so we walked next to each other until mine broke off. It was a short walk and we saw a lot of stuff we saw on my walk. After lunch we went to an ice cream store mom had thought it was puny but it wasn’t so she thanked us for convincing her to go to it. When we got home we rested then we went to the beach. The beach was so clean unlike yesterday. Mom came in right after we came in. Then the boys left so we played monkey in the middle in the water. Then the boys came back in. They clung to mom. Ben came up underneath me and he freaked me out. So when mom went in, I stayed where I could touch. Then I went in and tried to convince mom to play monkey in the middle but it was too windy so we left. After supper we went crabbing. We met two kids. They helped us catch crabs. We caught twenty or more crabs. Then we walked to the other rock pier to let the crabs go. While we were doing it the boys watched the sunset. I was so bummed that I didn’t get to watch it.
Day 5
We went hermit crabbing. The boys found most of the hermit crabs. Jasmin and I went to look for crabs on the rock pier, but the crabs aren’t morning animals. We came back with none. We went crabbing again. This time we were successful and we got two big crabs (the man that gave them to us took off the pinchers). We also caught a lot of small ones. We missed the sunset again.
Day 6
We went on Jasmin’s walk. It was also our second last day. Jasmin’s was nice. We went by souvenir shops and tons of other things that were on other people’s walk. The last thing on the walk was the museum of Cadiz. We had lunch before we went in it. We all had mini pizzas. Inside the museum was everything: archeology, paintings, modern art, puppets etc. That was my favorite thing we did on Jasmin's walk. We got home around five so we didn’t go to the beach to swim. We ate supper went to the beach and caught tons of crabs. Then we all went swimming in our clothes!!!!! Then we (Jasmin and I) gave a fisherman and his wife our crabs and left the beach.
Day 7
We went crabbing. A fisherman gave us lines with hooks on them. We each caught one giant crab mine only had one pincher, but it was huge! We also caught tons of small crabs. The boys went hermit crabbing after they caught their crabs. They had tons of hermit crabs. I wish we had gotten the lines when we first came here instead of on our last day. We were leaving for Madrid the next day. We came back to the beach after lunch. Our beach was all sea weedy so we went to the other beach, this time we sat with other families. We met this one family from Canada; we talked to them for some time. I got buried and so did Jasmin, then we were all sandy. Then we went and packed everything, had dinner, and came back to the beach to walk along the water. After the sun set mom took pictures of us jumping. I had a wonderful time.
Day 8
Today we woke up really early and went to the train station. We took a train to Seville that one I got a major head ache! The one to Madrid we watched Inkheart, we found the English channel so we didn’t have to watch it in Spanish. When we got to Madrid we took a metro to the airport and we caught a bus to take us to our hotel. After we got settled in we went to find a mall. It took us a long time because we were supposed to take one street up but instead we went the other way so we went around a thing of buildings instead of going up the street. When we go there we went shopping and had supper at a Brazilian restaurant.
Epilogue (Day 9)
We woke up early, packed everything up, caught our bus, went through the airport, and got to our airplane. On the airplane I watched movies most of the time. When we landed in Canada I wanted to stay and visit everybody but we had to get to the next flight. In our gate to Los Angeles we met Michele who works for AirCanada. She gave us lollipops before the airplane. On that airplane I listened to songs. When we landed I wanted to get home as soon as possible. I was glad we didn’t have to wait long until dad came with the car. When I got into the car I instantly fell asleep. It didn’t take me long to fall asleep when we got home.
