SPAIN PICTURES II

Here Ry and Aubs in a train tour around the city of Toledo. It looks like they loved it :)

The following pictures are different views of the city.

To the right the Alcazar, to the left the tower of the Cathedral.

To the right the Cathedral again.

A better view of the Alcazar.

One of the bridges that take you to the other side of the old part of Toledo.

Here we are with my great friend Nely and her husband Carlos. They are the parents of the cute baby in past posts named David.

Here we are with my friend Aurora (whom with I worked in Spain) and her baby with Aubrey's age named David as well. Aurora cracked me while working with her. She was a life saver too!

This is the main entrance to my uncle's castle in a little town of Toledo called: Ajofrín. I forgot to take a picture of it so I am showing the painting instead.

Here Ryan, Moisés and my uncle shooting bow and arrow in the castle's patio.

Aubrey with great uncle José Luís. He is so loving and fun!

Here Aubs with my aunt Mayte. Did I ever mentioned that I only have 1 uncle, 1 aunt and 1 cousin? Yes! These are it!

Aubs with great cousin Maite.

And these are the collectables of my uncle's castle. A guillotin and other things used way back then to kill and punish people.

The West wing of the castle. The family warriors symbols and names from our heritage in Spain.

Entrance to the living room.

And the living room full of antique objects and specifically made for family to visit.

My uncle also has a great collection of swords.

A view of the upstairs where the bedrooms are located.

A picture from the balcony of the master bedroom. So cozy!

ANd...believe it or not I did take ONE picture of my sister's wedding. How bad I forgot to take more! We were having so much fun and so busy eating and visiting... :)

Here is my best friend Yashira holding Aubrey

A mystic look into one of the streets around town.

More Toledo's views of the Jewish streets

Back to the Cristian part of town where my private music school is.

And that is my Dad's car. To the left my house Peach/gray color.

That is the original color of the house and since it is a patrimonial city you are not allowed to change anything about the outside arquitecture to not ruin the history and original look. So, no one is allowed to paint their house different than what it was couple thousand of years ago.

The tower of the cathedral which you can view it from my house balconies.

And the little door by where I am hanging is our house cave. Not all houses have a cave but we do and it is from the 13th century (XIII A.C.) Inside the cave it has a wheel. Pretty cool, eh?

And a ramdom picture of Yashira, me and my sis Ester. I think this one we took in my sister's bachelorete party. So much fun!

Soon to come picture of Spain III !

SPAIN PICTURES I

Here we are me, Aubrey, my uncle José Luís, Ryan and my cousin Mayte. We were at Aubrey's 1st B-Day Party at my sister's new house.

This is my brother Moisés (16). He cracks me up :)

From right to left: David (Raquel's boyfriend), Raquel (20), Behind is Dámaris (26, the bride), me chuckling some good cake and Aubs.

This is my cousin and my sister Ester (15).

This is Raquel playing for Aubrey as her B-day gift to her. It was an amazing piece. This is, by the way, the one sister that is a professional piano player (she's won many competitions and given many concerts...she is sooo gifted!)

Here are Ryan, Aubs and my best friend Yashira. She's a gem! I love her so much :)

Me and Ryan wondering around the streets of Toledo where I grew up from 14 to 21 yrs old.

Here we are at a Arabian food restaurant. Sooooo GOOD! Ryan is holding the smocking pipe...kinda fun machine to look at. But...how on the world does that thing work?!?

Yummy pig legs and other meats, cheeses (like jerky...kind of)

This is the main Toledo's square called Zocodover. Many buses and other important festivities happen around here. Also, the coolest clothing and souvenir stores are around here as well. My all time ever favorite clothing sotre found by this square is Zara (check it out http://www.zara.com/)

My neigbour's entrance to their house. Pretty narrow as you can see. (this is really totally normal to me but Ryan thought it was beyond crazy that had to have this picture).

This is a street by my house called "Calle las Tornerías" also known as the "fish streets" since fresh fish and other produces are sold here from 7am to 1 pm.

More narrow streets around. And by the way this is the Christian part of the city (not to mention that Toledo is the city that had 3 religions and cultures living together for 1,000 years in peace (christian, jewish and musulm). My family lives in the Christian part of it (their house is in the street that connects the Alcazar and the cathedral). Pretty cool now that I think about it.

This street is called: "The devil's street" and next to it there is a street called: "Hell Street" no joke...really. I guess famous streets to do night tours for some fun halloween deal???

The devil's street view. Crazy step stairs.

And here is my sweet little baby with grandma.

This is a little view of the Alcazar. A military fort which now holds one of the biggest libraries in Spain (on the very top floor). 

Here is the restaurant we went to have a nice romantic dinner. From right to left: Ryan, me, my sister Dámaris and now her husband Lamber. This is half suspended in the air and half based on a cool looking rock in the mountains. You can see the best view of the city at night with all the lights shining the cool irregular streets. The food....exquisite! Also found out that the king of Spain likes to often dine in this restaurant. (no wonder why it was so expensive! :)

This is the statue of Ceervantes. The author of "Don Quijote De La Mancha". It is by a museum near my house too. Me and Ryan read this book in one of our Spanish classes so thought that we should get a picture of it since Ceervantes in a native of Castilla-La Mancha Region (where Toledo is part of).