A Visit to Cinderella's Castle in Segovia

 We went to Segovia today! It is a city in Spain to the north of Toledo.

 On our way, we stopped by this cool place, "Como". I got a bottle of water and a croissant. This was my second time there. We stopped here last Friday, on our way to San Lorenzo del Escorial. I just think it's so cute and nice.

 We got to see snow up on the mountains! It is so pretty. It was so nice to see snow again. I kind of missed it.

 We made our way up to the castle, called El Alcázar, meaning fortress in Arabic.

 This castle is what inspired Cinderella's castle of Disney. We went inside and got a tour of many rooms inside. I love the ceilings! They are so intricately adorned with beautiful colors.

 We also got to go up to the top of the tower. There are one hundred ninety-two steps! We got lots of fun pictures up there, and then we walked back down the super cool spiral staircase.

 Then, we walked to the famous aqueduct of Segovia. It is incredibly huge and amazing! It was built around the first century!

 This is the beautiful Gothic-style cathedral of Segovia. 

 This is the roman aqueduct! There is no cement or any type of glue used to hold it together. I don't know how that works. The stones are just held together by gravity?! Crazy! 

 We had lunch next! And it was delicious. We had bread, pasta with cheese, tomato sauce, and chorizo, rotisserie chicken with french fries, and ponche segoviano, which is a traditional cake from Segovia that is layered with almond cake and sweet almond cream. Not many of the students liked it, but I loved it. I ate half of Gleida's piece and I would love to learn how to make it.

 During our free time, Maggie and I walked around and I bought some postcards and some awesome playing cards. You may know that I collect playing cards. It's been kind of hard collecting them here, because I discovered that Spanish playing cards are different than US playing cards. Spanish playing cards don't have Ace, Jack, King, and Queen. I learned this when I bought a pack in Salamanca. But, I found some normal playing cards in Segovia and they rock!

 Then, we rode the bus back to Toledo! When we got back to Toledo, I captured a photo of this beautiful sky.

 Today was simply incredible. I would love to go back to Segovia someday and explore even more. It is such a neat little city. 

 Kthnxbai!