I got up early this morning because I wanted to see the sunrise. It was worth it: it was one of the most beautiful sunrises I've seen. There were a lot of clouds, and the sun, rising above the shadowed shape of the castle, lighted them and turned them into orange, pink, red and yellow. It was... Like a gigantic painting in the sky.
Later, I went downstairs to the kitchen and I had breakfast: milk and a piece of toast. After that, I went to the terrace to see how my praying mantises were.
When my parents woke up, we started to prepare our trip to London. I was very excited: I'm really looking forward to go to London! I want to see the Big Ben, the Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, the British Museum... And all this things our English teacher Antonia has told us about.
At twelve o'clock, we took the car and went to the Alpujarra. We had been invited to a country house for lunch.
It was in the middle of nowhere, lost in a mountain. There were flowers all around, and also a lot of insects. The adults started to prepare lunch. Meanwhile, a girl showed my sister and me the surroundings of the cottage; they owned a pretty big part of the mountain!
The girl led us through meadows, bushes and holes I didn't believe we could pass through, and we ended up with a lot of scratches.
She also took us to an abandoned mine, and we climbed a little mountain and look at the wonderful views.
Then we heard a shout over all the sounds of the country: “Come on ! The lunch's ready!”
When we arrived at the cottage, all the people were already sat around the table. There were a lot of things to eat: “rabo de toro”, Spanish omelet, Russian salad, pasties, pork, beef... And nearly twenty strangers gathered around the table making short work of all. I took a piece of omelet and went quickly outside.
After lunch, most of the adults had a nap, and I had to look after all the kids they had brought with them. I can't bare children, so I left them eating plants and went for a walk.
When the adults woke up, they scolded me for leaving the kids alone and after a short talk we went on an excursion together. We went again to the mine, and the owner of the land told us that, some time ago, people used to extract iron from there, but it closed after some years because it wasn't profitable enough.
We returned to the cottage, where their three dogs welcomed us barking. We had a snack inside and later I asked my father to go with me to a beautiful meadow I had discovered.
It was late afternoon, and the last sun's rays lighted up the tall blades of grass. There were grasshoppers, frogs and birds singing everywhere, and a lot of small insects flying and buzzing around. I sat on the grass and started to examine all the insects I found, describing them to my father. Nature never seems to be in a hurry; and neither we were.
But it was getting dark, and it was time to leave: we said goodbye to the people in the cottage and drove back to our house.
It was night when we arrived, so we prepared dinner (sandwiches, as always) and saw a Simpson's episode. After dinner, I chatted online and read for a while and, finally, I went to bed.
What a beautiful, busy day!
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