Seville by Mia

This morning we woke up way too early for a Saturday morning to go to Seville. When we got there it was extremely hot out, but it always is here in Spain. We parked a bit of a walk away from the cathedral, and walked through the maze of cute alleys until we found it. The Seville cathedral is the biggest cathedral in Europe and it is pretty darn big. It is surrounded by a plaza with a few fountains and lots of horses pulling carriages. On one side of the plaza is a stone wall which is the Alcazar. We entered the cathedral from the side and walked around it, stopping at the treasury and the sacristy, before sitting in the pews in the middle of the church. The pews faced the choir and right across from the choir was supposed to be a huge altar, but it was being restored so there was just a big picture of it hung on the scaffolding. The picture was really cool looking, but I really wish we could have seen the real thing! I hate when they are restoring cool things, because we can't see them.

We were really tired because it was really hot in the cathedral and we hadn't slept very much the last night, so it was not as fun as it should have been to look at the cathedral. We saw the biggest pearl in the world that was the torso of a little cherub on the crown of the Virgin Mary, and it was about as long as my thumb and twice as wide. It was a really weird shape; the perfect shape for the torso and the tops of the legs of the cherub because it splits at the bottom. The rest of the crown was covered with hundreds of diamonds, heaps of emeralds and lots of rubies and others precious stones. The crown it's self was made of gold. There was a much smaller crown next to it that was decorated just as richly, and we thought it was for baby Jesus. After a few hours we were pretty done with the cathedral, and we walked up to the top of the bell tower before leaving.

After the cathedral, we walked around the neighborhood, found a plaza to have some food in, and then got some really good ice cream. While we ate our ice cream Sarah got a ruffled pink flamenco dress. It was very pink; pink with black dots, not black with pink ones. She was really excited, though despite its apparent hideousness. After that we walked around a little bit more until we were about to fall on our faces, so we went back to the car and last.