A little trip to Sima de las Cottorras.
            On a Saturday after a sleepover (after watching the new Iron Man 3) with Lorena, we set off with Memo (our parent's Spanish teacher) and his boyfriend Arturo to go to the "Chasm of the Parrots." The drive felt longer than it was on the way down. We finally got out of the car to be greeted by flies that zoomed into our car before we figured out what was going on. The weird thing was, it seemed that the only places that had a lot of flies, were places that had a roof. Outside, there was barely a hint that the place was fly-infested. To see the lookout over the chasm, you walked a short distance and it seemed as though out of nowhere, there it was: a very deep and large circular-ish hole with lots of green trees on the bottom.
         After getting settled, we took a walk around the edge of the chasm. As we walked we saw groups of parrots fly out of and into the hole; the parrots were little and bright green with golden undersides. They were swift and fancy and reminded me at one point of the flying keys from Harry Potter.
         Over the course of the one-night trip, we played many games of Spit (some call it Speed). At dinner, we ordered too much food and Oscar and I each ate too much of something hot, in this instance it was a Jalapeño. After the initial burning of the spicy pepper, my lips burned really bad so I ate some plain lettuce which didn't help as much as I hoped it would, and in the end got a magnificent tip from Arturo: eat sugar. I put some sugar in my hand and after a couple of pinches of sugar, it cleared up!! That is really an awesome solution, not only cause it takes the burn away but it also tastes great!!!!
         Back at our cabin, we gathered around a fire we built in the pit and roasted marshmallows for S'mores that tasted very different in part because of the lack of graham crackers and in part due to the fact that the marshmallows were half yellow and half pink and had a different flavor.