okay so here's the rest.... we then went from madrid over to toledo, walked around in the pooring rain up in the mountains, then checked into our hostal... (note: diff b/t hostle and hostal= hostals are much smaller, but we got a single room for jonas he just had to share a bathroom, and a double room for annie and i and we had our own bathroom in our room... not bad.)then we went out to dinner at this really cool little arabic place that was a treasure to find, you know one of those hole-in-the-wall places that was so good and so fun! we sat at like this little table where the chairs were the same height as the tabletops (or if you were smart like me you could sit on a little pad on the floor) how fun! so then we went home and showered and got warm and the rain magically stopped so we went walking around the well lit, quaint little town til we'd walked the whole thing one and a half times and went to the hostal to study and to sleep. The next morning we packed our way down the big hill out to the car which we parked outside the city wall (and rode the bus up) we took pictures... it was an amazingly beautiful day... cold, but beautiful! Next we left our fun city behind, had a little map trouble, but were able to enter the city of Cordoba and visit the mesquita! this church (now a catholic church that is no longer in use) used to be a mosk. therefore it is an amazing mix of the christian west and the muslim east in one building you can have a look, i have pictures of the arabic arches in the same shot as the stained glass windows and the cross... incredible, especially while taking the humanities and western civ courses i am online, the very definition of "west"according to doctor babcock is the everchanging battle between the two muslim east and christian west... incredible. plus everyone who came into control felt the need to add on to the mosk due to the amount of the worshippers, so there are various additions and then there are the upward additions of the christians who needed to add light to the very dark traditional style of the muslim architecture. (might i add that even before it was a mosk, it was a different catholic church, which, when the arabics had control, was torn down and only its columns were kept in order to make the construction go faster... which indeed it did. This place was amazing and if you ever get a chance, i definitely reccomend going!!