Toledo - one day trip

Toledo is the original capital of Spain and we went there yesterday for the day, which we rode a bus too. The city is TINY, it is so petite with so much personality and sponk with it. I LOVED it and it is a very religious city also with very mixed religious history and arcitecture which made it even more interesting since my theme for my portfolio is spirtuality. After we visited a couple of places in the town we were allowed to go off in small groups and do what ever we wanted which was fun. Clark, Brandon, Avery and I got some ice cream and sat for a little bit becasue the story ppl wouldnt let us in. Anyways then we went and looked at the knifes, swords, and guns they had made bc they are known for there metal work there. This is the city that made all of the swords and metal stuff for lord of the rings and many other movies by the way.  The store ppl were kinda rude to us also, but i bought a cute little bangle bracelet at this one store for 4 euros which was a good deal. But before all of that we got to look at the HUGE cathedral but it was closed so we couldnt go inside so we went to a smaller one that had a famous painting in it by some painter i can't remember his name at the moment but it was really beautiful. Then we visited an old sinagog idk how to spell to save my life its like a jewish temple, that was also cool. We went to this AMAZING place for lunch it was sooo good. The way they eat here is very different they one stay up late and dont get going until like 9 or 10 in the morning which makes since, but have like no breakfast a HUGE lunch at like 2 then a small dinner at like 9 to 10. Then the smaller cities like are deserted during siesta time i took a long one today. We got back to our hotel around 9 30 and called it a day becasue we came to Granada today. We took a train that was about 4 hours i think i read again bc i couldnt sleep but no one really did besides avery who can sleep on any type of transportation vehicle. But it is a really cue city and they have MEXICAN FOOD, it wasn't like tex mex tho it was different but it was still good. then we came back and had a siesta a really good one i think i slept for 3 hrs. then we had pizza here at the hotel and showed tino (the national geo photographer) who came in today and we showed him are pictures and he asked us about them and some other stuff he is really sweet and has a really great personality to be with kids our age. well it is super late here and i need to wake up so i will try and put some pics up today this is my first day to have internet on my computer please forgive me for not being able to inform yall sooner about the trip. tell you more later.

Shelby