La Granja

As mentioned in my previous post, I went with my host family to a place outside of Segovia for the day on Saturday. La Granja is the first Bourbon palace and has beautiful grounds. It was so cold that day, but we bundled up and headed to the mountains. We saw the palace, and walked the gardens picking up pinecones and pretty twigs to decorate their Christmas tree. We tried waking up the bats to no avail. We walked into a small cave and climbed up a mini-waterfall. We almost got lost in the labyrinth and took many pictures of the fountains and of Ignacio and I getting eaten by a statue. After our nature walk we had lunch at a tavern nearby and were almost in a food coma by the time we got to the car. We stopped by a Home Depot-type store on the way back to pick up paint and got back around 5pm. All in all, ‘twas a very good day with the host family.