I have arrived!!

Today is my first day in Seville! After an 8 hour flight (thankfully with Kevin and Britt) from O'Hare to Madrid, a sprint through the Madrid airport and a 1 hour flight from Madrid to Seville I arrived at about 9:45 a.m. Seville time.  We had a very interesting experience trying to find a cab.  It was all old men and because of the amount of luggage we had they wanted to take us in 2 cars, and weren't very happy when we bypassed the cars in line to go to a van.  So 5 minutes in Spain and we're already making the Spaniards angry, hopefully it's uphill from here!!

We arrived at our hostel, Oasis Backpackers Hostel, and it's a really nice one all in all.  We couldn't check-in until noon so we took advantage of that time to walk around and explore a little.  Seville is NOTHING like what I had pictured in my head but it's really a beautiful city.  It's almost all cobblestone roads and everything is very close together but it is truly amazing.  There are orange trees lining practically every street.  We decided to have some coffee...which is actually espresso...and sat in a courtyard and talked until we could check in.  The streets were dead until 11:30 and then a lot of people seemed to come from church.

So now I'm sitting in my hostel with Britt and Kevin hoping to get a nap in before it gets too late because, let's be honest, no one ever sleeps well on a plane and right now jet lag wants to be my best friend!

Enjoy the few pictures I took quickly to give you guys an idea of what it's like:

 This is part of a huge cathedral in Seville that was once the tallest building in the world.

 I have no idea what this building is...but it was by the cathedral :-)  The cathedral was in a big square, the side streets are a lot tinier than this!

 Fountain right outside the cathedral

 This is what a lot of the apartments look like, the architecture here is really beautiful.

An orange tree by another part of the cathedral, but you're not allowed to eat the oranges because they're apparently very bitter which is sad.