Sevilla

Last night, after feasting on tapas and Spanish vermuth, jessica and i arrived at the fairgrounds and watched, along side hundreds of thousands of Sevillanos (and one or two tourists) the Alumbrao. The lighting of the huge gates that marks the initiation of the Feria de Abril, the biggest festival in spain.

It was amazing. I am too distracted to write about it right now, so get the details on Jessica´s blog.

I will add one thing though. We went to the public caseta, because, despite my efforts, we have not succeeded in getting an invitation to any of the private casetas. We ordered what we thought to be large 20oz plastic cup of cerveza con limon (beer with lemon fanta), which has come to be a favorite drink of mine here in spain. However, turns out that what we each actually ended up with was a gigantic cup full of sherry mixed with lemon fanta. Apparently, the big drink here is sherry with sprite (lemon fanta is a major no no), and one large cup is divided among a group of people in many smaller cups. This we did not know. So we each ended up with a gigantic portion of sickly sweet alcohol, which we delicately dispensed into our own tiny plastic cups and sipped slowly until about 3 in the morning.