Costa Del Sol

So here we are nearly two months into our great adventure in Europe. And oh what an adventure we are having! This week was pretty mellow. We had the missionaries over for cinnamon rolls and peanut butter sandwiches. I love taking care of the missionaries and they just about passed out when I brought out the root-beer! We are helping them to find investigators and so far all they have is a full belly, but I hope that helps at least a little bit! We also booked all of our hostels for our big trip at the end of July. For those of you who don´t know, Tyler and I are going to tour around Europe for 20 days before we come back to the states. We are both really excited about the trip and are really excited at the amazing deals we got on all of our hostels!
This weekend we decided to take a beach vacation and relax. Well...we got exactly what we hoped for with a few minor gliches. The first of which is that we nearly missed our train! We got stuck in rush hour traffic in the early morning and literally had to run from metro station to metro station to make it on time. Second gliche...we forgot our camera!! No pictures for this weekend! But you can Google the city we stayed in and photo shop our pictures in for sure! Because we were there!
We arrived in Malaga, a city in the South of Spain on the Costa del Sol at about 11:30 on Friday morning. Then we took a smaller train to a city just outside Malaga called Fuengirola. It was a beautiful little beach town and we were planning to hit the beach for two days and then explore Malaga on Sunday. When we arrived at our hostel, we were impressed with how nice it was. There was air conditioning, cable TV, and a small refridgerator in every room! However, the problems began at check-in. For some reason the hostel´s card machine wouldn´t read Tyler´s credit card and we were not able to pay for our hostel for two nights. We tried EVERYTHING. We even went to the hostel´s bank and tried to pay with the card there, but it wouldn´t work. We were starting to get a little worried and found another hostel. We hoped the card would work there because we only brought one credit card and 50 Euros in cash. It was 40€ a night for us to stay in either of the two hostels. So after a 4:00am (Utah time) call to Tyler´s awesome parents, we found out the credit card which we had used to book our 10 hostels for our big trip was frozen because Zions was trying to ¨take care of us¨ Yeah, thanks for that. So we were able to pay in cash for one hostel one night and pay with Scott´s credit card for the other hostel the other night. Which left us with 10 Euros for three days of eating and entertainment. Luckily the beach is free and I packed a lot of sandwiches and snacks for us to have and even though we were starving on Sunday night when we got home, we survived and it was a blast. Fuengirola was an amazing city and the beach was awesome! There weren´t ¨big waves¨ which is Tyler´s response to how the beach was, but the water was refreshing and we both got a lot of sun. We love the Spanish riviera! The worst part of the whole trip would have to be our second hostel. Not because it was unclean or anything but because it was MURDEROUSLY hot inside. I don´t think I slept a full hour the whole night. On Sunday, we slept in, read books, and went home. It is nice to have lazy vacations every once in awhile...
Last night we watched the Eurocup final and I am happy to say SPAIN WON! I don´t even like soccer! It was exciting to be in Spain for the eurocup though and to see how excited people were to watch the game. Except a small part of me was hoping they would lose because when they won the semi-finals the people were out all night shooting fireworks and honking horns. Last night was action times ten of that! Not the best night sleep, but it was good enough! Better than Hostel Sante Fe for sure!
Well that is it for this week. We sure love all the emails and updates! Hope you all have a great fourth of July and we sure wish we could have gone to Sun Valley with the Rice Fam! We miss you guys!