"Chistmas" break, the good and the bad

This past weekend, I had the fortuity of hosting Ms. Pippa Baker-Rabe while she was on vacation in Spain. It is plausible that we slept more than anything, but that is besides the point.

Here we are pictured in the only Mosque in Granada paying homage to Allah.

Pippa happened to come during the coldest weekend we've had thus far, but the green tinge of life of the normally barren landscape of Granada made up for it.

Some moss with a building on it.

On Sunday night, some friends and I went out for a night of fine dining to celebrate my 21st.

Pre-dinner photo.

En route to the restaurant, it was snowing, and our driver Diego had to find his way there looking out of this windshield. The tacky blue light fixture hanging above the road is one of hundreds put up all over Granada to "usher in the Christmas spirit" and make any non-Christians feel excluded.

The restaurant's name was D'Cuadros, which is a failed attempt at fusing the Spanish and French languages.

Pippa was unintentionally excluded from our dinner conversations seeing as how we spoke almost exclusively in Spanish.

Enjoying some drinks at the bar while waiting for our table to be prepared.

Awkward "prom photo", my feable attempt at trying to make up for not going.

Some dishes from which we dined.

A mix of fried "Asian" dumplings and skewers.

Caesar Salad
Proof of the copious amount of snow that fell on the above mentioned night.