I MADE IT to the top!!

I never really thought I would have the opportunity to get there! It was too overwhelming for me to attempt on my own and everyone I know here either had already climbed it and didn’t care to repeat it, or just didn’t want to at all. So, I was very fortunate that my French friend and guide from my yoga class took me on! I was terrified that I couldn’t keep up. She’s younger and in super good shape and I’m older and in moderately good shape at best. It wasn’t a walk in the park. I’d been told that it would be relatively easy to find the way. Ha! Parts of the way seemed to follow a worn path, but much of the way was just choosing which rock to put my weight on to heist myself forward. Luckily, I was able to follow in Sylvie’s footsteps. But still…there were lots of rocks, some slippery, some unstable. How many times did I think about Sylvie having to dial 112 (Spanish 911) for an ambulance? Thank God that didn’t happen and both hips and both knees are still in tact!

Once we got to the top, the views were just incredible towards the sea, the rice fields, the farms and villages.

After having a quick lunch on the walls of the castle atop the hill, Sylvie asked if I wanted to go down a different way that was MORE challenging. Oh sure!

I gotta say the goats were one of the best parts.

Random weird thing that happened:

A package was delivered from Amazon to one the apartments in my complex (of 12 ). I know the owners and they haven’t been around much this year and I doubt they were having a package delivered here, so I checked it out. It was addressed to a woman’s name (not their name) and at a different address on my street. I thought about trying to deliver it myself, but the houses aren’t really numbered, and NO ONE is here anyway. I called Amazon. They said I would be contacted by a delivery service to pick it up. A few days later I got an email from the delivery service to verify my address for pick up. Days went by, then a couple of weeks went by. I tried to give the package to the Amazon guy who showed up with a package I’d actually ordered, but he said he couldn’t take it. So, I decided that whatever was in the package was now mine. I opened it, and this is the weird part, it was a bag of dry dog food. It isn’t the brand I normally buy, but it is specifically for dogs with urinary problems, which Cassie has and I always buy the urinary-specific kind. Strange, huh?