¡Al Cristo!

No, I haven't somehow dropped all my morals and become religious, we just "took a walk" up to the statue of Jesus that overlooks Oviedo today.  It's on top of a mountain that has an amazing 360-degree view, so it was more like a hike (a hike for me, someone who doesn't hike).  It took a bit less than 2 hours to get up, we didn't stop too much.  We stopped at a couple of ancient churches, but after that it got a lot more difficult to walk.  I am really out of shape and found it very difficult, but I made it!  Definitely worth the effort, though I'm not sure if I'd do it again.

The little white statue on the mountain is where we're headed - and this picture isn't even from our lowest point!

One of two really old churches that we saw on the way up

I did it!!!

Oviedo

Oviedo + Clouds + Mountains

Oviedo has been sunny for almost a week now.  I heard that the good weather will end, but I am trying to enjoy it as much as possible, by climbing mountains, etc.  El Cristo knows it won't last.  I'm happy I did the walk, now every time I look up and see the statue I won't feel that pang of guilt that I haven't gone up yet.

In other news, I'm not sure if I ever mentioned on the blog, but I did change it on the google map that I linked on the side of my blog, but I finalized my plans for Semana Santa (Spring Break)!  Mary and I are going to Paris and Lisbon!!  We will be leaving Sunday morning for Paris, then flying from Paris to Lisbon Tuesday afternoon until Saturday afternoon.  The nice thing about this trip is that we are flying in and out of Oviedo, which is so much better than trying to fly out of Santander or Madrid - the price to fly with Iberia added up to the same as with ryanair/budget airlines (that don't fly into Lisbon and fly into an airport 1.5 hours away from Paris).  This week we finally booked our hostel in Lisbon, so we are all set to go, except for planning out our sight-seeing.  I'm so excited!  Now to just figure out to do with the long weekend at the end of April... But I'm so happy we've figured everything out for this trip, for the most part.

*Besos*