Hola Playa!

I went to the beach with Isabel this weekend! It was a great deal because Isabel wanted to go and Katherine and I got to go for free. We went to Puerta de Santa Maria to an apartment on the beach that Isabel's friend owns. We left Friday morning and when we got to the apartment it smelled rank. Something had tripped the circuit and since no one had been there all winter, the power had been off for an unknown amount of weeks. There was an impressive quantity of fish and meat products in the freezer and when we opened the freezer, the smell almost make us get sick. I ran bags of rotten fish downstairs to the trash as fast as I could.
After that adventure we went down to the beach. It was too windy and the sand was blowing everywhere. We gave up and moved to another part of the beach that is protected from the wind by a wall of rocks. Everyone at the whole beach was in this one spot. We had bocadillas and got in the water a little bit but it was mostly really cold. I got sunburned on the backs of my legs and knees. There's always one spot that I miss with the sunscreen. After the beach, we went to a port to see some boats and to a store "where the put everything cheaply". I bought a necklace and Isabel bought a shirt. Isabel had packed very carefully and brought all the food with us. We had dinner and she even brought flan for dessert.
Saturday Katherine came on a train and we went into town to get her then to the beach. This time I wore all my clothes to avoid further irritation of the sunburn. I read a lot of a Spanish novel for my literature class, but I still have two essays to write.
After the beach, Katherine and I took a boat to Cadiz. Cadiz is a city on a very small peninsula at the bottom of Spain. The boat to Cadiz costs 2 Euro and took thirty minutes. The first hour in Cadiz we spent not knowing where we were and wandering through uninteresting streets. We did go into two cathedrals. Eventually we found a place where stores were opened. We went in a gift shop and then to 100 Montaditos, where we got a snack of a tiny sandwich. [They really are pequenito.] I was scared that we would not be able to find the boat so we left to go find it and arrived 40 minutes early. So we walked back to a plaza, took a few pictures, and took the boat back to Puerta Santa Maria, where Isabel picked us up. Katherine and I practiced our Spanish the whole time. In fact, I haven't spoken English this whole weekend, aside from writing things online.
Today it was cloudy, so we decided to come home because the beach would be too cold. Katherine and I walked down the beach to a place where there is an expanse of rocks covered by water only at high tide. It was fantastic.
This was a good weekend.