Feliz cumpleaños a mí

Today is my birthday! I am 22 today. This is definately not as fun as turning 21, but I can´t complain too much. Tonight I am having two friends over for a special birthday dinner, then we are going out. I am super excited. Hopefully I will meet my future Spanish husband.

Today I went on another excursion with my group. First, we went to La Cueva del Castillo, which has this ancient cave paintings on the walls. It was so cool. This is La Cueva del Castillo: as you can tell, absolutely amazing. All these crazy stalagtimes, stalagmites, columns and rock formations. It was beautiful, and I think its so cool to stand in the same place that our ancestors stood thousands and thousands of years ago, and to see their artwork. It´s hard to believe that something can last for so long. I´ve always wondered how to make my mark on the world, and how long it will last after I am gone. So, basically, it would be a good idea to paint some junk in a cave, because that will last for milleniums!

Next we went to the Altamira museum. The Altamira Cave is a more famous cave with really amazing paintings in them. The caves themselves aren´t open to visitors because of the deterioration of the paintings, but the caves are recreated in the musuem. It was interesting, but not nearly as cool as seeing the actual paintings in Castillo, although I think the paintings in Altamira are gorgeous, in an ancient, simple way.

This is one of the bisontes (bison) from Altamira. Weird as it may seems, if I ever get a tattoo I would want it to be a recreation of one of the cave paintings in Altamira. This one is my favorite. Don´t worry mom and dad, I won´t come back with a bison tattoo, and tattoos can´t be that bad if Emilee has one, right?

After the visit through a musuem we went to a work shop on ancient cro-magnum hunting methods. It was really interesting, especially we got to throw spears at this big deer target. They actually use this other stick tool as a lever to chuck the spear harder, so it was kinda complicated. AKA, I sucked at it. I mananged to launch it about 5 feet. It was okay though, because no one hit el ciervo (the deer). The guy teaching us told us that if we were cro-magnum people, we would all be stuck eating setas (mushrooms). Good thing I live in the 21st century. I hate mushrooms.