Picos y Tortitas

Another week has come and gone. . . I don´t quite understand how it goes so fast. But, such is life. Classes are continuing as normal. No Art History last lunes thanks to Carnaval, but other than that, normal. I forgot to mention last time, that despite our two week break, we once again have franceses. Last week it was 3 older boys (17 & 18) (one was kinda cute, but don´t tell Allen). This week we have 3 girls, haven´t had the chance to chat with em yet, but I´m sure there will be fun had. The most exciting thing from the weekdays had to be receiving Janine´s paquete. NEW CLOTHES!!!! What living out of a suitcase will do . . .
Anyways, on sábado we headed out to the Picos de Europa. These are the montañas that are south of Santander. Our natural border from the rest of Spain (we are a lil different up here). I can´t begin to describe how gorgeous it was. But, take my word ¡que increíble! Also, there was a nice coat of snow up there. This ended up being to our disadvantage as we weren´t able to actually hike down the mountain. (Not prepared and kinda dangerous). The views we did get we still impresionante. And there was a bit of hiking. With our unexpected free time, we visited the lil pueblo of Potes (biggest town in the Picos). It was preciosa. It was all old and cute and stuff. We also got to see a church from the 10th century. ¡Qué antiguo! It was cute and lil too.
On Sunday, I made tortitas (pancakes) for the fam. They seemed to quite enjoy them (as a dessert). Yum. . . no syrup but caramel sauce and chocolate sprinkles. I´m really starting to take to heart this whole cooking by sight thing. And cooking everything from scratch. . . o dear! 50s housewife here I come! But ya, went to Mass at another church here in Santander, Santa Lucia (which happens to be next to the biggest night scene here). I do love irony. Pretty church, but really it´s hard to find a non-pretty, non-old church around these parts. Spent the rest of the day studying and working on my presentation for Monday. Now that that´s done I get to look forward to Friday. ¡¡¡LAS FALLAS!!!