Malaga

This week dad has kept me so busy. Today we went downtown to check out Malaga since I had yet to see it. Malaga is an old port city so it is a little more drab and not nearly as attractive as the other places we went to visit. Lots of construction is going on so they seem to be making efforts to spruce it up. There was this one building that they were working on restoring that they had up on stilts basically. We were informed it was the first shopping plaza in the city.

I felt it was the equivalent to Marseille in France. Malaga is where Picasso grew up so we walked by his home and museum and ate some lunch two doors down outside. It was such a warm day out compared to how cold it had been up near the mountain. We went to the Alcazar, another Moorish castle in Malaga. This one wasn’t quite as extensive as the Alhambra but was still pretty awesome. The Muslims definitely knew how to build a sweet castle and were very technologically savvy. Like at the Alhambra they built this water system which was able to getting running water throughout the castle which was up high on a hill. Throughout the rooms and halls there were little irrigation drains that let water flow from place to place. It even went down along the railing of staircases!

Our hotel was not near downtown but I was able to get over to the beach to run which was really nice. Our shows didn’t open until Saturday this week which is just plain crazy. I had a two day work week! Our shows were wicked packed so I guess canceling those couple of shows helped us to have really good showing to the ones we had. In general, our Spanish crowds have been amazing. They get so into it and are cheering and clapping the whole time. It makes skating the same thing over and over again much better.