So currently Bilbao and from what my host mom tells me, all over Spain the Spaniards are celebrating Carnaval. So I am not exactly sure what this festival derives from but being that its Spain I am sure it has to do with some sort of patronage to a Saint, as everything related to Catholicism here. But whatever it's derived from, in secular terms its basically Halloween. So the festivities are in different suburbs of Bilbao all through the month so even last weekend we rode the metro and saw people in all sorts of get ups. On Thursday night the girls and I all went to a costume party decked out in our usual party outfits but with awesome masks. Other students were in full costumes, just like Halloween, it was super awesome. Friday was another themes party and Saturday is supposedly the biggest of the celebrations with parades and special parties...thats when Laura and I plan on wearing costumes, too bad I didn't know prior to getting here, there is a whole bag of costume get ups in our linen closet at home.
Yesterday afternoon my abroad group went to visit the Puente Colgante, which is the oldest suspension bridge in the world and is located on the river, at the mouth of the sea, between the towns of Areeta and Portugalete. It's super tall to prevent the waves from the sea from hitting it, and we took an elevator and crossed it at the very top. There was a little woman who gave us the tour, all in Spanish of course but I caught the gist of everything. Some of the girls were scared because the footbridge was made of wood and it always rain is Bilbao and even snow recently...can you say erosion! It was super windy and wicked cold up there but being above the entire town was super beautiful and its always nice touring the historical parts of Bilbao.
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