HERE'S A RITIN FRUM
FOR OCTOBER & NOVEMBER 2000
FOR OCTOBER & NOVEMBER 2000
Hi, evrybudy! This is Old Bear bak frum my trip to Spain and ritin 2 u agin. We shure had a gud tyme but I am shure glad 2 B bak home.
My man helped me du sumpn difurnt with my ritin this time. He tuk a hole lot of pitchers with his ditchital kamra and I wanted to show you as many as I culd. Sew he wurked real hard 2 make it sew wear it says to click on a pitcher and U du then U will get 2 see a slyde showin of sum of them. Wen U get tyred of seeing the pitchers U jist click on the Back place to get back to my story. Course, if you don't want 2 C all the pitchers, then jist don't click wear it says click.
Here is the slide show my man made of sunrise pitchers he tuk frum the balcony of our hotel dining room. It wus about 8 in the morning when the sun cum up over the Mediterranean Sea. It shure wus purty.
We started our trip by flyin frum Dallas 2 a reel big airport in NY kalled JFK. We walked and walked and walked until we got 2 wear we would get on another big airplayne kalled an Air Bus. Here's a pitcher of it.
Sumpn lyke 300 peples got on this big airyplayne and it shure wus crowded. I'm pretty little and I didn't hardly have no room 2 sit under the seat lyke I usually do. It tuk us frum Wednesday to Thursday to fly across the Lantic Ocean to the town kalled Malaga in Spain. Everybudy on the airplayne shure wus tired and glad to be on the ground again. Then we all got in buses and got took to hotels in Torremolinos town where we were goin 2 stay for 2 weeks. About 120 of us had said we wanted to stay at the hotel named Nautilus so that's wear the buses tuk us and it wus a reel nyce hotel. Me and my man got put in a purty small rum that didn't have a view of the beach but he said that wus okay cus we culd see it from sumplayce else. Here are sum pitchers of the beach and the Mediterranean C.
It shure wus purty and there were lots and lots of peoples laying on chair things cooking themselves reel brown. I didn't go 2 the beach cus I didn't want 2 get wet and sandy and I am already brown but my man did one day. Maybe you saw him in the beach pitchers wearing his white t-shirt and standin in the Mediterranean C. He fell down and got all wet and peples on the beach laffed at him. He wore his t-shirt sew peples wuldn't see how wite he wus.
Well, rite after we got 2 the hotel Mr. David who wus sorta the boss man for the Grand Circle people put us into 3 grups of peoples. There wus the red and the blue and the yellow grups of maybe 40 peples each and me and my man were in the yellow grup. Every day when we went on 2ers we wuld get on the bus with the yellow flag and stay 2gether wen we were walking places sew we got 2 know the peples in the yellow grup reel well but we got 2 no lots of others, 2. Everybudy sure wus nice and lyked me pretty good cus they always asked my man wear I wus wen I didn't kum 2 eat brekfust cus I wanted 2 sleep late.
Miss Shirley who wus in the red group always asked where I wus and tuk care of me sumtymes when my man had 2 du sumpn. U can click on this pitcher of her and see sum more purty ladies who lyked me purty gud.
One man wus reel funny cus he kept kallin my man Radar. Member, that wus the karacter in Mash that had the teddy bear? They shure were nyce peples amd frum all over the Unity States.
Me and my man had a speshul "buddy" named Stephanie who wus a hole lot younger than we are. I think maybe we were 25 years older than her and it wus sort of funny cus peples got konfused. Some thought that she was my man's daughter and some others thought she wus a reel yung wife and sum thot sum other not so nice things. Here's a pitcher of us together.
Now I'll tell you sum more abowt wat we did in Spain.
Our furst day was THURSDAY and nobody did nuthin cept get put in the rite grup and later on Mr. Carlos who wus our Program Director tuk our yellow grup 4 a walk to a resturant where we ate our first meal in Spain. This is Mr. Carlos gettin ready to lead us on a walk. You kan C the yellow flag we had to follow. If we saw a red or a blue flag we culd say "hi' 2 the peples followin it but we culdn't go with them. It wus sorta funny cus wen we would go places like the Alhambra there wuld be all kinds of flags and canes and umbrellas wavin in the air cus there were a hole lot of turisty grups like ours there.
FRIDAY everybudy got 2 sleep late or get up early and eat breakfust or do wat they wanted 2 du until after noon tyme. Then we got on the bus with the yellow flag and got wat was kalled Local Highlights/Malaga Included. The bus driver tuk us all around the town of Torremolinos and Mr. Carlos told us wat we were seeing. Malaga is jist a little ways from Torremolinos and that's wear the airport is. In Malaga we got out of the bus and walked up way hi 2 see an old 4tress and look at the view. Click on the pitcher of the bull ring 2 C sum more pitchers of Malaga.
Well, Friday wus purty much fun but SATURDAY wusn't very gud. It started out reel gud cus in the morning we got 2 hear all about Flamenco dancing and see a reel Flamenco dancer do it. Here's 2 pitchers of the purty dancer and it is flamenco music you are hearin.
And we were shure lukin 4ward 2 goin 2 the town of Mijas cus we had been there b4 and lyked it reel well. Well, wen we got there we had a gud tyme lukin at all the playces we membered but then my man wus talking when he shuld have been lukin and tripped and fell down reel, reel hard and hurt himself purty gud. Nuthin wus broken but he shure did hurt purty bad and got his leg cut and later it got infectulated and he had 2 go C a doktor lady 2 get sum pills. Sew Saturday wusn't a very gud day for my man cept lots of people kept askin him how he felt and he thot that wus nyce. Here's a slide showin of some places in Mijas but not where my man fell down.
On the way back frum Mijas we stopped for a walk around the purty town of Marbella wear lots of rich peples live. My man wus still hurtin purty bad but he managed to walk purty gud. Here's sum pitchers he tuk at Marbella.
SUNDAY lots of peples went on a 2 day trip to Seville & Cordoba but we didn't cus we had been there b4. I stayed in our room but my man went to the beach with Stephanie and laid in the sun like you saw in one of the pitchers and fell in the Mediterranean and sort of rested up. U kan C him in one of the beach pitchers.
MONDAY we didn't have nuthin much 2 du either sew me and my man and Stephanie took the city bus to downtown Torremolinos but weren't there very long cus Stephanie discovered she had left her purse somewhere. Sew we went bak to try and find it. She never did find it and had lots of truble getting sum stuff replaced. It shure wus a gud thing that sum of her money and her passport were still in her room. But she shure felt bad and we all felt bad for her. Mr. David worked reel hard helping her out of truble.
TUESDAY we got on our bus with the yellow flag and went to Gibraltar. Me and my man were all excited abowt that cus we wanted to go back and see the nyce lady who sold me my blue sweater wen we were there before. I even wore my sweater sew she culd see it. Well, we shure were disappointed that the teddy bear store wus gone, But my man sed that wus life - here last year, gone this year. We didn't walk around 2 much cus my man's leg wus hurtin. I guess we didn't lyke Gibraltar vcry much this tyme. The pitcher 2 click on is of us eatin ice cream with 2 peoples in the blue group.
WEDNESDAY we went to Granada to see the Alhambra again. I got a nice purse thing wen we were there before. This tyme I didn't get nuthin 2 bring back. It shure wus funny that the first tyme I wus there a man shook his finger at me and sed sumthin abowt no perros, no perros. He wus makin a joke cus there wus a sign sayin no dogs allowed and he wus pretendin I wus a dog. Well, this tyme a lady shook her finger at me and sed sumpn abowt no animals were allowed. She wus smilin at me so I knew she wus just funnin. It shure wus a lot of walkin 2 C the Alahambra agin but my man got sew tired he culdn't du the long walk thru the purty garden like we did in 1997. We jist sat on a bench and talked 2 sum other peoples who got reel tired. You kan C there were lots of peoples wantin 2 C the Alhambra. Jist click 2 take a walk lyke we did.
THURSDAY we went 2 a reel purty town up in the mountains named Ronda. On the way there we stopped at another town on the Sea where lots of rich peples live and we walked around and looked at the purty boats and went to the bathroom and had a soda pop.
FRIDAY we didn't have a trip 2 go on but did get 2 hear a smart man frum a kollege tell us all abowt Spain and it wus reel interestin. Course I've alredy forgot most of wat he told us.
SATURDAY we went to Morocco and stayed until SUNDAY. We rode on the bus 4 maybe 3 or 2 hours to a town named Algecira and had a site seein ride there then we got on sumpn called a fairy boat that tuk us across the Straights of Gibraltar to Tangier in Morocco. That wus maybe 2 more hours but it wus fun cus I had never been on a boat 4 that long before. Wen we got off the boat sum of us got reel scared cus my man all of a sudden sed "I kant go no more" and almost fell down cus he sorta quit breathing. Well, one of our grup named Jill wus a nurse lady and she wus reel wurried and said "Get a wheel chair for this man". Well, there weren't no wheel chairs so my man jist started walkin agin and purty soon got okay. But we shure were skared that he wus goin 2 be real sick.
Aftur everybudy got off the boat we all got on another bus that tuk us to our hotel. You should have seen all the peoples wantin 2 sell us stuff. Bracelets and little elefants and stuffed camels and pretty brass and t-shirts and all kinds of stuff. It wus sort of scary. Sumbudy sed it wus like piranha fish attacking.
Here are the pitchers of us duin sum site seein in Algeceria and crossin on the boat.
After we got in our hotel and had lunch we got back on the bus 4 a site seein tour of Tangier. It shure wus a dirty town but purty interestin. We stopped at a place that had sum caves and that's wen I had my pitcher tuk on the camel. My man didn't feel lyke climbin down the 38 steps 2 the caves and then back up sew we jist watched the camels and a little donkey that wus there. I sort of wanted 2 ryde on the donkey but didn't get 2 du it.
There wus a reel big dinner 4 us that nite with sumpn kalled cous-cous that my man sed wus purty gud and there wus a big show. There wus a funny soundin band and akrobats and dancin men and a woman who danced and wiggled her tummy real funny. My man didn't take his kamra 2 dinner sew missed out on takin pitchers of the dancin lady.
SUNDAY we got on the bus agin and did sum more site seein and then went to the KASBAH that wus a hole lot of windin narrow streets with sum shops selling things and lots of those piranha peples trying 2 get us 2 buy things. Here are sum pitchers tuk in the kasbah. The kasbah sure wus interesting but we were all glad 2 to find our way out and get bak on the bus 2 go back to the fairy boat and go back to Torremolinos.
Everybudy wus tired on Monday sew we got 2 sleep late and then about 10 in the mornin did sumpn kalled A Taste of Village Life. Our yellow group got split up into little groups and each group of maybe 6 or 8 peoples wus tuk 2 sumbudy's house out in the country 2 eat lunch. It wus purty much fun 2 du that and we stopped at 2 playces wear my man got sum some presents to bring home. One playce wus a factory wear olives got squeezed up into sum real gud oil that is purty spensive in this cuntry.
Well, I guess that is all I can tell you abowt our trip to Spain. On WEDNESDAY we all got up real early and after eatin breakfust got tuk back to the airport in Malaga 2 fly bak across the Lantic. This time the big Air Bus plane wusn't sew krowded sew it wus a lot more kumfortable trip than wen we cum. Wen we got back 2 New York we got on a big Delta Airplayne and cum back 2 Dallas about 9 at night and cum right home by taxi car. It wus reel fun but we were shure glad 2 get home.
My man tuk a few more pitchers but sed I had dun enuf pitcher showin but he wanted U 2 C maybe his favorite pitcher that he tuk across the street frum our hotel in Torremolinos.
