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On Friday, we took a day-trip to Toledo. We took a bus tour at first and went to a spot across the river to get a beautiful landscape view of the entire city. Toledo is perched up on this hill surrounded by a river. It was incredible and a breath-taking scene.

We took the escalators to get up to Toledo and went to the cathedral. I will be honest and say that I have seen an incredible amount of cathedrals at this point and am having trouble recalling our visit to this one. However, I do remember the Baroque decorations. Our tour guide mentioned that the area behind the alter in most cathedrals are the darkest and the architects of this cathedral thought to put a large window to create for lighting. There were also several cardinals buried in this cathedral. People hung these red caps above the tombs. The “legend” is that when the caps fall, their souls have entered into heaven. Unfortunately, none of the caps have fallen, so they’ve been trapped for quite some time now. Something unique about this cathedral was that in a room it housed several original works of El Greco. His largest painting was of Christ and it was unique because he painted people in the background above Christ’s figure, which was looked down upon. There were also paintings there by Van Dyck and Carvaggio. After our visit to the cathedral, we went to a smaller chapel that has The Burial of the Count of Orgaz. It was a self-portrait with also the face of his wife as Mary and the face of his son as well as he depicted a two-world picture. We then had a little bit of free time where the “sisterhood” found a small courtyard to sit in the sun and leisurely eat our lunches. While we were there, Spanish boys around our ages started calling out from the windows and they came down to talk to us. Jenny thought it would be funny if she and Lexi just started speaking Gibberish instead of any English or Spanish. She did a fantastic job of keeping a straight face (can’t say the same about myself) and we walked off until Ashley’s conscious got to her and they walked back to try to apologize and talk to the Spanish boys. They had disappeared and Lexi tried throwing pebbles at their windows to get them to come down again. Eventually, they got their attention and cleared their conscious. As we headed back to the bus, we realized we had no idea where to go. Jenny and Ashley were positive it was one way while Lexi and I were sure it was the other. We split up and I am proud to say that we made it back to the bus long before Jenny and Ashley.