After last Friday's Halloween Carnival at school, Lulu, Luis, and Alberto came to pick me up from school so that we could clean up/decorate for the Halloween party we were going to have on Saturday at Alberto's cortijo. Not sure if I've explained what a cortijo is before or not, so I'll explain now. The literal translation is "cottage" or "country house," and it's usually one that is situated on a good chunk of land that used for farming. Alberto's family's cortijo is located on a citrus farm. They grow oranges, tangerines/mandarin oranges, lemons, and grapefruits. Also, they've got some chickens and rabbits which they raise for their own personal consumption.
Taking advantage of that fact, Alberto made us a lunch of fried eggs, fresh from the chickens, and homemade french fries. Yummm. While Alberto was snagging the eggs from the chicken coup, I managed to get some cool pictures of the chickens. I also concluded it would BLOW to be a chicken haha.
After lunch, we were just sitting in the living room and it started to absolutely POUR down rain. It hardly ever rains in Almería so it was weird enough that it was raining, but the amount that it was raining was insane. We went out on the porch and just watched it for a little while. I can't remember the last time I saw that much rain...I'm sure all you Texans are in the same boat considering all the wildfires and the miniscule amount of rain we saw this summer.
When the rain finally did stop, we had to put on rain boots to get over to the other little house on the opposite side of the road where we would be having the party. Wanna know the cool thing about that house? It's a cave! Since this area of Spain is "mountainous" (they're pretty small this close to the coast but they're still mountains), people used to carve their homes in caves on the faces of mountains. Probably the coolest thing about these cave houses is that no matter what time of year it is, the temperature stays roughly the same inside the cave, between like 65 and 75 degrees. Check out my next post for more on the Halloween party and to see some pictures from inside the cave!
The storm clouds rolling in over the mountains before lunch
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