A concert, the beach and new friends=great weekend

Not exactly sure where my last blog post left off but I'm gonna begin this one from last Friday. What a crazy fun weekend this has been. Friday, finished school, having four hours of class a day has been realllly tough. I haven't had four straight hours of class since high school and its definitely not something I would choose to do ever again. Anyway, class ended and it was time to get ready for the weekend. So many plans to choose from but I ended up picking heading to the free music festival friday night and then off to Nerja on the Mediterranean coast on Saturday. David, Forrest and I headed out to meet up w/ some classmates for tapas at about 9:30. Little did we know the people we were meeting had absolutely no sense of direction and we ended up doing a 3km circle through the city before finally finding them, in completely the opposite end of town from where they "thought" they were. After a couple cervezas and tapas we grabbed a bottle of rum and a couple liters of coke for the botellon at the Festival. A botellon is this amazing spanish invention. Basically its a place somewhere in the city where people can legally drink outside in the streets, like a specific plaza or area. For this festival a make-shift one had sprung up near the entrance. I wish I had pictures of it, there were just thousands of young people drinking and hanging out, it was quite a sight. Once at the festival, which was a 45 minute walk from down town (next time we're taking a taxi) we met up w/ Sera and a couple of her friends and headed in to listen to a group called Los Diliquentes. It was a bout 1:30AM before they came on but it was well worth the wait. We got all the way to the 3rd row and although we couldn't understand a word it was amazing to be there w/ all the youth of Granada just having a great time. Didn't end up getting home until close till 5.
7AM Time to wake up and shower off last night before heading out to Nerja. I was soo very tired and hung over, but the promise of swimming in the Mediterranean propelled me to get my ass out of bed and down to the bus. Our first stop was a Castle in Alcazar, about 20 minutes down the coast from Nerja. It was beautiful, but my exhaustion and the extreme heat at 10 AM meant that I was really just happy to get back on the bus, I'll make sure to research the cultural parts of these excursions more next time.
After this we headed for the Famous Nerja Caves, these were equally amazing. The main chamber was 100m by 50m by 30m! My pictures didn't come out very well from this and I doubt there is really anyway a picture could do such a magnificent place justice. I was rather disappointed to see how the cave has basically been destroyed in the name of a profit, but it was incredible to see.
And then, FINALLY, we got to the beach. I am not a "lay on the beach" kinda guy. So me and an Icelandic buddy of mine and my friend Sarah headed off to explore for ways to jump off the various cliffs around. Needless to say, we found cliff after cliff, higher and higher. Unfortunately the water was not very deep so we had to stop at around 35 feet, but it was still tons of fun. After a couple hours of this, we climbed back up the steps into town, got some gelato to wash the salty mediterranean out of our mouths, got on the bus and slept the whole way home. Spent the rest of the weekend catching up on work, correspondences and recovering. Would go into more detail, but this post is already long, plus its siesta time...