We sure saw OLOT.

Friday and this morning I went to a small town in the pyrenees (the mountains) called Olot. Its "famous" for its surrounding volcanoes. I think theres like 7 in the area. They were, of course, all dormant. We got to this town after a two hour bus ride and after checking into our beautiful hostal, started to hike right away. We were trying to get up to this one volcanoe that was supposed to be about 2 hours away ish. The first 40 minutes were through back roads past farm houses and pretty large villa type houses. A few reminded me of Giulias house in Tuscany. We went a little bit past where we were supposed to turn up the moutain, which we discovered by talking to some guy riding by on his bike. We turned around and after I played with a cute little kitty and the boys stole some concord grapes off the vine we started uphill. As we were turning a corner we walked past a farm filled with sheep. And wouldnt you know it, one of them was giving birth! We stumbled upon them as the mom sheep was licking the placenta and goo off of the first one as stood there watching, sort of amazed that we were seeing this. Then, another little sheep just starts coming out. It seemed far less painful than human childbirth looks. the mom sheep just stood there. We finally got up to the national park after walking through some woods and fields and taking a few detours and realized it would be another 3 hour round trip to get up to summit or crater or whatever it is and back to the national park plus another 2 back down to the town. So we didnt go.

On the way back to the town we passed the sheep again, but all the other sheep were out in a feild somewhere being herded by babe or kiki and the only ones there were the mom and her two newborn babies. Both babies were walking around and making the cutest little noises. It was adorable.

Today we went up a slightly smaller peak where we actually saw the crater and it was all filled in by grass and folliage and not bubbling like i had hoped. There was also this church on the top. It was locked though- BUT THAT DIDNT STOP THESE ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS FROM GOING IN. We scaled a 10 foot wall and started to walk around this church. It was all very dangerous and exciting. We were about to stumble into what looked like the secret garden when instead we stumbled upon a naked man in the garden. He was like "Que Pasa" and started to say something else. I guess he threw on pants and started to yell at us to leave. Before I knew it Tim and ARlo had already jumped down over the wall and a scary woman was screamign at us in Catalan and probably saying some very mean things. So i threw my backpack down to them and jumped, also, nearly escaping the wrath of the curch watchers. There was another girl with us, Marina, who got too scared to jump. I guess she climbed off the wall back on to the grounds. we waited about a minute to see if she would come or else we were going to leave her dead, i guess. But they opened the gate for her to run out of and then we just bolted half way down the mountain. We laid pretty low the rest of the afternoon before our bus left, jsut incase there was some sort of warrant out for our arrest.

Tomorrow im going to the human tower competetion, where i guess we get to be part of a team????