Way Too Close.

What this guy is doing is what all the performers would try and do - get as close to the bull without getting gored. After this happened he hopped out of the ring, then hopped back in to wave to the crowd. Even though he got closer to the bull than any other performer he still only revcieved third place, to the shouts of dissaproval from the fans. He later walked out of the ring when the first place trophy was being delieverd. Good performer - sore loser. (Try watching this in slow-motion if possible).



Wow! And I thought a backflip off the diving board was scary! I can't believe he only got 5th place!?!

What April Brings

The lodge where we stayed at for one of our school's mountain club excursions. Our room had 19 beds!



Toledo Graffiti



One of the high speed trains that can take you to Toledo. It's called the AVE - the bird and can get up to 186 mph, but I don't think ours did :(



Toledo: Fortified city of swords and Don Quixote.



We had a hippy party at the high school retreat because they talked about the Jesus Movement a bit.



This is the small little town where the retreat was held.



Near the main plaza of Madrid there are a couple sidestreets with lots of street performers.



All across Spain there are Easter processions like this. There were probably a few thousand people watching this one! The procession was stopped when I got there which actually wasn't too bad because I coudn't see anything for around an hour and a half. When they started again I climbed up some scaffolding with some other people...kind of like Zacchaeus. It's too bad that Easter in Spain is only about tradition and not about how Jesus defeated death and Satan on the cross and how we can find peace with God and be saved.



Me, Victor, and Chris at the top of "La Maliciosa". I took my snow pants off cause I was hot :)