Family visits Malaga

I'm the saddest girl in the world so I cooked a lot of food. Guacamole, home made pizza, and now chocolate chip cookies. It makes me feel better.

My dad left today-- I brought him to the airport, him and my brotha from anotha motha, I watched them go through the medal detectors and thought, well, here I am again, alone in Malaga with no family... my soul was sad.

BUT we had GREAT times this week. It was my dads first time leaving the country since he came to the USA from Cuba after the Cuban Revolution, so it was a special trip! Plus, my 12-year-old bro came too, he loved it!

Spanish guys family and my family met! I thought it would never happen cause they are an ocean apart, but we all met for lunch in the mountains and everyone LOVED my dad, it was great! It was a HIT!
My father found out that we have cousins that we didn't even know existed, which live in Spain. We were so EXCITED and CURIOUS to meet them, so we drove 6-7 hours to Valencia which is in the North East of the country to meet the Cubans. They came to Spain 8 years ago and have been here ever since. I cant believe I've been living in this country and didn't even know that there were more Mendoza's around! :) Here we are standing under Mendoza STREET/WAY, hahahaha!!! What a koinky dink! (PS what a handsome cousin I have!)
Some pictures of Valencia. To me it resembled Seville, then again, I didn't get to see too much of the city, we were only there for one night.

We also went to Nerja to relax near the beach and explore caves!!! I felt like I was walking on the moon in the cave! It was an awesome time, I was flipping out the whole time I was in there! CRAZY!!


Lets see, what else? We went to Antonio Banderas' Restaurant (he's from Malaga), we went to an old fishing town, El Palo, near Malaga Centro to eat sea food (not me, I'm a veggie), we walked around the city, the beach...

Now daddy is gone and I miss him dearly. It was nice to spend so much time with my dad and brother, it must have been about 10 years since I spent a complete week with them, usually I see them one day here and one day there during the summer only. I realized everything we have in common and how similar we all are, like my lil bro with the camera, he's just like me, loves to snap photos!
I heart them. and I LOVED to share my Spanish life with them. I thought this day would never come. Now it has come and it's passed as well... a part of me went back to NYC with my family.