Day 2 Segovia

Sunday:  Started off the day with our Spain running group....~ half a dozen parents who want to keep up the running while away (personally it means that I can eat more).  We headed north to Segovia.  First we checked out the Alcazar castle, super cool....has a moat and a drawbridge.  Walt Disney's mother was Spanish and he loved this castle.... Cinderella's castle was fashioned after this one.  Best part was the armor and the artillery room where there were old books under special lights, relics, and drawings of....well.... how to shoot a cannon.  Hope you can see this photo:

We attended a mass and the choir sang.  Many locals attended and, boy, are some Spaniards small people.  I had a brief spotting of Sophie and we were able to snap a photo:

Notice my boots, quick story:  we were headed out to dinner the night before and in the hotel room I hid my passport in my boot.  The next morning I put the boots on and thought my passport was lost because "they could not have been in my boots"  because I couldn't feel them.  Poor Jody helped me frantically search for my passport and after several attempts to get me to take off the boots and LOOK, I finally took off the first and said "see", and then all I had to do was start to take off the second, and...well.... we now may be in business of the "passport and money boot"....Great for secured travel.  :)

The other main attraction here is the Roman Aqueducts.  The Romans built a waterway from the Rio Frio ~17km to Segovia.  This huge arched stone without mortar structure still stands and is pretty much an engineering wonder.  You can search for a photo of this on the internet.

The delicacy of Segovia is "suckling pig"....forgot the Spanish word and sorry, I am in too much of a hurry to run up to my room and look up the word.  Spaniards come from afar on Sundays to enjoy the very tender 21 day old porker, so tender that it is traditionally cut with a plate and then they break the plate.  Sorry to all my  animal lovers, but deep down my grandfather had a pig farm and even though that was my childhood favorite animal..... I ate the pig.  I had a hind leg and yes, it was great.....but I will spare you the photo.

That evening we attended a concert of the Segovia childrens choir and the MCS choir....with all the locals the little ancient church was packed and totally against fire code.