Ronda

Ronda was next.  The drive up there is quite windy, but the views are awesome.

We bought some fresh cotton candy.  It was the biggest cotton candy I've ever seen!  We all ate our fill and there was still leftover.

 

This is the beautiful "new" bridge (build in the 1400s I think).

After looking at the beauty of the city itself, we toured the bullfighting museum.  Ronda is the birthplace of modern bullfighting, and the bullring there is the first in Spain.  I rented an audio guide and listened to every section!  I learned a lot (but forgot a lot too) and now I want to see part of a bullfight.  Not a whole six bulls worth, but just one bull.  Probably.

Anyway, we got to see where the bulls are kept during a fight and we followed the path of the bulls into the ring.

(Michelle, channeling her inner bull)

Once in the ring, Hollis and Neoma played a little bit of bullfighting.  They didn't know they had an audience until they started cheering.

On our way out, we bought lunch.  I was unadventurous with McDonald's (giving into my cravings for American fast food again), but the others bought jamón bocadillos.  Jason is very impressed with the sheer number of pig legs (jamón) that the shop has.

 

There are several varieties of jamón, but all of them are served thinly sliced.  The man pictured below is very good at matching the jamón to cheese that complements it nicely.

Jason really enjoyed his sandwich.