and to think that i saw it on mulberry street, or in other words, our first day on tenerife (spring break #3)

day one in tenerife:

we get to tenerife, get to the hostal, meet manfred, and since we basically haven't slept all night other than moments on the plane, we immediately lock ourself in our beautiful yellow room and nap together on the bed we share. fortunately, manfred interrupts our nap to inform us that the entire island closes up on sundays, and that if we want food we should go to the market immediately. so force ourselves out of bed and go for some snacks at the market (prinipe cookes, bread and jam, and munchitos aka the best chips in the world), continue to nap.

waking up in the sunshine of our room, we eat all of our chips and a roll of cookies, and head out for a walk. the town is ridiculously cute and beautifully amazing, i fell in love. here are some highlights:

1) we learned the wide definition of public art with this crazy window that was covered in gum. it was gross and awesome all at the same time.

2) this apartment was for sale and tessa and i decided we should buy it. best possible dream home. we would sleep on the balcony (hammock?) and feed the birds and eat tropical fruits.

3)we went to a cafe for an afternoon dessert, and made some friends...we ate and spent our time discussing how we were in paradise, and eating an amazing dessert in the sunshine. every once in a while we would hear some noises from the other part of the courtyard, but didnt think anything of it. all of a sudden, as we were finished eating, there was a peacock. seriously, a peacock was just walking around the tables randomly. the waiters would walk around him, nobody even seemed to notice the bird. meanwhile, tessa and i were freaking out with excitement. so then we decided to walk around the courtyard and see what else was around. there were birds all over the place, a random statue of a cow (reminded me of home sweet home) and a tinman sitting on a bench!

after some more exploring we come home starving, only to realize that everything was closed, and we had forgotten to get food for dinner. all we had was bread and jam. so we had an extravagant meal of bread and jam, we even had to steal the butter (quite an experience that involved trickery, mathematics and taking turns watching the halls for people coming, haha)