The Rock of Gibraltar

We left Seville in the afternoon and drove a couple of hours to see this huge rock.  It's one of Pillars of the old world. From our parking spot the rock looks amazing. As you can see it was a beautiful clear day and that made me happy because it turned out to be the LONGEST day. I'm so happy that we kept things happy and positive because all of us almost lost it today. We parked the car in Spain and walked into Britain. As went through customs the first time and got to the bus area and realized that we already had tickets but we had to talk to our travel agency and guess what.... they were in Spain, so we walked our cute butts back over there. We found the booth fairly quickly and it was closed... So we walked through customs a second time. We spoke with nice people along the way and they were very helpful with directions.

We took a one-way ride up to the top because we planned on walking down (you will learn later that this was a bad idea) As we exited our gondola there were signs everywhere warning about monkeys. These monkeys did not care how close you got to them, but you didn't want to be close... I promise. We watched as baby strollers were attacked, back packs were attacked, people who were holding things in their hands.... you guessed it... were attacked. These monkeys were crazy.

well except for this tiny baby, he was cute.

We stayed at the top for a long time because as we stood there we watched clouds form around us. For me this was the highlight of the whole day, and we saw Africa! Below you can see Africa in the distance. SOOOO cool!!

I was hoping that the monkey would fall off but he didn't :/

Here are two great pictures where you can see a cloud forming. We took a lot of videos because it was really neat. 

Because we had been eating and driving a lot we decided that we needed to walk down the rock. We met some kind people halfway down who told us about this picturesque suspension bridge but they didn't know how to get there. Well, we found it and had some fun breaking the rules. Rule #1 don't rock the bride... oops We made it out alive!

As we neared halfway we had a decision to make... left or right. We chose to go right which led us to this. 

and then to a beautiful, tall, gate with a sign that said DO NOT ENTER FALLING ROCKS.
We all started thinking, "How are we going to jump this fence!" We started talking strategies on what we were going to do and as we got closer to get a good look, Nick found a narrow path down the steep rock. We didn't hesitate and we were down and back to the streets of the little town in no time.  Well, really, the whole walk took us like 2 hours.  A lot longer than we had originally anticipated. Now the questions were, where can we find a bus, and where is food? Food was the higher priority so that happened first. We shared a $20 pizza at a restaurant with the worst service we have ever had. The bus wasn't so easy we had to walk a mile or so to find it and then when we got on we only rode it for about 5 minutes before our stop :/ We crossed back over to Spain and headed to our car and, finally, we were Granada bound.