A Spanish Wedding (Una boda espaňola)
On Sunday 14-4-13, my Mam, Dad, little
sister, uncle and I went to Salou in Spain. We met our family over there!! We
were all there to attend the wedding of my cousin-in-law Amaya. The weather
over in Salou was lovely and hot.
On Tuesday morning, we all met up to go on a
bus up to the north of Spain which is where Amaya and her fiancé live. The name
of the village that they live in is Marcilla. It was very cold
there compared to Salou.
On Wednesday morning, we all got up really
early to get ready for the wedding and the house was buzzing with excitement.
At first, we had breakfast and then we all got washed and dressed. Then we were
all waiting downstairs for the bride and the bridesmaids to come down the
stairs.
After they came down, we walked down the road
to the church (with the bride-to-be!!) and all the neighbours and all the people from
the pubs came out to look. There was a lot of cheering and screaming.
When we got there, there were a lot of pictures
taken and then the mass had started. I can’t really tell you anything about the
Mass because it was all in Spanish!! The only part I understood was the part
where they kissed!!
After the Mass, we all went outside the
church. I didn’t know what this was about when someone handed me four hard
sweets. Apparently the custom in Spain is to throw sweets at the happy couple.....so we threw them at the happy couple when they came out of the
church.
When that was finished, we went to a big
fancy hotel and we had dinner. There were ten small courses. The courses were
small but they filled me for the night! We had food like chicken croquettes,
spicy Spanish sausages that my mam said were called chorizo and a lot of weird
food that was delicious. At the end, we all had a slice of chocolate wedding
cake. It was delicious!!
Then we all got up on the dance floor and
danced the night away.
On Thursday, we were all wrecked after the
wedding!! We got on a bus back to Salou. When we got back, we all got our stuff
ready to go home because we were going home on Friday. When everything was
ready to go, we went to lie down by the pool!!!
Then Friday came and we all had to go home
back to cold, rainy Ireland!!
HT
