Gibraltar 6/16

After making sure we all had our passports, we headed out for the 1 hour drive to a town (and apparently a separate country/territory owned by the Brits) called Gibraltar. This is home of the famous Rock of Gibraltar – in the commercials for Prudential Financial.




After crossing the border, we started to see London’s famous telephone booths and the rubbish bins of London. We felt like we were in London, it was pretty interesting. We saw the port with a cruise ship parked and many boats in the harbor.




After driving around for a little bit, we parked the car and walked down the shopping area. Once we got tired of that, we decided to take the cable car up the famous rock to see the famous Apes. Maddie is scared of heights and didn’t like this part, but she persevered through it!










Right when we landed on the top, we could see the apes, these are the only wild apes in Europe. We were told to watch our bags, because these guys like to grab plastic bags, so Aunt Denise put her plastic bag of cookies and candy into another bag and gave it to Uncle Tim. We listened to the information about the rock and the country on our self guided tour recording. We got many pictures of the apes, since they were so close. They sure were not afraid of humans! The day was somewhat cloudy, so we were unable to see the tip of Africa, but we still got some good pictures and had some great views.
We were getting ready to head down, and UT handed the bag to Aunt Denise so he could return all of our self guided tour listening things. Aunt Denise sat down next to Maddie, and next thing we know an ape comes out of nowhere! Anna yells “Mom watch out!” I see the ape grabbing her bag, and instead of realizing that this thing could hurt me, I lunge forward for the bag. I grabbed the bag and the ape ripped the plastic bag and got the outside of our cookies. Don’t worry, I saved the cookies and everything else in the bag, and the ape got nothing except the box. It was a pretty scary but very funny experience. We sure have a story to tell about the Rock of Gibraltar.





After heading back to the hotel to wash up and relax a little bit, we headed out for dinner in a town called Benahavis for dinner. This town is known for having the most restaurants in a small area, not quite sure the exact area. This was a very small town with very narrow roads, props to Uncle Tim for his great driving skills. We had a delicious dinner of tapas and wine for the adults.

In Spain, a bottle of wine with dinner is about the same price as each person ordering a soda, so of course we went with the wine. You would all be so proud of me too, I am actually drinking wine. I have been trying to like it since marrying Jordan because he really likes it, and it didn’t work up until my first sip of wine in Spain. Anyway, after dinner we headed back home and called it a night since we were going to be getting up very early in the morning.