We ended up in Seville for Easter Sunday. It was so interesting. Seville is mostly very large one-way streets so driving through was a little bit more difficult. The GPS to our Airbnb kept trying to take us down this one street... but that street was closed for an Easter procession. We got to get a glimpse of the procession with all the candles and found another corner to pull off on and call the owner of the Airbnb. He walked over and guided us to the car garage and then to the Airbnb. The place was very nice, but there was a leak under the bathroom sink that had molded so I had to leave all the windows open as much as possible so I didn't get sick. Luckily my room was furthest away from the bathroom. It was Easter Sunday and we had planned on trying to go to the local ward building, which was an hour away by bus. We woke up not feeling so great and decided to watch the rest of the conference sessions that we hadn't gotten to yet. That was a neat way to spend Easter morning I think.
After watching conference, we wanted to keep our day a little more Sunday oriented, so we visited walked through this pretty park to the Seville Cathedral which is the 3rd largest in the world. There we talked about Christ, the doctrine of resurrection, art, Christopher Columbus (who's tomb is in Seville... ironically because he didn't want his remains in Spain) and talking about real blessings and prayers. We talked about being able to personally talk to our Heavenly Father instead of relying on saints. We talked about receiving blessings because when we were looking for the entrance to the cathedral a pair of women stopped Evelyn and I and gave us olive branches and "blessed us" for money. They gave us blessings and prayed over us and then demanded money. Evelyn and I had a talk about blessings after that. Dad and the kids found that you could climb 34 turns up the bell tower that used to be a Moorish minaret tower.... so they did. They are true Robertsons.... if you can climb it, it must be climbed. I love it. While they did that, I wandered the annexes and looked at the art. They had a statue of Christ that is considered the most important religious statue from the baroque period.
It was about 100 degrees that day. It was so pretty, and so hot!
All the kids took turns with the camera. I love that they all want to capture some memories.
There were 4 giant organs that we could see right in the middle. It would be neat to go to an organ concert here.
This was the most ornate altar that I've ever seen.
My favorite were the relief sculptures. I've always been fascinated with these and knowing that these particular ones are about 500 or more years old was neat.
This one was a private chapel. The inscription on the wall there says that it was built for a certain family in a small script.... then in a large script it says the artists name. I thought that was really funny. The whole chapel is oval and is a 'classical' style.
The one that they had marched through the streets that morning.
The place where the opera Carmen is supposed to have begun.
The bells rang while everyone was up there by them. It scared Ada and Evelyn. Jer had to tease them for a while.
Afterwards, we took one of these horse carriages around to look at the main tourist places. The kids loved it and thanked our horse after.
Walking home after, we stopped for dinner at this pub. As we finished, we heard a peacock calling from the street. We went to look for it and it was perched on the wall.
Palms for Easter
Christopher Columbus' tomb.
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