Our weekend in the Canary Islands was incredible and our way of celebrating our birthdays. We found some really cheap tickets online on Spanair's promotion for 50 a piece each way and decided we had to do it. Also, thanks to Izzy's mom for a generous birthday gift that really helped to make the weekend more enjoyable, we hadn't stayed in a proper hotel for some time. We arrived Friday afternoon and the landing on Gran Canaria is quite a bumpy ride as you basically drop quickly and pull a 180 degree turn to land on the runway on the east side of the island. We caught a bus up to Las Palmas, the capital of the island(s) and found our hotel right on the coast line with a view out over the east and the Atlantic. We walked around the historic part of the city Friday afternoon/evening and found some really beautiful old buildings. The Canary's were the jumping point for Christopher Columbus before he set off to discover the islands of the Caribbean. We found a museum called the Casa de Colón but no one is sure that Columbus ever lived here but might have just passed through on his way to the Americas. Anyways, the architecture is quite nice and the balconies and outside access to the nice weather via the house seems enjoyable. We had dinner in a local plaza and enjoyed relaxing in the cool breeze. The temperature the entire weekend stayed between mid 60' to mid 70's. On Saturday, we spent the day at the beach lying in chairs and trying to add some color to our skin that hadn't seen much since for a few months. The picture of the beach is where we spent that day.
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