Mallorca, Spain

This weekend, we took our last vacation outside of Germany.  It was awesome, but a little sad at the same time...

Mallorca is an island off the coast of Spain and for us, it was pretty much a beach vacation- the three S's : Sun, Sand, and Sleeping.  Of course there were other fun things that didn't start with S too.  Like frozen drinks, the pool, and a sweet mini-golf course.  But more on that later.

We decided to call our trip to Mallorca our honeymoon since we never really took one.  In a way, I guess our whole year in Germany has kind of been like an extended honeymoon... but in my book, honeymoons don't include washing dishes, doing laundry, or making dinner.  So this was it.

I won't write a detailed play-by-play of our trip, but I'll highlight some of the most awesome things (there's only so much "and then we went to the pool" you can take).

We arrived early Thursday morning to an overcast sky :(.

We were too early to check in, so we had to carry around a lot of our stuff (the baggage room didn't seem to safe...).  But as soon as the sun came out and we were lying on the beach, we were happy as clams.

When we did get our room, it was fabulous- on the top floor of the hotel with a balcony overlooking the sea!

For the most part, we spent our time lounging under palm umbrellas on the beach

swimming in the sea, lounging by the pool,

swimming in the pool, drinking fantastic frozen drinks while people watching, eating, and relaxing.


Saturday, we went into the city of Palma de Mallorca to do some touristy sight-seeing.  The best part was Poble Espanyol.  It was a small walled village with reconstructions of architecture from all over Spain.  It was like taking a two week vacation through Spain in just two hours with NO TRAVELING!

Arriving back in the center of the city, we were lucky enough to catch the changing of the Guards in front of this awesome cathedral!

That evening, we went to the awesomest mini-golf place with fantastic food.  It was the House of Katmandu and was probably the coolest building for a mini-golf/restaurant to be housed in EVER.

Sunday was the day to get in all the things we'd missed so far.

We took out a paddle boat and paddled around the mini-island in the inlet

And even went to the fish spa to get the dead skin eaten off our feet!!

it tickled.  A LOT.

We were both sad that we had to leave, but it was an awesome last trip in Europe (at least for a while!).