Madrid, Spain Last Day.

Today was fun. We took a out-of-town trip to Segovia and Avila Spain. Avila is one of the oldest cities in Spain and is the birthplace of Saint Teresa.  Segovia has a huge castle and a cool 2000 year old aqueduct. You  can guess which I'm going to talk about the most. Wrong guess.

Saint Teresa is not Mother Teresa.  But she was a nun that ruled a monastery that she bought with her own money and ruled it with an iron hand  Now you know that there  isn't going to be a Catholic lesson via me. The reason I mentioned her at all is because they have a "most important of all her relics" located conveniently in the gift shop next door to where her "house" is located. Before I tell you about the relic I should tell you what a relic is. Catholics believe that prayers are conducted via a priest to heaven. Prayers can also be channeled through a holy person like a saint to God and a relic of a holy person "supercharges" (my words) a prayer and brings special status to the prayer. You Catholics that read this shouldn't get all bent out of shape over what I just said and throw sticks and stones at me. Sticks and stones may break my bones but please don't throw sticks and stones. Okay let's kiss and make up Catholics. Great. Anyway, a relic is a piece of a holy person's  body. That's right, they used to bury them in shallow graves and distribute the bones later to wealthy or holy people. We saw many human bones today of different people used as decoration  in a Catholic church.  Well, I said bury them didn't I? Well they didn't do quite that to Saint Teresa. Instead after she died they hacked her up and distributed the pieces intact or so I am told. She was more popular that calamine lotion at a poison ivy convention. It seems every town she lived in, worked, or whizzed in wanted a piece of Saint Teresa when she croaked off. Now Avila was high up in the pecking order and "got the most best relic". Can you guess which piece? Head, foot, ear, eyeball, butt cheek, or what?  Get this, Avila got her ring finger.  Avila "got the most best relic" of a ring finger. Yep in the gift shop they had the find in a glass cage behind the wax Sister Teresa dolls. The finger is mummified and stuff not a bone. Dude that is nasty and super, super, super creepy. Nasty.

Segovia didn't have any nasty fingers but it did have a really cool old aqueduct that the Romans built of course you already know that. Yep, the pictures are below. The aqueduct was mostly underground but this thing was constructed with no mortar at all just precision cut stone blocks. Too cool. It was almost so cool that it erased the creepiness of the mummy finger but not enough. Anyway this thing was cool.

I have to get up in 3 hours to get to the airport for a 6:45am flight. Time for bed. I'll see Yall soon.

Hogs and kittens,
Al

P.S. The photo is taking too long to upload. I'll post it from home.