Vamos a la Playa, A mi me gusta bailar

This weekend five of my friends and I decided to travel to Cadiz, a coastal Spanish town, to soak up a little Spanish sun.  We hopped on a train early Saturday morning and arrived in Cadiz around 10:30.  The hostel that we were staying at provided us with directions from the train station, but they consisted of no numbers or street names.  For example, we were told to go to the church outside the train station and follow the red line.  The hostel said that once the line ends, they were the second door on the left; they also added "we didn't put it there but it sure is convenient."   Well, apparently there is also a red line that goes all over Cadiz because we followed that one.  After walking around in circles for 15 minutes, we ended up right back where we started.  We realized that the hostel was not far from the train station at all, and that there is no end to the red line, but rather a break in the red line, which is where the hostel sat at the second door on the left.  Once we entered the hostel, we were prepared to use our Spanish skills, but the hostel employee said, "sup yall?" in response to our various "holas;" he was from Chicago.  His name was Michael and he was quite entertaining.
We couldn't officially check into our hostel until 1:00, so we dropped our stuff off and set out to walk around Cadiz for the remainder of the morning.  We went to a couple of forts that sat out on the water and took a few pictures.  Riley and Hope really liked climbing on rocks, and they were lucky it was low tide.
Once we checked into our hostel, we hung out on the rooftop terrace for the rest of the afternoon and napped/tanned.  
Around 7, Michael gave us a tour around the city that provided us with both history and lots of humor as well.  We saw the beach where Halle Berry had her infamous bikini scene in the James Bond flick "Die Another Day."  But, we found out a little secret about Halle Berry.  So, Cadiz is a lot like San Francisco, you think it is a warm climate, but the wind that comes off the water makes it a rather chilly city.  We had this experience in the middle of May, and Halle Berry shot that movie in February.  So, she apparently put her feet in the water and said that there was no way she was getting in because it was too cold; apparently it was her body double that actually filmed that scene.  Our friend Max (and the only boy on the trip) then said that basically his entire teenage years were ruined now.  So, I'm sorry to any guys reading this who have that same reaction.
We also saw the ruins of the second largest Roman theater which were discovered when a guy was "rolling some joints," as Michael put it, and fell asleep, thus burning down the modern building that sat atop these ruins.  During the clean-up process, fire fighters discovered what seemed to be ancient artifacts, so the called up some archeologists and voila! A Roman theater was discovered.
This was also my first time staying in a hostel, which I found to be a great experience because you meet people from all over Europe.  A met a young woman from Russia, a boy from Germany, two men from Italy, and a young woman from Sweden.  The hostel's rooftop terrace was where we would congregate and chat about what each of us was doing in Cadiz.
This was such a fantastic city and I was so happy that I got to visit it during my time here in Spain.