Haley's Version

I don't think we have a true 'first date'. However, I would say I was probably most nervous about our first dinner together in Granada. We were walking back to our hostel after watching the sunset and our group was going to eat fast food falafel. That was a little too adventurous for me, so I said I would stop on the way back to the hostel and grab something else. Our faculty advisor for the trip overheard me and took Holden and I to this cute square and dropped us off for dinner. Looking back, she definitely knew more than either of us at the time.

Holden's Version

I agree that we don't really have a "first date" but that one wasn't it. What I would consider the first is our three-Euro dinner from the world-class hotel vending machine in Algeciras, can't remember if it had two or three Michelin stars. After getting back from hiking 10+ miles to see the 3rd smallest waterfall in Spain, nothing hits the spot like a bag of pretzels and a chocolate milk. Even though it was already 11:30, we spent the next two and a half hours continuing our never-ending game of 20,000 questions.

Anyway, the more romantic version that Haley would probably prefer me to tell is from Seville. We snuck away from the group to visit the balcony that was said to have inspired the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. We recited the scene underneath the balcony, then shared a bottle of wine and a pizza in the courtyard outside the hostel.

"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls,

For stony limits cannot hold love out,

And what love can do, that dares love attempt:" - Romeo

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