Luna Mora

Today we did not plan on going to do a whole lot but its crazy how fast plans change.  After spending the afternoon at the White Party at Luci's chiringuito with amazing friends, we packed up and made a LONG drive to visit a pueblo blanco (white town) just north of Marbella for the festival of lights... and by long drive, I mean almost 3 hours one way to walk around for a few hours only to return home... Throughout the drive there I kept thinking to myself how crazy we were and that it better be something amazing we were about to partake in because it really was a long drive... and even worse... longer because Steve and I were only running on a few hours of sleep from the night before. The closer we got the more be were wondering what in the world we were thinking going so far to spend a few hours to turn around and come back home.... 

Finally- we made it... to the parking lot... WHAT?!  

We arrived in Guaro only to find that the first two exits into town had been blocked off from through traffic for the concert they were having and had to make a 20 minute detour only to find we had to park in a dirt parking lot and get bused into town.  

 We got in line for the bus... drove the last 10 min into Guaro... and headed straight to the food.  We were all so hungry and the food smelt amazing!!

We finally made it into town and were so happy we made the trip.  

The whole town has been lit with 25,000 candles, filled with thousands of visitors and booths of all sorts.  

We were extremely happy to find amazing food...

 

 After eating we began walking around.  It was dark by the time we finished eating and the whole town had their candles lit. This was what we came for... candles lit the streets of this little town.  It was awesome and well worth the drive... no matter how tired we were.

The main street lined with booths of crafts, clothes, foods, etc. from locals selling their homemade items.  

We stopped so Morgan could get a henna tattoo... 

at one of the booths

 Then Liam... 

 Walking though the town... 

 The streets were packed!!  

Here the crowd gathered around to watch a performance:

 More booths:

 On the way out- Liam was dying to ride one of the rides... so he chose the merry-go-round: 

 ... and loved it!

 My boys.... Love them!! 

We left around 10:30 to head home.  On the way home- everyone fell asleep leaving me alone to drive. Im so grateful we made it home... it only took loud music, a full pack of gum, the kids cotton candy bucket, two drinks, and rolling the window down often.... I was SO tired but not as tired as Steve... I couldn't even wake him up to keep me awake.  Never again will I drive home that tired... we should have just stayed the night in Marbella.  Lesson learned... but I am SO glad we went!!