We almost missed our 6 pm time slot to visit the actual royal residence, pictured here, which would have been aggravating after an eight hour wait. Tracey went missing around 2 pm. After about an hour we started to worry, and Somchai became weirdly convinced that she was dead in the ladies' bathroom. Anyway, we looked everywhere for her, got the security guards to look for her and made announcements over the PA system, just like losing a kid at an amusement park. But she eventually surfaced, having spent the afternoon shopping. Where I don't know since the Alhambra isn't a shopping center, but I didn't care since at least her reappearance stopped Somchai's plan to invade the ladies' rooms in search of her corpse.

Pictured here are a few of the open air courtyards where visitors, diplomats etc would wait for a royal audience.