Saturday night/god-awful early Sunday morning: First Krista and I picked Krista's friend up from the coach station, which took about an hour because we couldn't find her, then we went back to the Landward. I slept for about an hour and a half/2 hours before leaving at 2:45 AM to catch our bus to the London Luton airport. We got there at like 4:00 and waited around for our plan which left at 6:50. We got to Madrid at like 9ish and I had to wait in the long passport control line TWICE because the stupid people on Easyjet didn't give anyone a arrival form. Finally 45 minutes later, I'm done in the line and Krista's friend Andrea picked us up and we went back to her house right outside Madrid. We were all bone tired, but didn't want to waste a day sleeping so Andrea took us into the city and we got lunch at this restaurant called Diablitos, walked around a lot, and went to this really cool park.
After getting a minimal amount of sleep the night before and walking around all day, we were beat so after dinner, which was an awesome rice tortilla that Andrea's grandma made, we went to bed early.
Monday: Our goal for the day was to shop, like you're surprised. But Krista's friend Michelle wasn't feeling well so we had to stop and get medicine for her at this train station place with stores. So we decide we're going to get breakfast and Andrea, who is from Spain, has been speaking in Spanish for us, giving everyone our orders. But I want a Diet Coke to go with my delicious chocolate croissant and I took 5 and a half years of Spanish so you'd think I'd be able to say that much. Well, not so much. I got flustered and all I could say was "Tengo" and point at the Diet Coke. What I wanted to say was "Can I have a Diet Coke?" and all I said was "I have." I have. So what did the woman do? She laughed and gave me my diet coke. So the whole trip "Tengo" caused everyone to bust out laughing.
After that we walked around Madrid some more, went to this area called "Sol" where we say this statue, which I think is the cutest thing:
It's a bear and a strawberry tree and it's some kind of symbol of Madrid. After Sol we ate and then went to the Palace Real, a palace that the king and queen of Madrid used to live in. It was really cool:
Then we went shopping. All I bought was a hat, but it's really cute. I wore it all the next day, which brings me to:
Tuesday: We got up early to meet Andrea in the city, then we went to El Museo de Prado, which was really awesome. We had to wait in line for about an hour and a half, but it was soo worth it. We couldn't take pictures there, but I did by a book that had a lot of the paintings and things that were there. We saw some really cool paintings by painters like Goya, Velazquez, and a bunch of other people. This was by far my favorite part of Madrid. Naturally, I saw about 4 people who are also in the ND London Program there as well, go figure.
After the Prado, we got lunch at a place called the Pink Sushiman. It was kind of expensive, but a lot of fun!
Next we went to a Shissha bar, which is basically like flavored tobacco of some sort. I'm not exactly sure, but you don't inhale it like a cigarette or anything. You just kind of blow it back out. But this is what the thing that you inhaled it from looked like and me doing it:
Then we did a little souvenir shopping and went back to Andrea's house to get ready for the night's festivities. We went to this bar I guess that had Flamenco dancing and Spanish singing. I wore my one Eurofabolous outfit. Basically my skinny jeans and I had to borrow STILLETOS from Andrea. Okay, I cannot wear Stilletos. I was lucky I didn't break an ankle. The dancing was awesome. There was one guy dancer who had a great butt! What, you need evidence?
It was a lot of fun and the next day we left so we really didn't do anything.
So that's the end basically of Madrid. But I can't go right to Rome, because we had to spend the night in a airport in Marseilles, France, which was not the picnic it sounds like. I'll save that for next time though.
Bye all!
6 comments:
Awesome, Gina. I want to hear more!!! I love your new hat. Believe it or not I recognized the Palace Real having been there myself along with the Prado Museum. Looks like you're having way too much fun (if there is such a thing). See you in 4 weeks!
Gina, It looks as though u were smoking a bong, I'm sooooooo glad u r enjoying yourself and are not homesick anymore. I am so very proud of u. I love You, Aunt Sue
Hey I'm so glad you had fun on your travels...I just wanted to let you know that my mom is going to be in England in April for a business trip!! She gets to go on a business trip to London and Dublin...how unfair is that??... I think she wants to see you if you want!?!
AUNT SUE!! How are you? How is everyone? No, that is not a bong. It's shissha and I have no idea what the thing itself is called. Maybe it is a shissha bong, who knows? Thank you so much for commenting! I am having a great time! Love you and miss you!
Beth! Wow, your mom is lucky! Yeah, I definitely want to see her! How much fun! Hope things are well with you!
My .02:
Shisha (incorrectly spelled sisha, shissha) - Shisha is the tobacco used in Hookah Water Pipes. It is often prepared with dates, molasses and fruit. See Hookah
Uncle Wee Wee
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