I'm right in the middle of Adam's visit here, but I have a few minutes to update b/c of a slight scheduling problem, that I will get to later.
But first; On Friday Tali (Gail's friend from HS) arrived and she, Evelyn and I went on a tour of Santiago Bernabeu, where Real Madrid plays. I thought it was pretty sweet. The best part was sitting on the bench then going down the tunnel to the locker rooms. I was all excited b/c I thought we would get to see Real's locker room, with all of their names up and stuff, but we just got to see the visitor side. It was awesome anyway though, definitely a treat for a former futbol player to see inside the home of the most successful club in the world.
On Saturday evening Gail arrived, and after getting to the hostel and getting dinner I met her and Tali at a cueva for some sangria. Cueva literally means cave, but they are just underground bars. This one had a pretty cool atmosphere, with quotes painted on the walls which they wanted me to translate. It was incredibly loud though, with all of the Spaniards there, some were even chanting, not sure why. And then there was the obnoxious American girl who came us to us and announced herself as a fellow American when she heard us speaking English. What a great ambassador for our country, haha. A guy was trying to play piano above it all too, but it wasn't really working out. We then went out for churros, which tasted exceptionally good at 3 in the morning!
The next day I met Adam at the airport and we spent the afternoon in El Parque de Buen Retiro. We sat in a quiet place in the shade for a while, and then went over to the busy middle section were there were lots of street performers. That night Gail and Tali came over to my apartment to experience some of my awesome cooking (past of course, haha.)
On Monday I had class in the morning, then Adam and I had planned to go to a museum, but we found out that they are all closed on Mondays. So we ended up going to the Palacio Real and taking a tour, then walking around Puerta del Sol and Plaza Mayor and had some churros. We had our six month anniversary dinner in Plaza Mayor, which was very nice.
On Tuesday we went to the Thyssen museum and saw the permanent collection there, as well as a temporary exhibit called El Retrato, which chronicles the history of portraits. There were a lot of self-portraits in it, which I thought were very interesting. We then went to a little local place for lunch, which was really good. We got the menu del dia for only 8.50 which includes 2 courses, bread, drinks and dessert and it was all very good and authentic. I will definitely be going back there. We then came back to rest and plan out our itineraries for our next two trips. That night we had tapas for dinner, then went to a flamenco show.
This morning Adam came to class with me at Nebrija. He was jealous at how easy and fun classes are. We basically just talk about the cultures in our own countries and compare it to Spanish culture. Then we came back to my apartment to eat lunch and pack in preparation for what we thought was our 5:45 flight to Paris. When we got to the airport we couldn't find our flight on the screens, which was the first sign that there was a problem. We ended up finding out that the flight had actually been at 5:45am this morning and we had missed it. So we went running around the airport in search of another cheap flight to Paris. I felt like we were in the Amazing Race, toting our backpacks around the airport and checking flights (although we were looking for the cheapest and not the shortest.) We ended just booking with RyanAir for the same flight, only tomorrow morning. So we came back to eat dinner and try to get some sleep, then we will head back to airport. The only problem is that the metro stops at 1:30am, and a taxi is about 30 euros, so we are just going to leave at 1:00 to take the metro to the airport and hang out there for a little bit in the middle of the night. Fortunately we won't have to drop anything from our itinerary (except a good night's sleep.) Adam has wisely been sleeping for the past 2 hours, but I just couldn't make myself go to sleep at 9pm. I guess I should try now though so that I won't be tired in Paris!
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