Day of Interesting Foods

Started out the day tip toeing hoping not to wake my room mate from Minnesota. We'll be living together just at the hotel. Once we get to Salamanca I'm all by myself.

We had a free breaky!!! Wahoo.. gotta love free stuff (they dont come by often here!)

After breakfast we headed to the Royal Palace. This is the Salamanca group outside the Royal Palace. The king and queen dont live here... they just throw parties here occasionally.

We then had lunch at La Viga... Oh dear goodness. Here they have Menu del Dia which is a 3 course meal for a set price (9.10 Euro at the place I went). I went for the soup thinking it was a safe choice. Not so much. It had floating bread. IDK. It was weird. I think it was called Sopa Castellano. Second course was Albondigas. Robert knows how I like my albondigas in Spain. Anyways... They served it with french fries on top. What the heck! I thought he was making fun of me at first, but other people in the restaurant got that too.

Next we went to the Prado Museum. I've been to both the Palace and the Prado before but this time I knew more about the history of Spain and appreciated it more.

We were then oriented about what was going to happen in Salamanca. Long informational meeting.

Janessa, Rachel, Annie (another girl from Minnesota) and myself went out to meet Janessa's new Spanish friend David. We had dinner at a place called Santa Ana. Janessa asked for the weirdest things on the menu. We got anchoives, octopus, plate of ham and cheese, and bread with tomato on top. I thought I was going to starve, but I tried it all. Go ME! The anchoives tasted like salted slime, whereas the octopus tasted like salted gummy bears. I cant say that I'll be ordering them again. David works at that restaurant so one of his friends that sells trinkets gave us fake roses (the colors matched our shirts! haha).