Madrid Bound

Boats, feet, car, train, taxi, metro

Slept in... and boy did I need it! I still only got 4 hours of sleep though.

Annie, Bhavina, and Karen met me in Plaza Mayor... Karen said her goodbyes and the rest of us went down to try to rent boats for an hour. Unfortunately the boat place wasn't open, but their boats were still there!

We crossed back over the river and ran into two guys from my business classes. One is from Italy the other from Germany. They can talk to each other in four different languages and each knows more than that! I can not even fathom thinking about learning another language!

After I got a pic with them Annie, Bhavina and I got gofres. They are a thick waffle like treat that tastes more like a doughnut with ice cream and hot fudge on top! Delicious!

I went over to the res next and said goodbye to Erik and Bhavina. Then I had my last lunch. It consisted of a funky potato salad with tuna and olives in it, and pork.

At 5 PM Tomas brought me to the train station. On our way we say Annie, Janessa and Rachel walking in that direction. I did not know Tomas has a car. I'm pretty sure I asked them in the beginning if they have a car. Meh. He helped me out with my luggage and then said goodbye.

The train ride was 2 hours and 45 minutes. I chowed down on the bocadillo Maite prepared for me. It was pretty fabulous. Once we got into Madrid we had to book it to our hotel so we took a cab. The dude was a spaz though. He kept making random mouth noises and it took him a couple of tries to find the hotel. We then checked in and turned around and hoofed it to the metro. We had 10:30 dinner plans at the oldest restaurant in the world --Botin. There we met Devon and Gokul, also three other people from our summer session (but not w/ API).

Once we were done we said our goodbyes to Gokul and Devon and hopped back on the metro. On our way home some dude was telling me that it's a good workout to take the stairs (b/c I was on the stairs and he on the escalator). I rolled my eyes and told Annie I could out run them if need be. She replied, "You just have to out run me!"