Another eventful day! First…dinner last night. The roommate and I met up with a few other girls in the lobby to go to dinner. After wandering around for 30 minutes or so trying to find a place that one of the girls had heard about, we gave up and decided to eat at this little Italian place. Our meals ended up being really expensive...we said yes to bread when we should have said no…not realizing that bread for the 8 of us was going to cost 20 euros. Oops. Something was missed in translation there… Also (and this is typical of all places) water is kind of an expensive addition to the meal. It comes in a fancy glass bottle that you pour into your fancy cup. I’ll have to admit, it’s very tasty water and I feel sophisticated and European drinking it…but at between 2-3 euros a bottle, it’ll get expensive, even just having one a meal. Luckily, we won’t be eating out much after we get to Malaga on the 23. (The host family feeds us three meals a day)
After dinner we came back to the hotel, feeling a bit like stupid Americans again, but what are you going to do? I went for a nice walk with some other people I had met, just seeing what the night life of Madrid was like. It’s really enjoyable to walk through the streets in the evening and see everything that’s going on.
On to today. Had a nice breakfast in the morning, will have to try some different things tomorrow. They have lots of different things that I wouldn’t associate with breakfast, like lunch meats and some identifiable things that I wasn’t up for this morning (don’t worry I’ll try them tomorrow!). After breakfast Amber, Laura, and I went on an adventure to find a bank. It was mostly failed, I guess it is difficult to find a good place to cash travelers checks. I’m glad I didn’t bring any! (However, I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to get money out of my account after my current stash runs out…that’ll be for another day) We went for a tour of a nearby art museum that has a lot of Picasso and Salvador Dali. It was awesome to see such famous artwork (not that I knew the art…but I do know the people J )
After lunch in a café, Amber and I tried to meet our group at our next touristy thing (Royal Palace) but failed at finding it in time. We were disappointed to miss the tour…I really wanted to see it but we took a wrong turn and ran out of time (neither of us is very good with a map…plus we went the way that our director said would be better not to go because of the (peaceful!) political demonstrations going on). We comforted ourselves with a little shopping. We found this awesome store that I could have bought a million things in, but I restrained myself to one dress (actually I was forced to restrain because I had only taken 15 euros with me). It had reasonable prices for things…pretty much the first time I’ve seen that since getting to Spain.
That’s about all I have for y’all today. Me and Amber took a nap after getting back to the hotel and are just getting ready to go get some dinner now. Hopefully we’ll find some people in the lobby to join us for dinner!
yay! i like hearing about your adventures. needless to say i'm more than a little jealous. it sounds like you're meeting great people. i guess soon enough you'll learn not to order bread & water. weird, since those things are usually free in america. was it at least good bread? i hope so for 20 euros. i wanna know how the breakfast things are that you're going to try in the morning. i'll check in later!!
ReplyDeleteNo, it was not good bread!! It was hard and we didn't even eat very much of it. Thankfully now we don't have to eat out anymore. And I no longer remember the breakfast things I tried...except for a weird thing with blue cheese on it. and like BLUE cheese. colored blue. :) miss you much girl!!
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