Madrid <3

Alrighty, so the main reason I haven't been able to post in a while is because I've been in Madrid, stay win Andrés's aunt, uncle, and two cousins. They're so extremely nice and their hospitality was so wonderful. I had some pasta salad and olives, and if you know anything about me, I don't like olives very much.

Oh! That's another thing! I tried Spanish Ham, which is pretty good! At least, in comparison to American ham... Ours is way too salty, but this is nice.

So sing this to the 12 Days of Christmas tune:

On the first day to Madrid, Andrés gave to me: a four hour bus ride with no wifi. 

On the first afternoon in Madrid, Andrés gave me a: tour of the city, where I saw some really amazing sights:

 

On the second day of Madrid, Andrés gave to me: another tour- of another part- of the city of beautiful Madrid. 

(The first one is part of a metro station dedicated to the Minions movie. The second picture is one of the statues of Don Quixote.)

(We went to the lookout balcony of city hall, where I got these pictures)

(I guess every point in Spain is measured from this exact tile on the sidewalk.)

We also had burritos for dinner, at a restaurant basically like Chipotle or Free Bird. You get the idea. It was really good. Pretty spicy. 

On the third day of Madrid, I had quite a filled up day. But I can't put it all into the song tune so you can stop with that now. 

So we started at like noon, because we woke up late. His aunt drove us into town on her way, and dropped us by the famous Four Towers, and the nearby Leaning Towers.

(Those were unnerving to walk under...)

We hung out with a lot of Andrés's friends all these days too, but Saturday was the most friend-filled day. 

Saturday was also the main day of the Madrid Pride Festival. Since we had nothing else really to do, we figured that we would stop by. I guess when they say "stop by," they mean "stay from 6pm to midnight."  So that was my Saturday. Basically rainbows and really loud music and a very very drunk woman who sprayed water at me. But it was a lot of fun. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I either associated with their ways, or I spoke Spanish.

But here I am

A Straight, English Speaking Ally.

So I didn't have as much fun. But I can still be happy for them, right? Right. 

You know what I didn't like about all this?

The fact that OVER 1.5 MILLION people show up to this, from all around Spain and Europe. I guess it's the biggest Pride Parade in all of Europe? So that was scary. I lost the others in the crowd for a few moments a couple times. But I'm all okay. 

One of Andrés's friends, Fran, is super cool. He rented me a room in his apartment co pled all to myself for Saturday night. My own bathroom, my own bed, everything. It was such a cool thing for him to do because he knew I was super tired and loved to sleep, so I guess earlier in the day, he booked it for me?? It was such an awesome thing to do. 

Also I had McDonald's fries on Sunday morning at 2am because we were still in town after the parade. It moved really slowly because, you know, over a million people were trying to eat somewhere...

So here it is, Sunday night. We slept until about 11:00 this morning, then traveled over to his aunt and uncles house one more time. We ate breakfast, then lunch, and then departed for the bus station. Our 5:00 bus, yet again, took 4 hours to get to Logroño. It's so boring with no wifi. 

I had a fried egg for dinner. It was the first time I've ever had one. It was pretty okay. I'd eat one again. I also had this thing...

Maybe, depending on how involved you are in my food eating, you know that I despise zucchini. Like I can't eat it.

Unless, I guess, it's fried. Like tonight, when I had fried zucchini. It was... Okay... I'd be willing to eat it again. Probably.