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The story of my trip to espana....
So sunday we went to el prado and the reina sofia...wut were they thinking sending us to two museums when we had been awake for 48 hours....i dont kno i think they were on crack... it was fun bc we had to try and find out the madrono was (its a type of fruit) so we had to ask every single security guard in the prado. and then we went out to eat at this buffet thing...and we couldnt stop laughing bc we were so slap happy...and then nick our tour guide was walking through the streets with his umbrella over his head (he looked a male mary poppins) ...and then they finallly let us sleep!
monday we went to toledo and it was the most beautiful city i have ever seen in my entire life. we got to see el greco's painting of the funeral of san tome and then we got to go shopping and i bought some rly beautiful gold jewelry because toledo is famous for its gold. and then i bought my mom some jewelry to...she rly liked it yay! After that we went to a tapas demonstrations thing... danielle jodi and i sat with nick and the teachers...nick made fun of me for like thirty minutes...so i got up and moved...so danielle and jodi picked me up and dragged me back to the table....it was fun...and then we got to hear nick yell the bl word (bloody which is the english equivalent of damn) rly loud...it was funny. after that we went to get churros con chocolate with lara dunlevy (shes studying in madrid) which was also fun bc i havent seen her in forever. then jodi and i had a party in our small and oh so ghetto room....
tuesday we went to segovia and el escorial and the valley of the fallen. segovia was pretty and a i bought a rly kewl skirt and a rly kewl purse at this store called mango...omg our guide at el escorial was the worst dressed man i have ever seen...he had on bright red pants and a blue shirt with a bright red sweater...he looked like a tropical bird...then we went to the valley of the fallen...it was rly sad...its a memorial to all the ppl that died in spains civil war..the only thing i didnt like there was seeing fracno's grave...i rly wish i had spit on it! grr..en franco's cara! we ate in this rly cute little restaraunte in madrid.
wednesday we left madrid at like 7 in the morning for sevilla. we walked around sevilla and had a flamenco lesson...its official i cannot dance to save my life...but it was fun our teacher was from california and that was the first american we had seen....we went to a flamenco show that night... it was so cool, the dancers were amazing...some of the guys got a little bit to into it but it was really fun. there were italians in our hall that kept knocking on our door and writing us notes and slipping them under the door...it was rly funny..they were really drunk...senora yelled at them...it was funny.
thursday we went to the cathedral and we saw columbus' grave (woot) the cathedral was sooo awesome, it was gorgeous...we saw the italians at the top of the tower, the view was awesome (of the city not of the italians!). after that we had some free time so we decided to go lay out by the pool on the roof. it was soo nice...but then nick decided to visit it us at the pool...and then he decided to throw sammie in the pool but she had jeans on...so he decided to throw me in instead...and i rly didnt think he was going to do it...but i was wrong...when i came out of the pool nick looked at me and said, "that wasn't very nice." and then ran away...i guess he thought i was gunna beat him or something. it was rly funny. then we went to the bullfight... it was so awesome... we got to see one of the best matadors in spain...he was soo good...one of the other matadors could not kill his bull...the crowd actually started to applaud the bull because it just wouldnt die! the italians were banging on our door again that night..but this time they were alot more drunk and rly rly rly funny... the kept shouting "open ze door, we think you are beautiful, girlz open ze door, come out, we want to party, etc" until nick shouted at them...he yelled at their chaperones too, because their chaperones were drunk too.
friday was my birthday! yay! it was rly fun...but we spent three hours in a bus to granada...it was kind of a waste of time... but it was fun...senora gave me a pair of earrings for my birthday...and nick gave me his hat that he bought at the bull fight...and then he made everyone sing to me on the bus...it was fun...we gave awards to our secret buddies...i got best spanish accent..woot woot...then we went to sleep and we had to get up at five on saturday to leave for the airport. when we left to get on the plane a couple of the girls started crying because no one wanted to leave nick...i think nick was about to cry too...ill miss him a whole whole lot...then we spent 26 hours in four different airports and finally got home last night at 1230 (630 am in spain and we had to get up at 430 am the day before). that was my awesome trip to espana!
te amo
laura b