Well our weekend was one of the most eventful I've had in a while. Since I don't have class on Friday it is nice and long, too. Thursday night Real Madrid played and won. Cristiano Ronaldo is my new Cam Newton. When in Spain, right? There has been a cold front in Madrid the past few days and as you can imagine I have been handling it like a baby. When Pilar told me it was below zero degrees I almost had a cow. Then I remembered good ole Celsius. There is a mall five minutes from our house and there is a Zara, H&M, and this European store Sfera that I love.
I had my first Churros with Chocolate from the Churrería down the street from the house. In Spain, Churros are about as popular as Frozen Yogurt is in the states.
Every weekend night in Madrid they have pub crawls. Madrid has more bars than any city in the world. Scary. Some of the Auburn people were going and they told me "to put my big girl panties on and come." So I did. You ask why you have to be a brave soul to partake in this? Well, it starts after 11 and goes until 6:00 a.m. when the train starts back up. I guess if you want to cop out and blow all of your Euro's for the week you can take a taxi back to Alcalá. The first place we went to was called Fontana de Oro, the Fountain of Gold. It was my favorite out of the five places we went. A few of us pushed our way to the front. The band asked us where we were from and then played Sweet Home Alabama. Yes. In Madrid, Spain. It brought tears to my eyes. In the pub crawl group there were some girls that are Au Pairs here in Madrid. How cool! They were from Holland, Germany, and London. They've been in Madrid for a few months now so they showed us the ropes. I am still in shock that Spanish people stay out so late.
Like I said, the train doesn't start running again until 6:00 a.m. But the Rastro starts at daylight. "El Rastro" means "the Market" and is a huge event that takes place every Sunday. Sara and I had the wise idea to stick it out and stay for the Rastro. Once you've made it to 6:00 why not stick it out. It was so fascinating! Tables lined up outside for blocks selling all sorts of things from clothes, paintings, purses, leaf-blowers to pets! I was a zombie by the time I got back to the Zaldivar household. Today I slept lots and now just about to watch a little Ley and Orden which is Law and Order with awful lip syncing.
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