im sad im writing this now because its been several days since this weekend's excursion and ive definitely forgotten alot of the details, but to sum it up:
we left at 7am on Saturday, so we had to get up at about 6 blah. and they ran us the entire day, with a 3ish hour tour of Palacio Real, and a shorter, but not by much, tour of the Prado museum. they were super cool! it was just super boring being on a super long tour with a lady speaking spanish at you. Palacio Real was gorgeous, im sad we couldn't take pictures inside. but those 2 things took up basically the entire day, with a great lunch in between! and by great i mean it was one of the worst experiences of our lives. for the first course i got paella, which is always good, except the meat, which was questionable, that was in it had little bones and i kept taking bites and getting a mouth full of little bones. then! a bunch of us ordered calamari for our second dish. and when i think of calamari here in spain i think of the fried rings of deliciousness, so i was pretty excited after my bone paella. omg it was the opposite of what i was hoping for. we got squid, which is ridiculous because since being here i've ordered squid/calamari 3 times in restaurants thinking it was going to be fried and awesome and all 3 times i've gotten cooked squid that was super chewy and flavorless. that's exactly what this was, except it was also stuffed with it's own intestines AND covered in INK. yes, its own ink. holy shit it was nasty. it didn't exactly taste disgusting, because it didn't have much of a taste, but just the fact that the squid was swimming in its own black ink was horrible enough. omgggggggggg i can't believe that's what we had for lunch. but we were laughing our heads off the whole lunch, it was hilarious and we were in disbelief.
then we went to the palace then got to our hotel and went to dinner. it was one of the funnest dinners of my life. omg we were laughing like crazy. first of all they gave us wine, and after our day of extreme exhaustion and no lunch we were so ready for some wine. needless to say our whole table, which consisted of just the 7 of us girls, was drunk, or at least feeling the wine. and everything we did seemed hilarious. the waiters were also opera singers! haha so they kept singing opera and having us sing along. and after dinner which lasted over 3 hours, we had champagne and then a double shot of this stuff that was red but tasted like jager. by this time it had been 4 hours of sitting in the restaurant, and we were soooooooooooooooooooo exhausted. but 4 of us decided to go out anyway! because we were in Madrid for only one night so.....duh!
so we went to this club and danced for probably 2 hours. just danced. it was glorious. oh but before this...we took a taxi to their plaza mayor and right when we got out christina lost her shoe in the road and was like "oh my shoe" then right after she said that we saw her shoe get run over by the taxi that we just took. probably my favorite part of the night. it was so good.
the next day, Sunday, we got up at the ass crack of dawn yet again and left Madrid for La Granja and Segovia. they were both GORGEOUS. and! it was FALL there. im having a real problem with there being very little trees in Salamanca and the trees that are here aren't changing pretty colors like they should be. but in Segovia and at La Granja it was falllllllllllllllll. i literally cried a little because i was so happy to see fall leaves, smell fall, and walk through crunchy leaves on the ground. omg. so La Granja is a palace that of course we took a year long tour through, but afterward we walked through the gardens behind it which were huge and absoulutely gorgeous. it was SO PRETTY. this is when i cried lol. and after that we took a 5 minutes bus ride to the city of Segovia, which was gorgeous as well, and had an awesome aqueduct. it was so super cool to see. it also has the castle that was the inspiration for the Disney castle, which was also super cool! i also bought a pretty scarf and ann and i bought keys there :)
so although we were dying the entire trip, i had a wonderful time because of the beautiful things we saw!
also, my pics on fb explain more, so if you're reading this you should check them out :)
haley
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