Weekend Festivities

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Today Grace and I had breakfast at 8:30.  We headed on the metro and went to Parque del Retiro.  This park is huge and kind of like central park.  First we went to Palacio de Cristal.  It was so gorgeous.  There were different colored circles all around.  Next we walked around and took some more pictures.  It was nice being in the park early because it wasn’t extremely hot yet.  After, we took the metro to SOL.  Here we finally went to a El Corte Ingles.  It is basically like a Macy’s and they are everywhere.  Each store sells something different like El Corte Ingles bookstore or El Corte Ingles accessories.  We went into the one that had 7 floors including makeup, clothes, food store, post office, hair salon and more!

After we headed back for lunch and got to campus around 12:45.  After lunch I headed upstairs and started homework.  Unfortunately I have 2 papers due Wednesday so I had to get started.  At 4:30 I took a break and uploaded pictures and updated my blog.

At midnight Alyssa, Grace and I went to Teatro Kapital.  When we first got there it was drizzling!  Finally some rain to cool everything down.  Kapital has seven floors, each with its own theme.  The first floor was the best and had to best DJ.  Some floors were a Bacardi room, a room with Spanish music and a floor with more hiphop music.  It was extremely fun!  No one came until around 1:30 and at that point it was packed.  The music was awesome and the atmosphere was great.  Every so often there was a big poof of air or smoke right in the middle of the dance floor followed by gold confetti that got stuck to you.  (Side note: it is still all over my room.)  At one point four girls came on the stage with big wings and danced around.  Before we knew it, it was after 3:00.  The ceiling lights started to move and there was this big light show with music!  El Kapital was awesome and I had so much fun dancing!  After we got churros at D’CH d’Churro.  We didn't get back until after 4:00.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

This morning I woke up at 8:00 and went to breakfast at 8:30.  A few of us went to El Rastro in the morning.  It is the most popular flea market in Madrid that is held every Sunday.  I got a few gifts for people and left around 12:00.  I was so tired from getting no sleep that I took a siesta.  After I woke up the weefee stopped working from the little bit of rain we finally got, so we decided to go to dinner earlier at 7:00.  We went to El Tigre.  It was so fun!  You buy a big drink for 6 euro and then they give you free tapas.  There were six of us so we got at least 10 plates of tapas that the waiter just kept bringing out.  It was crazy, I have never eaten so many croquettes.  At one point the table next to us was done eating there croquettes so the waiter took there plate and poured it onto our plate to eat.  It was kind of gross but I still ate them.  After, we took the metro again to SOL.  We went to Chocolateria San Gines for chocolate (hot) con churros.  They were so delicious and have been in Madrid since 1894.  After we took the metro back and got in a little after midnight.