MADRID!

Alright, let's do this. 

After a really uneventful week filled with midterms and sleeping, our weekend in Madrid has finally begun. 

Last night we decided to go out to celebrate being done with midterms, and went to a really cool club called Las Animas over in the port. It's an open air club on the roof of a building, and it was actually pretty sweet. We also took advantage of El Castillo once again, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed dollar chupitos and dollar cervezas. 

After a solid three and a half hours of sleep, we hopped on the bus to Madrid! It took four or so hours of driving to get there, and we stopped once to eat lunch and get coffee and pastry things. I'm pretty sure the mayoria of people just slept, and I definitely crushed a nap or two. 

Once we got into down, we went straight to the Palacio Real for a guided tour. You weren't allowed to take ANY pictures, which was really frustrating because it's seriously gorgeous on the inside. Literally every single room has a completely different color scheme and design, and even the "less important" rooms are crazy ornate. The royal family doesn't live there anymore (I think our guide said that once Franco came into power the royal family stopped living there). 

After the tour, we got back on the bus and went over to our hotel. Rach and I are sharing a room (hooray!) on the fifth floor, and Will Luke and TeJota are sharing a room on the floor below us. 

Rachel and I took a nap immediately after we got here, and the guys went to explore around a little bit. The five of us went to this AWESOME restaurant for dinner at around 9 or so. They make everything in house, and everything we had was delicious -- a potato egg ham dish, a salmon red pepper blue cheese dish, a tortilla (that's like a potato pie sort of thing) with onions and goat cheese, and a plate of all-legs calamari. And a bottle of wine. 

We swung by a little store on the way back to the hotel, and we're currently listening to music, digesting, and preparing for what should be a really fun night. We have tentative plans to go to Kapital, a seven floor discoteca that my host sister and multiple other people said is a MUST go to place. Vamos a ver. 

Hasta luego!