because who doesn´t love a good skype chat?

so i was skype chatting madison just now, telling her about my time in madrid, as i did, i realized that as i typed it sounded more and more like a blog post. so i decided to save myself a little time and effort and just did a quick copy/paste. and here you have it, MADRID:

[23:11:47]lessee, we left barcelona last night at midnight on a 7 hour bus to madrid, so that´s more or less where we stayed last night, isabel and i were in the back of the bus with a lot of chatty people, so needless to say it wasn´t a great night´s sleep
[23:12:44] so we got to madrid around 7 in the morning and got to our hostel around 8 with our bags
[23:13:29] this was too early to check in so we dropped off our bags, had breakfast at the hostel, and checked our email (internet again! pleasant surprise)
[23:14:23] isabel, lauren, and thomas decided to take naps on the various couches in the lounge while i did a little bus tour research because our feet were too tired and sore from barcelona to do much talking
[23:14:29] and again, naturally, we were tired
[23:14:42] so i decided on Madrid Vision Bus
[23:15:35] for 17 euros you can hop on and off two different tours of the city, one focuses on the history and the architecture, the other focuses on madrid as a modern city
[23:15:57] we took one, stopped for lunch, and then took the other
[23:16:40] usually these sorts of things are too touristy for me, but i actually really enjoyed it, we got headsets with earbuds to listen in any of 8 languages, i tried french but that was just too much for me, so i stuck to english
[23:16:52] and we had a great time
[23:17:47] then i went shopping with two of kiki´s roommates for the night from her hostel, a guy from russia, a girl from canada, both college age, cool people
[23:18:11] we shopped and talked to them and then met up with the rest of the ND spain crew for dinner. the food was more or less traditional spanish cuisine, although kiki ordered cuban rice... i had tortilla a la espagña, which was translated as spanish potato omlette, actually, most technically it was spelled Sapnish Potato Omlette, but i figured it out

and there you have it.

also: we had a snack before the bus trip with hot chocolate (so thick here!) and coffee (so strong!), aaaand there are scandalous pictures of women all over my hostel, like Talouse-Lautrec type stuff but 21st century and more...well...scandalous