Not much...

There wasn’t much of excitement that happened this week, so I only included the highlights, and everything else was basically me going to school and getting homework done. Not really any new foods, however, we are finally having paella today for lunch!!! So I’m really excited about that.
This next week we are going to Andalucía and we’ll be stopping along the way in Merida, Sevilla, Granada, and Córdoba. So I’ll have lots to write about once we get back, and lots more pictures.


Friday February 1, 2008
Last night I went to my first discoteca, and even though it was really fun, I don’t see myself going again. There was so much smoke, especially in the first one, and I’ve never been much of a partier anyway, but it was fun to get out and go dancing again. We went to Cabana, and then to this other one called the CanCan, and I personally liked the second one better. The first one had tons of smoke and no ventilation system or anything so that made it hard to enjoy. But the CanCan had air conditioning and ventilation, so you weren’t quite so congested from the smoke. We got to the first club around 1:30a, and then I got home a little after four. Since we were going to Madrid today, Emily Bourne and I left before everyone else and walked home together since we live pretty close together. When I got home, I could tell that I smelled really bad, and Brooke woke up because it reeked so much of smoke. I definitely don’t think I’ll be making a habit out of it.
This morning I woke up around 8:30a and then Brooke and I left to meet everyone at the train station at ten to go to Madrid. I was so tired, but the rest of the day, I really wasn’t all that tired, and then I napped on the train home. Kaitlyn didn’t show up though, so me and Laura paired up and we went to the Puerta del Sol to do a little bit of shopping. After that, we looked around for a while and then we went and checked out the Plaza Mayor because neither of us had seen it yet. There actually wasn’t really much to see, so we didn’t stick around for long. Then it was about time to go meet the rest of the group at the Royal Palace, so we headed over there, and as soon as Laura and I started eating lunch the rest of our group showed up too. So we ate, and then we paid to go inside the Royal Palace. This thing is massive, and it has about 3,000 rooms altogether, and most of those weren’t ever even used. Of course, the rooms you are allowed to see don’t constitute a very large percentage of that, but it was amazing how elaborate each room was. Every single room had a different design of chandelier, wall paper/decoration, color scheme, and purpose. I don’t know how anyone ever got anything done in that place, they would have been spending more time just walking from room to room. It was really impressive though, and really neat to think that that building is where kings, queens, and various other royalty lived and walked down those hallways. Even weirder to think that Queen Isabella and King Fernando, the initiators of the Spanish Inquisition, lived in that palace.