Madrid

God I feel like I have been gone from Sevilla forever. Last Friday my sports interest group went to Madrid for the weekend. Friday we toured this sort of like YMCA gym...I thought it was really weird we were touring it until I found out it's where the olympic team practices. It was ok, it was basically just a really big gym.  Then we went off on our own for lunch, and afterward met up to tour the Real Madrid fútbol stadium. It was so much and really cool.

                                      Alicia and I at the stadium

                                              Some old jerseys of the team

                                    MVP awards and others

                                                Team bench

 I forgot to take a picture of the guy....but it was this spanish guy who played for the real madrid basketball team, and he was the first spaniard to play in the NBA... for the Portland Trail Blazers!

                                      Me down on the field

                                                 Where they do press conferences.

After the stadium we all went back and napped and got ready for the night. We went out to dinner and then hung out in the hostel for a while and went to this club called Joy which cost 20 euro to get into...what a rip off. But it was actually very fun.

                                Alicia me paige and cate in the hostel

                                                 Wild club Joy

The next day we had to be up at 10 in the morning to go to the Botanical Gardens. They were beautiful! And the tour guide and I chatted about the red wood trees in California because I was the only one who lived on the west coast.

                                             Interest Group at the gardens

                                              Me, Alicia and Kyle

                                 Couldn't figure out how to fix this. Me with my large iced coffee since we didn't get home until about 4 in the morning and had to be up by 9:30...

Right after the gardens we went on a 2 hour walking tour of the city. I actually really like Madrid. We basically just saw a bunch of plazas but it's a cool city. It rained a little bit but only for a few minutes. After the walking tour we went and had lunch, and then went to Reina Sofia, a museum with lots of Picasso and also Salvador Dali. I got to see one of Picasso's most famous paintings the Guernika. After that long day we went back to the hostel, napped, got ready for the night. Went to dinner at this place where if you ordered a 6 euro mojito you got a bunch of tapas with it for free. It was prettttyyyy delicious. Then we went to this club called Kapital, and it was 7 stories! We sang karaoke and had a great time dancing and hanging out.

                                                     Picasso's Guernike

                                             Dali...

                                             Another Picasso

Hanging in the hostel before the night.

The next day we went to this cool street market where I bought a friendship bracelet and a Real Madrid hat. Then we had a lot of time to kill until our flight to the Canary Islands so we decided to see a movie...I saw Country Strong and it was AMAZING. Then we went to the airport and our flight for the Canary Islands was at 10:30 p.m.