We walked back to the hostel and Alicia and I made last minute plans and arrangements to go to Portugal for two days before we leave. Then we got ready and went to the hostel drinking games night. We went with three guys we had met before and two new girls from cali, James our other roommate and his friend Megan.
So the main event had too many people so we were shuttled into a room which we called the leftover room. It was interesting to say the least but we made it fun.
Afterwards James and Megan led us to el tigre which is madrids best kept secret. It is a tapas bar where for six euro you get a liter beer and a plate of mixed tapas. The food was delicious and we had a blast. Then we went on the ultimate search for a kareokee bar. We finally found one and had fun even if we were the youngest people there. Alicia, Brian, and I performed a terribly wonderful version of bryans adams summer of 69.
The next day Alicia and I packed up and checked out. Brian came with us and we went and bought our night bus tickets to Portugal and stored our luggage. We had a difficult time finding the correct station but we finally made it. Afterwards we went and did free activities around Madrid. These included the blind museum and a egyptian temple.
The blind museum was interesting. Everything there was famous artwork designed for people who couldn't not see and you were allowed to touch everything, it was recommended. There was an exhibit of textured black and white photographs which I found amazing. There was also a section on major national and international monument models. That way blind people could get a grasp for what they looked like by touching them along with a voice recording. I thought that was awesome as well.
We then went to an egyptian temple that was gifted to the city of Madrid. It sound great but it was actually quite small. Brian joke that it was shipped over in a mini van. While the temple wasn't superb the park around it was and we sat around in it for quite some time. Tons of PDA though but it made people watching interesting.
We walked back towards plaza del sol with the idea of getting tapas for dnner but came across an advertisement for tacos and were instantly sold. We all had been craving Mexican food and enjoyed our baby corn tacos immensely. We then said our good byes to our lovely new friend Brian who lives in San Diego and is someone we are staying in touch with for sure. We then took the subway to the bus station.
Luckily we left when we did because we were scrambling for time and barely made our bus. I hated every minute of my night bus experience. it was terrible, but now we are in Portugal and I'm freezing which makes me worried to go home I know anything. not 100 degrees is going to be cold. We are waiting to buy our tickets back and are then going to find our hostel.
We are here for one night and two days. We take a night train to Madrid tomorrow and then fly out the morning we get in. It worked perfectly. The end of our trip is wearing on us and now Alicia is now having trouble with the bank as well. Luckily we have my credit card but our cash flow is depleting quickly. This has been the best adventure of my life but home has never sounded better.
Thankfully we have a new city to explore for a. bit. Internet is spotty here so ill write when I can.
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