When classes were finally over, which felt like forever, we headed off to the metro-tram to head to the beach. We had to reload our metro card because we were out of trips but when we tried to reload it, it ate our 7.25 euros!...well so we thought. So we just hopped on the tram and if someone asked to see our tickets our plan was to act like stupid Americans who thought we had done it correctly. To our surprise when we sat down I counted the change we got back from the machine that "ate our money" and come to find out, it actually just turned our 10 euro bill into change...oops. Atleast we got a free metroride to the beach and avoided the metro ladies! Of course now we have fully reloaded our cards for lots of beach trips.
The beach started off pretty well, the wind wasn't too bad as long as you weren't facing that way. It was finally warm weather around 80 or so and the sun was veryyy hot when the clouds weren't covering it. But of course as the day went on, the wind picked up and it was strongg. I was dubbed MVP when I came up with the grand plan of moving to the random patch of sand that had previously been wet so it wasn't loose to blow around. It was much better than where we originally were. But we eventually gave up on the wind and fighting the sand and decided to get a refreshing pitcher of Sangria at Christina's favorite place, San Patricio.
I was so excited to finally get to go back to this place because all I could remember from our last trip was how good the Sangria and Patatas Bravas were. We ordered both and they were just as good as I remembered them. After relaxing with Sangria we headed back home to freshen up before meeting Jake and John to all go meet our intercambio friends. Our intercambios are friends with each other so it worked out nicely that we were all able to get together for tapas. Finding the place was quite the adventure as usual. We got a little turned around and after the boys basically refused to ask for directions because "they knew where we were going" I finally just walked into a store myself and asked. To our surprise, and the boys too, we were heading in the relatively correct direction just the long way around. We came to the intersection of the street and decided to try turning right to find the place. Well thank goodness we ran into Lorezno, Jake and John's intercambio because he was walking the opposite way and told us we should've turned left not right...of course.
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| San Patricio - the restaurant on the beach |
We all got a nice little table and sat down while we waited for Mai and Carlos. Mai arrived and her friend randomly saw her walk in the place and came to say hi and we invtied her to join because she was suposed to meet wiht another group of girls but there was some miscomunnitaino and they weren't able to meet. When we were all together it ended up being Me, Carlos, Jen, Mai, John, Samantha, Jake, and Lorenzo. We all split 40s which was an interesting time and tried many many tapas. We ended up hanging out for nearly 2 hours and we all practiced English and Spanish while exchanging laughs and jokes. We really lucked out with such a great group.
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| Mai, Jen, Carlos, y Yo |
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| Our cheers to Mom and Dad's anniversary! |
Upon arriving back home, Jen and I ate a yummy lasagna dinner with Gemma while watching Revenge. Gemma said she is officially hooked and can't stop watching :) While watching I finished
up some homework before heading off to bed for another fun day ahead!
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