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¡Hola chicas!
For next week, dont forget to write a short story about an experience you had while on walk #4. ¡Por favor no olvidéis! Keep up the good work :)
Muchas gracias,
Adri

Whoops

Ok better late than never.......

1. yup sure did
2. mas o menos
3. better than last time
4.

At the restaurant w/ mosaics, obviously. I think this one's Sevilla.
I just can't resist their sexy pose

We found a little stump

The 2 cutest boys sharing a skateboard. Precious

Camino Tres y las Tres Mosqueteros

We, las tres mosqueteros (Nikki, Meredith, and I; hereafter referred to as Athos, Porthos and Aramis), thoroughly enjoyed our walk through an area of Madrid that we had never before explored. In this thrilling summary of our conquest, I shall enlighten you on the greater adventures of our noble journey to overcome aforementioned task.

1. Yes, with the exception of one particularly conceiled location, we successfully navigated ourselves to all of the outlined destinations.

2. Yes, in a grand triumph over our deepest fears, we conversed in Spanish with at least three people--the woman who was not from Madrid, the amiable gelato man, and the lady who graciously pointed out that we were standing 20 feet from the street we were searching for.

3. Indeed, Spanish words seemed to flow from our lips like intermittent rainfall on a wet day in Spain.

4. My most preferred photographs:

So we ended up waiting probably a good 3-5 minutes

for this little boy to finish his water so that we could take

our pictures with the statue... what a devilish little rogue!

Aramis and Athos.

AND Gelato. Good stuff in any language.

I was really quite torn between this picture and the picture

of the "Ojalá" sign, since I use that word so much.

Finally decided that weird bathroom sinks were cooler :)

Hermano Cervantes

1. Yes indeed we did, without anything dire to report.
2. Yes we did, some of them included some creepers that hung around us forever, and others include keeper's of very adorable shops.
3. Yes! We did a lot better this time, and it got easier and easier to get used to it as time went on. Hooray!
The cutest little traditional Sweet Shope. They have really good business tactic by offering free samples. I am hooked para siempre.




Another really cute store that is in the place of an old cemetery where a lot of the great thinkers/writers of Spain's Golden Age were buried, until they were unceremoniously moved by Napoleon's hermanito
And this...this the door of the house of our own Mr. Cervantes. He lived here at some point of his life. I thought this walk was great, I really liked seeing all the different quotes along the street, and seeing the "intellectual gathering place" of Madrid's Golden Age.

I'm seeing double

1. Yes
2. Yes and to a few people I didn't want to speak to (aka men old enough to be my father and scary homeless guy with dreadlocks).
3. Sure did! Only a couple of slip ups!
4. First photo: I don't know if you can tell but the reason Riley looks so distressed is this guy was sporting a mullet with a ponytail in the back. I still can't get over how well the guys dress here but how gross their hair can be. That is one fad I'm hoping does not make its way over to North America.
Second:I loved this little flower shop we found. It had such a cute ambiance!
Third: We got to see the real sweeper man statue! The best part was recreating our original photo our first day in Spain. See if you can guess which one is a live man.

Walking through Literature

1. Yes we arrived everywhere, whether all the locations were open or not is another story.
2. But of course! How else would I buy me some food?
3. Claro. Just love trying to communicate my thoughts using broken Spanish and amazing charades skills.
4.

Well first off this mural on the wall of the building was really cool to see, it just looks like a continuation of the city. However what is more funny is the fact that we had amazing trouble locating this mural and thought that it may have been torn down. Note to us: turn around and use your eyes.

Hayley likes to strut her stuff out front of the governmental-type building (I think-doesn't it look official?). Everywhere we go it's like ANTM.

My Spanish boyfriend found in the alley leading to the restaurant with the tile murals of the different Spanish cities. I love how they even graffiti holes in walls here!

Pues nada

1. Es que no pudimos encontrar una o dos..

2. Una mujer era un poco rude. pero si.

3. Always

4. The mural was probably my fav part or the tiles at that restuarant but my camera died, so I was only able to capture these images. This area of Madrid was to my liking, and I even discovered a gelato shop con un chico que me quiera besar. La building de foreign affairs was a little breathtaking too.

Sure. I'll marry you, grey-haired man.

1. yrp.
2. yrp. employees of sorts. men who were pretty high on the creepycrazy chart. they were about 8s?
3. YRRPPEEE. so exhilarating. I didn't want to stop!
4...
     Mustard is really in right now. Though I still refuse to eat it.
     Such a cute Flower shop. Keep on flying to your dreams, little birds.
     Merely the sight/thought of Haagen Dazs forces the tongue out of its cave.

 

  

 

Numero 3

4.This picture was in the garden store. I loved all of the flowers in there!
This is when we were looking for the mural on the wall and right after someone said, ¨I bet they just painted over it,¨ someone said, ¨oh, look guys the mural.¨

This was next to the tiles on the wall for Sevilla, Granda, Cordoba, etc. I thought it was fun and random.

1. Yes, we reached all destinations even though some were closed and we could not go inside.

2. Yes, I spoke to a couple random people in the streets and a lady working at the garden.
3. Yes, we actually did really well speaking Spanish from what I remember.

3

1. si
2. si
3. si. we asked a few people directions and a boy asked for my phone number on the tren.
4. I like these photos. The sign is of a gelato shop we stumbled upon and had to try. One is of Nikki with the streetcleaner. The other of the building of foreign affairs. I love its architecture.