El fin.

1. Yes, I believe we got everywhere.

2.si

3.Claro

4.
a. When there's a statue of don quijote, you just have to get a picture...
b. Because there are mcdonald's everywhere and they are always part of the walk...
c. Because fountains are just so purtty.

Que lastima pero adios, me despido de ti Madrid y me voy.

1. Yes

2.Yes

3. Yes

4. Grand via is where the best shopping is I realized. Everywhere I looked I saw some article of clothing that I needed to have. I wanted to go down the street that was forbidden but I realized getting raped might not be worth it. Sad and glad to be done with you Madrid walks, you've taken me to a bunch of cool new places. I'll never forget what we had.

Siete y Fin

1. Yes.

2. I ordered an ice cream, I offered to take someone's picture, and I said goodbye to a friendly old man. That makes three, so yes.

3. Sí, hablabamos en el Español durante el paseo.

4.

Wow, wicked sweet hair, huh?

Fancy McDonalds... yes, I'm lovin' it!

Who honestly puts a flowing liquid symbol and 'Cibeles'

on an add for alcoholics?? I'm just saying...

El último.

1. Sí sí sí.
2. Por supuesto. One conversation was with an adorable old grandpappy who wanted me to snag a picture of him and his mujer, whom he later told me is from France.
3. Sííííííííííííííí.

4.  Herrrr ya go.
I looooved the buildings on this street. Every thing was muy elegante y fancy-nancy and all, and it just felt like a classier part of town.
Then Katí y yo purchased a mango-coco-fresa smoothie....great life decision.
Also we saw the Temple of Debod and surrounding park area, which was marvelous. The sun was out, the people were frolicking, the birds were singing, the couples were snogging.....really, fun was had by all.
Funny story occurred on the train ride home: after spending hours in line at Chamartin station to get our Eurail reservations, we were so stoked to be heading home. We had some lovely conversation and I did a sudoku puzzle to pass the time. All was well, until we reach La Garena stop (the closest one to Alcalá). Some crazy hombre started waving his hands and saying "hallo, hallo, HALLO", and I, thinking I was being sly, replied in Spanish "no entiendo, blah blah". But alas, brilliant plan was foiled when he said "I heard you speaking English". Shucks. Then I ignored him and he hit on Katí for the whole 10 minute ride to Alcalá, begging her to let him call her sometime. We literally jumped off the train and all but ran away, until we recognized some black suited men in front of us as the missionaries, so we awkwardly ran up to them. What a day. 

Mas helado por favor

1.Si, did I really know what all of the places were? No, but I walked by them all.
2. Si, I even fake asked for a picture to be taken to get my last one in.
3. Si mas o menos.
4. My pictures are of:
Our absolutely delicious stop for 1 euro icecream. I must say the addition of a stick of kitkat is a nice touch but a little random.
Adorable old men playing bocce ball in the park. I love the way they dress.
A plaza I thought looked cool.

Going all the way to Spain for a McFlurry? Por supuesto

1. yes, and even on to the temple de Debod (just trying to make it full circle ya know)
2. technically yes
3. i think we did pretty dang good
4.
that building w/ the cool roof on Gran Via

I like me some MJ

How do you say "Spring has sprung" in Spanish? Because it definately has


cool story: nothing super exciting happened, we did see a group of mayores playing bocce ball. I got a toblerone McFlurry, when in Spain right?

The last of them!

1. Yes we did. Hallelujah!
2. Por supuesto
3. Claro
4. This is the prettiest and most fancy Mickey D's I have ever been in in my life. I'm sensing a McDonald's theme in my posts...

Hello awesome church. I'm not quite sure how exactly this place works, because I'm not sure what part is the church, however it is still cool.

Just Adri shaking her thing in the mirrors at the place where we got the most delicious smoothie of my life! Note to self: mango, strawberry and coconut is DIVINE!


So sidenote/funny story: Going home (later at night because of our ticket-buying fiasco, but that's another story) Megan and I encountered this man from South Africa who felt the need to talk to us (darn those English-speaking Africans who we can't play dumb with or ignore!). This man could not take a hint that I DID NOT WANT TO HAVE COFFEE WITH HIM (what part of I can't hang out alone or date people while on my program or I don't drink coffee do you not understand man?). And he also did not understand that in order to talk on the phone you need to have one, which I don't (at least that's what he thinks). So Meg and I high-tailed it out of there and seeing salvation ahead (in missionary form) decided to talk to these elders that we do not know and probably thought we were creepy weird BYU girls. Probably one of the most awkward conversations in Spanish yet. Sorry missionaries-I was not trying to hit on you, merely trying to escape the grasps of the creeper Afican.

The Last Madrid Walk! Que lastima!

1. Yup. All the sights were seen, especially easy as it only covered one street.
2. I forgot to go out of my way to talk to people, but if I remember correctly I did have some brief natural interaction with 2 or 3 native.
3. Yes sir. We did great on this one.

4. Adri, Hayley and I went on this walk together. It was SUCH a glorious day, I couldn't have asked for more. We stopped in at a super cute internet cafe, and were tempted so much by the fruit smoothies that we caved. It was a piece of heaven, and worth every centavo of the 3.95 price tag. We made it to the Plaza de Espana, and I actually wish we could have had more time to explore the surrounding streets. I had a great time and was more than happy to have the excuse to be out and about in the sun.

Plaza de Espana was such a romantic spot, we had to contribute what we could.

Monument to our very own Cervantes

Haha. Super awkward candid shot.

this is HOWIE do it.

Well, it was a beautiful walk down that Grand Way. We saw all the buildings we were supposed to plus hundreds more (1). We had good conversation cruising the Via and even cracked jokes. All in Spanish mind you. I felt that we were butta (3). We stopped at a really cute and tasty cafe that reminded us of the delicous sweets that can be found back home, we ordered from a stranger or in other words the waitress (2) and shared a cold pink drink of heaven(4-1). Adri wore her same shoes (4-2) and we arrived in the Plaza de España which was a dream. There were many photos to be taken in such the romantic setting. But this wasn't all serious, we also managed to capture the most awkward jumping picture ever imaginable(4-3).