2 ice creams later....

I say 2 ice creams later because as Emily and I were getting ready for bed last night we thought that we had experienced at least a weeks worth of Madrid in one day. We got up yesterday with a loud bang on our door from our madre making sure we were awake. Don't worry, we definitely were after that loud wake up call. Thankfully we had about 12 hours of sleep. Little did we know we were going to be just as tired after we were through with all the days activities.

We went to take our placement test (yes, on a Sunday) at 11:00 at our school. Emily and I both tested into the advanced courses and are taking the same classes . We have 2 different professors for our grammar class but we are in the same room for our culture class. We start at 9:00 to 10:30 and then go from 11:00-12:30 and the rest of the day is (typically ours)

However, yesterday we took the placement test and then went with a group of people to eat our packed lunches in the park! Sadly, Emily and I couldn't identify the meat on our sandwich... BUT our apple sure was delicious. We stopped at this little ice cream stand in the park and Emily got a finger shaped popsicle and I got a foot shaped ice cream. I know you're all thinking, why did Courtney get an ice cream shaped like a foot? She hates feet! While this is true... it looked scrumptious. I understand how odd this sounds but it was basically a strawberry milkshake shaped like a foot on a stick. This was ice cream number one.

We came back home after that and rested for half an hour and then left 40 minutes early to meet up with our group at this location that none of us had been before. They said it should only take 20 minutes but we wanted to give ourselves extra time. We came across some other members of our group along the way and attempted to fight our way through the metro to our stop. After the 3rd or 4th circle we went in we got a phone call from another group member wandering where we were. The bus was leaving. we were only 8 minutes late and at this point on the same street as the bus. We turned the corner and watched it drive away. Needless to say the 6 of us were not very happy but we caught up with your group and went on a very long, but beautiful tour of Madrid. We ended the tour by going as a large group to this restaurant where we ate tortilla de patatas. The only way I know how to explain this is a deep dish omelet with potatoes and occasionally peppers and onions. We met some Spanish friends there that we met at church while we were on our tour.

We were walking back to the metro from dinner at 10:00 pm (completely normal time to eat dinner in Spain) when we came across Gelato. I had cafe gelato which is the closest thing to coffee I've had since I've been here. This is ice cream round 2.

It was a very long day, but great nonetheless!