Yo soy espanol, yo soy espanol!

It has successfully been a wonderful last day in Madrid. I can't believe that a month has flashed by already. One week of "vacation" in Andalucia, then one month in Salamanca! I am looking forward to a slower paced environment, but Madrid has been good to me! We ended our time here on a good note too.

We slept in this morning, packed a few of our things and headed to Sol to check some last minute things off our list. On our way, there was this PRECIOUS baby boy on the metro. He had the biggest, most vibrant brown eyes I've ever seen. We had a staring contest, no lie. He was adorable, so much so it brought a tear to my eye because it reminded me of my sweet nephews at home that I haven't seen in awhile. Well, to make things interesting when we were on the metro later on in the day that same baby was on there... weird, huh?

The first thing we checked off our list was getting "nun cookies." Let me explain. There is this convent in the heart of Madrid that has nuns that bake cookies. Well after asking 3 different people directions we finally found it. We pressed the buzzer outside the door and said "dulces" and they let you in. When we walked in we were in this dark room and walked to this different one where there was a tiny door open and all you could see was a lazy susan. But then, out of no where we heard this squeaky sounding nun start talking-precious. She spun some cookies around the lazy susan, we put our money down and spun it back. Then she came to the door which i don't think they are technically supposed to but she was the tiniest, squeakiest nun I have ever seen. Item number 1, check.

After our cookie adventure we went to "El tigre" which is a tapas bar in Cheuca. I'm not kidding when I say that they have the best tapas in Madrid. It's too bad that we only discovered it yesterday.

After our lunch we went to Retiro park one last time and laid in the park for a while. Funny story. I kept trying to lay in the grass tastefully because I had on a dress. Well... Emily looks at me and says, "oooh, look at that girl just laying there in that short dress.".... I said... "WHERE?" Oh wait... she meant me.

Then Caitlin and Kimberly met us in the park for a boat ride on the lake we sat by every day for lunch! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. I've learned that I have no talent of rowing a boat. Not possible for me, but I did try!

After our boat ride we had our new group meeting for Salamanca at our favorite Chocolateria. Then we went with our friend Stephen to get more tapas before we headed to the stadium where the futbol team in Madrid plays to watch the Spain game on the big screens outside. Little did we know how intense that was going to be! Hundreds of people outside of this stadium watching 3 mega-size screens. I thought salsa dancing was Spanishy... no no no. It didn't get any more spanishy than this! We would all jump up and down in our red jerseys saying, "Yo soy Espanol, yo soy Espanol." and a lot of other phrases that I couldn't understand. This game was much better than last weeks because WE WON! And by WE WON I mean, SPAIN WON, but this is my home for the next month right? WE WON!

I matched the players perfectly :)

Just a little taste of what the crowd was like!!

Now we are home and have to finish packing. The morning will come soon! It's going to be a busy week seeing Andalucia so I'm not sure when I'll be able to blog again. So don't be alarmed when I may not be posting my exciting stories regularly! I'll get back to you as soon as I can! ;)