The weekend

Two weekends ago, I went to a bullfight, but since I'm writing a reflection on that for my class, I'll post about it later. This most recent weekend was pretty fun two though!

My Saturday during the day ended up being somewhat disappointing, but I had a good time wandering around a little anyway. I had planned to go with some friends to a museum for the blind where all the exhibits are tactile somehow, and it's supposed to be interesting even if you're not blind. When we got there, however, it was closed....So we got something to eat at one of the many kebab places. They are kind of fast-foody, but they are not all the same chain so it's not too bad....but I've learned to love the food there. I normally get a durum (as do most of my friends) which is a wrap with chicken, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and some kind of sauce. Soo good, especially when it comes with fries and a coke.

Saturday night, my senora and her boyfriend invited my roommate and me to go out with them after dinner. They took us to a flamenco bar where we watched everyone dancing. It was neat because it wasn't like a performace, it was just a regular bar with a regular dance floor with regular people dancing flamenco. There were even a few people wearing traditional flamenco clothes. Watching all those people made me want to learn flamenco haha, maybe I'll look for classes once I get back to Davis haha...If I had decided earlier, I might have tried to look for classes here, but I think it's too late now. Anyway, after we went there, we went next door just to check it out, and it was really cool! Inside, they had made it look like you're inside a ship, so it was all wooden everywhere with an upper deck, and ground floor, and a lower deck, and in the lower deck, there were little windows around the edges with fish in them that looked like portholes. My roommate's favorite part was the chandelier that was perpetually swinging so it seemed like the boat was actually rocking. My favorite part of that place, though, is that it seemed like an actual spanish club as opposed to a club in spain where mostly tourists and students go. We want to go back so we can take pictures.

Sunday was a pretty fun day too! We went to Aranjuez which is a city about an hour south of Madrid by train. The three main points about Aranjuez are: The Palace, the garden, and the strawberries. The palace was really interesting - each room was decorated differently and they were all ornate somehow, but in a different way...unfortunately I didn't have my camera, but we weren't allowed to take pictures in there anyway. The garden may have been the highlight of the trip, but only because it was the most mischievous. Right near there entrance, there was a fountain that didn't have water, and there were big huge rocks near the edge. Naturally, my friend and I climbed on them to take pictures. After we had gotten down and were moving on, a very serious guard came walking up to us. "Teneis que salir. Esto no es un parque de atracciones. Es un jardin real" "You have to leave. This is not an amusement park. This is a royal garden" The man was not happy and he escorted us out haha. Eventually, my friend and I decided to go back in to try to find the rest of out group, and we made it in ok, although we were wary of the guard who may have recognized us. After we had found our group, we noticed the guard again, and then again a few minutes later...ahh it seemed like he was following us, so we decided to leave for good. At the end, we decided to get some strawberries, since we had heard that they're supposed to be good from there. A waiter at a restaurant told us we should get the small ugly ones, we chose those from the stand/store, and it was 8 euros for one little box that was maybe 20 square inches....they tasted pretty normal, and when we told our senora about it later, she said we got gyped haha and that all strawberries come from there. Haha, ohh well, at least they were tastey.

So that's pretty much the weekend! Now I have to write 1000 words about a painting.