Miles and miles

Today definitely felt like a Monday. For those of you in the US, congrats on a day off, but it turns out that Spain doesn't celebrate US holidays. So, we went to school and it was business as usual. After a quick- might I add interesting- lunch in the park, we decided to for-go our boney chicken sandwiches and eat some delicious pizza in our favorite little cafe. We of course made friends with all of the workers there so now they say "hasta luego" instead of "adios" when we leave. We hope if we go often enough, they'll give us free stuff :)

This afternoon we were bound and determined to buy postcards to send to people back home. This task is actually much more difficult than it seems. Our area of town isn't super touristy so we had to travel to Gran Via with a detour to Chueca after we walked miles around our area asking every local magazine stand where we could buy "tarjetas postales" and stamps. I also bought some beautiful prints of the lake at Retiro and the Plaza Mayor to hang in my room.

This afternoon we returned from our ridiculously long journey to find our friend Max that lead us around only a week ago back from his trip to Italy. We got to catch up and eat dinner together. He's off to the US tomorrow.

Tonight we had paella with chorizo for dinner and then--big shocker-- gelatto from our favorite little cafe. We met Caitlin and Kimberley there and had a great time just chatting. From there we spent some time in a little plaza across the street just writing our postcards and watching lots of old people play cards. It was precious.