Casa Alberto

The day began literally as yesterday ended, I think Erin and I will take time getting used to Hostel sleeping (i.e. HEARING people come in at 6 and 7 am), therefore last night did not result in a lot o' sleep. The Hostel is a little too Youthesque, aka, people sleep all day just to "pub crawl" starting*** at 1 am. Its like their isn't a beautiful city here, just the inside of discotechnos and the bottom of shot glasses, terrible. But, today was a "New Day" - Will I am, and it began strongly. We visted a supermarcado, but an Asian one, and it resulted in great fun, hunting for a 10 euro minimum of items, including bland muffins, lays chips, digestive chips (aka cookies, its British), rando juice, baguette, and 1.5 L Sprite (which was the best choice).

But, following our Mandarin/Spanish/English encounter at the market, we set out on a monumentous trek. We literally walked ALL day, and saw everything on our side of the town. Although it was exhausting, it was fantastic. We meandered in streets, walked through gardens, chatted with a pleasant older couple from Arizona, had some sangria in the park, and even visted the FREE-99 art museum (I think its free because most people in Madrid are sleeping at that time, i.e. siesta). We have a picture of one of the sites we saw today in Retiro park (this is NOT our picture, we will not be uploading new ones until we get Erin's camera uploader thingy).

We did actually take a pic in front of this, thanks to our couple from Arizona, who by the way kept creeping out of NOWHERE the rest of the day, like EVERYWHERE.

We also got go inside a nice older Catholic church. Again the picture is one from the Internet, and

I don't think that we have any personal ones (Erin snapped one but it may be kinda dark, and the outside view is a little distant), but of course it was really pretty. The church sits above the museo and is really picturesque.

At the end of our day, we returned to near our Hostel to look for something to eat, and ended up at a nice Tapas place (picture at top, and the title of this entry). The staff spoke good English and we order some great food, and even tried their Vermouth on tap..yes Vermouth on tap. It's odd, but apparently it's really commonplace. It wasn't too bad, but I couldn't drink it often.

Hopefully we'll be able to continue to add more entries, but our friend from Colombia who had the outlet converter has just left, and the one we bought before we left of COURSE doesn't work, but we'll try and figure something out, and as soon as we get the uploading device, we'll have real pictures of us and where we were fo sho! (and btw unlike Erin I don't like to proof-read my stuff so I apologize for errors).