july

7/1:

i woke up this morning and booked my flight to berlin! 11:30 am, july 10th, madrid to berlin! hoozah! kinda expensive, not the best airline, but a plan! cant wait! berlin will be amazing.

anyway, after that i woke caitlin up for breakfast. then we got dressed and walked to the prado. unfortunately she was suffering from some jetlag, dehydration, and bad orange juice (for breakfast) so we never actually made it inside. she was actually pretty sick, so we found some shade and chilled for an hour or so... and then decided we might as well head back to the hostel. she could sleep for a few hours and i could do my own thing.

i walked down towards gran via and chueca, and discovered that madrid´s gay pride festival was begining tonight! there were people everywhere, and bars, and kegs being filled, and taps being set up, and stages and decorations! having been sad about missing the gay pride parade in chicago this past sunday, i was really happy to find a madrileno substitute!

i went back and woke cait up, but she was still tired. i worked out for an hour and a half and woke her up again. i was eager to show her the places i had discovered. we walked towards puerta del sol (which was packed by that point, beacause of the festival) and we shared a jarra of sangria at plaza mayor. afterwards we had some tapas and headed back.

we were planning on going out but i am having some major problems with my hip (in addition to my ever-present knee problems...damnit why am i a 72 year old grandma. seriously...). it started bothering me in lisbon on saturday, and i ignored it. now it is really bad... seems to be not in the right place. so i am not going out and hoping that tomorrow it will be better. we are hoping to switch our hostel reservation in seville so we can spend an extra day here and do all the things we had planned on doing today...we´ll see..

okok goodnight.