getting to madrid

gotta love public, mass transportation.

amber and i took the bus to get the train. while we did experience the bus deciding to terminate early (and really obnoxiously, only a few stops before the station), we easily made it to the train station.
and while we did ask which platform we needed to be on, i clearly didn't double check the train. so we ended up on a slightly different commuter train than we needed. but luckily, a nice businessman on the train helped us correct our mistake. gotta appreciate being able to use the internet on the train in that case, because he was able to look up where we had to get off, which train to take back, the platform, and time. awesome. so we did that, and got to the airport.

got our passports checked and through security. amber was hungry and wanted mcdonalds since that would be familiar. only then she was upset that it wasn't the same. well, it's pretty close. my mcnuggets really didnt seem at all different, but whatever.

waited for our gate to be released and then flew to madrid. we made it in time to find the metro, which was great so that we could travel into the city for our hostel for a total of 4 euro instead of 30 by taxi. was a little confused when i asked where the metro was, because the answer in spanish did not make any sense, but no worries, it was easily found. i love well done sign-age. i really appreciate it. (although i had to briefly remind myself that their arrows point downward for forward.)

The metro did involve taking three lines, but that was no problem. Once on the last leg of the trip, you could tell we were amongst those going out for the evening - being a friday and all.

Also appreciated the hostel's wonderful directions printed on the reservation. Not only were the metro directions clear, but the walking from the stop was spot on. And as a bonus not far at all. Excellent.

Checked in a bit past 2 am and all was well. Checked out a map and did a little planning and deciding for what we wanted to do. but i was super tired and wanted to sleep.

Went to sleep and that was fine. I put my headphones in because one chick was sort of snoring. And i could hear amber laughing about it, but i was super tired and wanted to sleep. which i was until, that chick displayed that she was legit crazy. This chick is a loud sleeper--more of a moaning than snoring. and then got up all confused thinking she was in the restroom only she was still in our room. 2 french girls, normal, were attempting to help her figure this all out. but it was the middle of the night and i was not happy to be awake from this crazy chick. and definitely did not feel like it was my responsibility to try to assist her crazy self.

consequently in the end we didnt wake up when we wanted to and missed the continental breakfast. but that's okay.