Monday, August 2, 2010

Hello Oviedo! Goodbye Madrid

I've got horrible luck with cameras. As if Jesus doesn't want me to document this trip for some reason. This time I feel the worst about though because it could have been prevented. I was leaving a club, which wasn't even busy yet, so I knew for sure my camera was right where I left it, but once you start to leave they make you leave, and stay out. So, I realized as I was walking out the door that I forgot my camera, and turned around to go back, but they wouldnt let me back in. Even when I explained to them, they were just big assholes about it. And I was willing to pay the cover fee again and everything, but they refused. So, I'm VERY very bummed. Madrid definitely had its highs and lows. We went to a pub crawl the first night, which turned out to be an absolute failure. We left after the 2nd bar because it was so lame. But Saturday was much better. After sleeping in until 11am, we went to meet up for a walking tour, with an extremely awkward tour guide, after the tour ended, at about 3, we went with a group from the tour and had beers and tapas. Which, by the way, I love tapas. We got paella, potatoes, bread + ham, and mozarella balls. And I chowed down. We then mosied around the town, picked up a bottle of wine for 2.50 euro, and walked to a ginormous park and kicked it in the 100 degree weather. The wine got way too hot for me to handle. We chilled with an Aussie and a guy from Chicago, who were both pretty cool. After that, I met up with Alyssa and Matt, who, if I haven't told anyone yet, both went to UO and have been traveling around Europe as well and they know Rachel, and we went to the Prado museum and the sophia (?) museum. AND I got to see real picasso and Dali art firsthand, real thing. fo sho. hahah. Sooo, after all the museumish, we were absolutely exhausted, and went back to the hostel to shower and get changed to go meet up with a bunch of people at another hostel. We played King's cup, and then we went to the outrageously priced (20 euro) club, which was 7 stories high, and were having a good time up until the point that my camera was no longer in my possession, and rachel was sick was too much to drink. I'm really bummed about the pictures, because we met a lot of awesome people, and I had taken a lot of awesome pictures from last night. GAY. at least I'm good about uploading them every other time, so all my pictures up until the point we went out that night were uploaded. And, as crazy as it seems, I need to get another camera. I'm now where I will be staying for a month and I want people to see my temporary home, as well as Italy and Greece after the program. But in terms of budget now, I'm very scared, because I'm waaay behind budget, because of these damn camera incidents, and I think I just need to go have a really good cry because of how stressed out I am. good day.

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