Madrid

So aqui estoy en España! it is so beautiful here!!!
So.. I got to the airport on Sunday morning. Left this guy for 6 weeks. Good thing for skype :)

Got to JFK at 6ish and left for Madrid at 7:30. there were about 10 other people in the program on my flight. It was a good flight! I felt like they fed us every hour (not true, but thats what it felt like). I slept a tiny bit, but you can't really sleep very well on a plane. Ever. especially if there is a baby sitting behind you. He didn't cry that much and he was SUPER cute! so it was ok.

Anyways.. Meg, Emily and I stayed together in Madrid. We were seriously like 2 minutes away from the plaza de España! It was so cool! We actually got off the metro and sat there for like an hour before we could go to our apartment. It's a pretty busy place.

So We stayed awake all day! I may have dozed off a few times, maybe there were people staring at us at dinner wondering why we were dozing off. No big deal.
We also visited El palacio real and one of the most beautiful cathedrals I've ever seen!

  Emily (some brighton people may know her as bug), me, and Catherine in front of the palace.
We went on a tour. Holy cow!! every room so ornate and beautiful! I could live there

 Look at that ceiling!!

A beautiful cathedral!! 

We also went to the museo nacional del Prado.

This museum is probably the largest museum i've ever been to! and luckily for us, Moday was free museum day. So the palace and the prado were both free (YAY!) 

We only wanted to spend 45 minutes in there because we wanted to go to bed, but like I said. LARGEST MUSEUM EVER! I couldn't have run through everything in 45 minutes. 

So we walked everywhere and were super tired, went back to our little apartment and slept, and slept, and slept..

Yeah 16 hours. probably the longest i've ever slept in my life. I was on the top bunk (which was really high). I didn't want to get down to look at the time, so I just waited for someone else to wake up. When they finally did we made bets as to what time it actually was. I came closest! I said 12. 1! Can you believe that?

So when we did get out and moving we explored more of the city. Madrid is a beautiful place! a lot of people! reminds me of NYC. 

We went to Ell Parque del Retiro. It's kind of like Central Park big and SO beautiful!! 

 This glass building was beautiful!!

 So outside the glass building was a pond with turtles in it. I sat down next to a guy from Cuba feeding bread to the turtles. He was nice and shared his bread with us and picked up a turtle for me. ha ha.  I held that turtle! Crazy experience!  Pics will come later. 

This is a statue of Rey Alfonso I believe. This was also right next to a beautiful pond. where pirates just happened to be rowing by. No big deal. 

 Here's another cool edificio. It's in the middle of a round about. 

And here's probably one of the best views of Madrid we could find. Yep. Its beautiful!

 Here's a temple. We were too late to go inside, but i'm sure it was beautiful too!

So this morning we left Madrid and headed to take the train to Oviedo. it was a 5 hour train ride, but oh my goodness! so beautiful! (lets play count how many times Corie says beautiful. Sorry! I'll try to use more vocab)

It's not everyday your train ride takes you into the clouds. COOL!

Look at the cute little city! CUTE! 

So I made it to Oviedo. I've been here for 4 hours. I met my mom for the next 6 weeks. Her name is Clara. She's an older single lady, has 2 grown children and she is a cook at a senior home. Her cooking is AMAZING!!  I'm excited to get to know her more. 

I'm almost excited to overcome jet lag. Hopefully sooner than later.

Anyways.. Here's to an amazing 6 weeks en España!