Hola un vez mas. Let's see where I left off. I am probably not going to be able to get in everything again but that's okay! Let's see. So I left off on the plane with me having my first legal drink, which was some cheap white wine but whatever. I sat next to this girl Lauren and she's super fun and HILARIOUS. The food was mediocre, and they put on the movie "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps". Clearly that movie did not do very well in theaters because it was being played already on a Spanish airline. Iberia was fine, it wasn't anything special, but it was comfortable and enough. I thought the flight attendants were really nice and came back and offered a lot of things several times which was helpful. Of course, my headphones broke on the plane. So now, I either need to buy some new ones somewhere here in Granada or... survive off of the airplane ones. Not sure how those will suffice but we will see. Anyway. I tried to sleep but I couldn't which is fine, so I watched the OC on my computer (the one disk I happened to leave in it) and I read my Spanish phrasebook (which in all reality did not help at all). We were getting to Madrid around 8 am (Madrid time) but the weird thing was it was not light out. I was freaking out because it just did not make sense to me that it was STILL dark at 8 am.. but then I thought about it and realized Madrid is probably farther back in the timezone that the city is in, as opposed to Chicago which is at the very front of CST. Thus, Madrid gets light later. Anyway. We had a few hour layover and I had to lug my huge bags/2 coats all around Barajas airport which was a chore. It's safe to say I was quite warm. We got through customs and stuff and our connecting flight didn't have a gate so a bunch of us sat at this small sandwich restaurant called "Rodilla" (pienso?). I got a bocadillo (MOST DELICIOUS SANDWICHES IN THE WORLD. Ham and cheese on a baguette type bread. Delicious). We sat around and chatted and stuff and eventually got up and found our connecting gate and went to wait for a while. The plane was late boarding (I am finding that as they say, Spaniards are always 10 minutes late at least with everything), but we all eventually got on and took off out of there. I was exhausted so I fell asleep for the 45 minute plane ride, but woke up in time to see us landing in BEAUTIFUL Granada. Granada is a city completely surrounded by mountains (including the Sierra Nevada). The airport is tiny, so they had to bring stairs to the airplane, and this is the view we got when getting off.
Ugh ok lies the picture won't upload right now but I WILL upload more tomorrow and I will continue to blog and promise that these posts won't be tiny!
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YESS!! It was Rodilla!! We had one near our school in Madrid and used to go there ALL.THE.TIME! They have awesome sandwiches and salads- definitely a good spot for lunch!
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