Day 2: Madrid, Spain

Boarding my flight to Madrid was more than exciting. All of the different faces, languages and apperances! Next to me are two women. One with half sleeve tattoos, short spikey pink hair and piercings. The other....a nun. I was so tempted to ask her how long shes been "nunen" it up! Although I can not understand most of it, I love hearing all the different languages being spoken all around me.

I make my decent into Madrid over some Spanish mountain sides. On this seven and a half hour flight I have watched two movies, Cedar Rapids and Sucker Punch, and consumed three bottles of wine splits. Two red, one white. Looking out the window as we land, I see hills of Spanish country side. Lots of vineyards and I'm sure other types of produce farms. Its beginning to set in. The surreal feeling that I'm in another country.

Maria, my very beautiful flight attendant, definatly got to know me on this flight. I was the only one drinking on this dead head flight. As we touched down she sat in her assigned chair in the asile. I quickly jotted down in big letters "CAN I GET SOME WINE FOR THE ROAD? POR FAVOR!" Unfortunatly I recieved no wine, but got a good laugh out of her.

After about an hour of being misled in every direction, in my search for the currency exchange desk, I finally gave up and met Maggie, my cousins roommate, at the subway station. the subway here is called the "metro." The weather is similar to that of California weather. Sunny and mildly warm with a cool breeze. Theres no air conditioning at the house I'm at but thats easily fixed with a cool breeze from open doors and windows. I met one of Maggie and Kristin's roommates. Her name is Cris. She's an average height brunet from the Canary Islands. I'm currently staying in a house with seven women. Two French, one Spanish, one Russian, one Mexican and two American. I'm off to go for a walk with Maggie down the street to a grocery store and possibly a little bar.