Okay so La Arribada-
We get to this town and its FILLED with people, ALL of them dressed as if they are from when Christopher Colombus sailed the ocean blue. However, Tevia and I realized that this time period is open to interpretation seeing as we saw people dressed as pilgrims, pirates, medieval peasants, people from B.C., people from the 1800's, you know.. just anything that looked like it was from the past. It was hilarious. Vendors lined to streets with any kind of delicious food you could imagine and tons of little trinkets and jewelry and whatever. We walked around for several hours, got a beer, walked around a little more, ran into some of the boy's friends from school, and realized we were the only foreigners in this festival hahaha. As the night fell, eating turned to drinking and everyone started the party. We drank in the streets, in bars, went to a nightclub, ran into other friends from Galicia, danced, talked, met new friends who have invited us back to Galicia already and general had quite a few memorable adventures. Tevia, Chrissy, and I were mind blown to say the least. At 7 am we stumbled back to the Mercedes which Adolfo had conveniently parked in front of his ex-girlfriends house that overlooks the water in Bayona- amazing. Seeing as everyone had quite a bit to drink the plan was to sleep in the car for a while until we were ready to drive back to Vigo. So the five of us piled in to this car, mind you its freezing outside, and attempted to sleep. Didn't work. Pablo was snoring, Adolfo deemed it necessary to play a few techno songs before we went to bed, I was in the center seat aka the most uncomfortable, had the fidgets, and already was feeling hungover...
Somehow or another I fell asleep around 8 and awoke at 11 to a woman banging on the windows of the car and yelling at us in spanish hahaha. We are all so confused and disoriented and all of a sudden Adolfo realized it was his ex-girlfriends mom!! Great. So he jumped out of the car and left the door open so we could hear what she was saying... "There are beds in the house kids, get inside!! There are beds inside!!" hahahahha- turns out she wasn't mad at all but wanted us to sleep in the house rather than the driveway. Adolfo turned down the offer seeing as his ex had a new beau also in the house haha so the mom ends up bringing out about 15 blankets for us in the car and like 10 nice throw pillows. This moment was absolutely hilarioussssssss watching her come out to give us blankets and I don't think I have ever laughed so hard. The whole situation was sooo randommmmmmmmm I can't even explain it hahahah- this story will for sure go down in the books. Anyways, after another hour or so the boys thought it good to go back home now so we folded up the blankets and headed back to Vigo to pack up our stuff.
Pablo's sweetheart dad drove us to the train station through the beautiful Galician countryside. I really do love love love this part of Spain and the whole trip was suchhh an adventure. The train ride back was nice and smooth and I got to sleep and we passed through some amazing scenery on the way back to Madrid. Everything was incredible. GALICIA=SUCCESS. Not enough good things to say about it...
Anyway, back to my MADRID. Last week was relaxed. Lots of school and lots of meeting up with friends for drinks/coffee whatever. I did however find out this week that MANU CHAO, my favorite musician, filmed a music video in my FAVORITE bar in Malsaña called Palentino hhahahah. It really is like full circle my life.. I live in Malasaña because of Manu Chao and my favorite bar without knowing before is in his music video for "me llaman calle". Loco. Circles, circles, circles en mi vida...
here is a link to the video.. you can more or less see the bar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZWXUfIyIs
This past weekend I was in Sevilla and Cordoba which was also absolutely full of adventures (of course) which will come in the next blog. Parents are also here right now!! WAHOOOOOO
ps- here is a link to all my pictures, just copy and paste it:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2097077&id=1016283261&l=a551a7939e
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