A Land of Cobblestone Streets

I'm currently sitting in my new friend Daniele's apartment listening to her boyfriend play Chris Isaak (mom would love this) on his ukelele and trying not to nod off due to my less than 5 hours of sleep. The journey here was certainly interesting! I flew out of Kansas City at 10am on the 10th of September and less than 20 hours later (I'm too tired to calculate how long it all took) I arrived in Madrid on the 11th of September at 10am. 

The plane ride from KC to Chicago was pretty uneventful. I had to go to a different terminal once in Chicago, though, and in the meantime I forgot to empty my water bottle. Thankfully the security guys let me just take the bottle out and empty it, put it on the belt and walk back in again, without going through the ridiculously long line with my stuff again. I had a really long layover between that time, though, and not much to do. I was tired already, and there was not much to do. 

On the plane to Dublin, I managed to sleep enough to not hate myself, but I also spilled coffee all over the place and had to change clothes mid flight (so thankful that I brought a change of clothes with me!). Oh, and that water bottle that caused some drama earlier? I left it on the plane. Yup.

Dublin to Madrid, I had the row to myself and I lay down and slept or at least tried to. I never felt like I was actually asleep but the flight went pretty quickly so maybe? 

I got to Madrid and went to baggage claim and couldn't find the right baggage claim, then I found it, then my baggage wasn't there, then I waited in the wrong "lost baggage" area for ten minutes, then I discovered that my baggage it still in Dublin and will be until at least tomorrow. So. Again, I am thankful I packed extra clothes and essential items in my carry on. 

I left the airport and realized that it was RAINING! This was unexpected. I went to a booth to see how much it would be to take a taxi and yeah that was a little much for me so to the metro I went! Got to Daniele's apartment, in the rain, and now I'm sitting here typing this and I just discovered that Daniele knows Foxy Shazam and her friend made some of their musicals. We're going to get food soon, and then ???

Tomorrow, I'm going on a walking tour of Madrid (courtesy of Daniele's boyfriend Jesus who does that for his job! Perfecto!) And after that we'll see!