Night out in Tribunal and Plaza Mayor!

We went out for the first time in Madrid on Friday to this bar in Tribunal and then later to a club. The bar was really interesting, I don't know exactly what kind of message they were going for or who owned the bar but there were pictures and paintings of Native Americans every where. The drinks were pretty good, there were these giant plastic cups of drinks for pretty cheap. We had a lot of fun and we danced and hung out with some of the program people as well as some of the Spanish interns from the program.

We went to this club pretty close by afterwards. The club it's self was really cool and played pretty good music. It was here that I heard the techno remix of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I thought that this was a little weird but otherwise the music was pretty cool. Spanish guys are pretty forward. I think they "have" to be because Spanish women are notorious for being really hard on them but they can definitely be more aggressive in the pursuit of a dance. I just walked away though lolol We ended up getting back at like 6:30am which is apparently really typical in Spain. Everyone goes out later and then begins the journey back when the Metro reopens, around 6am. I never feel scared or anything being out late because like EVERYONE is out late. Even like old ladies walk the streets late at night.

The next day I didn't wake up until like 3:15pm, thank God I did though because I was supposed to meet my dad's friend Mariel for a quick tour of Plaza Mayor at 4pm. It was really, really cool! She took me to this indoor market called Mercado de San Miguel. Here is an example of one of the counters:

Basically, they sell like wine, cheese, olives (stuffed with EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE i.e. fish, cheese, peppers, etc), toasted bread with things on top of it, and even more.  It definitely reminded me of something my Aunt Jenn would totally love. Jenn, if you're ever in Spain, let me know, you need to go here!

We also visited Plaza Mayor and saw some other really cool statues and monuments. All of them had really interesting but totally weird stories. There was this one about a noble man who fell in love with this servant woman his dad forbade him from marrying her and sent her back to the town she came from. After the dad died, the man went and found the woman, married her, and she became pregnant. Later they find out that the dad was having relations with the woman's mother aaaaaaaand the man and the woman were really half brother and sister! Wooops.

There was also this really cool fountain that we took a picture in front of. Apparently it was really hard to make because the horse is standing on it's two back legs (engineers/physics peeps can probably explain better but basically they had to figure out a way that it wouldn't just fall forward). Here is a pic of most of the group and the statue:

Yay!

I'm going to see Biutiful, this movie with Javier Bardem, tonight. Hopefully it's good :)