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Alcala de Henares & Madrid...my home for 3 months on my 2005 BYU Study Abroad...

So Elise and I left to Madrid Thursday morning to drop off my luggage at Sonya's (other sister) house in Alcala de Henares. Plus we wanted to hang out with her of course! And boy was it fun! All 3 of us hadn't been together forever....way too long. We hung out downtown eating chuches and of course eating dinner at Ali Babba's - pure delight! We had to say goodbye to Sonya since she left on an excursion the next morning and Elise and I headed back to Madrid.
On Friday, we were going to go to Segovia for the day, but the train schedule was messed up so we just spent the day wandering around Madrid and refreshing our memories. Man, I forget how much I love that city!! It was fun to see everything again - Puerta del Sol, Palacio Real, Plaza Mayor, Parque del Buen Retiro, rowing boats, eating Portmans, etc. But man, I have never seen so many Americans and heard so much American English! It was actually kind of depressing....I left like I was being overrun and I'm an American myself...imagine how the Spanish feel...


This guy was asking for all sorts of money for beer and wouldn't even let you take his picture without paying!