While I'm still on my own.

Sorry for the lack of updates I have had little to no acess to internet since Friday. today is the first day I've really  gotten the chace to settle in my Apartment I dont really know where to begin so ill just do my best to recall what went on in as best chronological order as I can.

Cody and I had planned on waking up early Thursday morning to get some of the free continental breakfast at our hostal, we ended up waking up around 1230. After missing breakfast and not having food we decided we would eat at the first restuarant we found. I never did learn the name of the place we ate or what bulding was even responsible for the food we ate but it was all very good. A waiter seated us in nice tables and chairs outside on the street and kindy brought us water. 

I couldnt find a menu and the only thing i understood was que quieren comer? which meant what would y'all like to eat. recalling the word chicken from my attempts to learn spanish before I came here I responded with pollo. with that his face lit up and he knew exactly what to bring me. He brought out the tastiest, juiciest grilled chicken I have ever had in my entire life. It also came with fries that I unfortnately did not get to enjoy because the salt lid was not on  all the way. I'd like to think it was an accident but i cant help but to think someone had left it that way on purpose. He also brought out bread which I was excited for. Except when I got the bill I found out that not only is water not free in Europe neither is the not so complementary bread. The bill or la cuenta ended up being 28 euro's, Lesson learned!

Euphoria started to set in as my food digested and city exploring began. Once again there was no plan. Cody and I began to walk in a random direction.We went through many more narrow corridors and the streets that were bustling with peddlers of various knick knacks and art. The entire atmosphere was electric to say the least. I bought a couple things regalos  (gifts)
 and we were on our way to the to see the rest of the city. We found an amazing cathedral that was impossibly old and ridiculously big as well as many many other unique buildings and structures. One thing I wasnt expecting was the wild varietied and spectacular flora and trees that are here. We saw trees with trunks bigger then a house, trees with purple leaves, hundred year old palm trees, tree that smelt good, trees that smelt bad, trees that grew lemons, trees that grew oranges and most amazingly trees that grew trees.  --------------------------------------------------------------->
We were going to visit the gardens but a huge rain could loomed overhead that had us promptly heading back to our new home on calle Sierpes for the night.

Friday was the day we finally got to meet up with everyone at the hotel fernando III. We check out of the hostal (which really was just a goodbye) and headed towards the hotel. We were clearly the first ones there because they werent really sure what to do with us. We ended up being taken to the hotel across the street called the Rey Alfanzo. It was extrememly odd. (I wish my phone hadn't died) we were taken up an elevator in the lobby and through a corridor up a couple of steps into another elvator where we preceded to  go back down a floor then after that we went through another corridor down a couple mores steps took a couple more turns and we were finaly  there. It made no sense why a hotel would have such a convoluted way to get to a room. We just went with it and enjoyed the spectacle. Eventually the strange trip lost its charm because when we got there the room was so new It hadn't even been prepared to live in yet so we had to keep coming back to check on it.

It was 1230 by the time we were finally all settled in. After not being able to take a shower in the hostal for two days due to the no hot water and low water pressure, the first thing i checked out was the bathroom. I was excited by how nice everything looked and how clean and perfect everything was, that is untill i saw the shower. Then I was in awe. It was all black stone and it had the very biggest shower head I had ever seen in my entire life. My curiosity got the better of me and I had to touch it and see how it worked. I found the handle to turn on the shower, I looked up at the huge shower head to watch the water rain down all over the floor and pulled the handle up. It turns out this was one of those suuuuper fancy showers with not one but two shower heads, the second being the kind that you can move around and aim at your self. It just so happend to be aimed right at the door where i was peaking in and this hotel didnt have a single issuse with water pressure what so ever. I was shocked as well as completely and utterly drenched in a matter of half a second. Cody and I laughed untill our bellies ached at just how rediculous that whole series of events was..Other then that there were no incidents and  we took a nap untill it was time to  go to the group meeting at 5