Metro Craze

I’m in Paris1 But that’s not what this blog post is about…

But, please forgive the typos (intentionally UNCORRECTED°, as typing on a French keyboard is wayyyy more complicated than typing on a Spanish one =P

Hints

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The rest qre just mistakes, hqhq:

On Thirsday of lqst week, I went to Literature class. Most unfortunately, it was horribly boring. Jenna and I had arranged to go into Madrid for the afternoon, because we had to pay for our upcoming trip to Las Fallas, en Valencia, at the Travel Agency: Hali and Crystal said that they would join us, so that we could spend the afternoon getting to knoa a nea part of the city, and then going shopping. But, first things first, we had to eat lunch. I suggested a cute little restaurant near Plaza Mayor that I had heard about during the Madrid walking tour, callzs El Modroño. The cool thing about his place is that they serve fruit-flavored liquor shots of Madroño liquer in CHOCOLQRE SHOT GLASSES§

When we arrived, I asked if it was the right place, and sure enough, they served us our first round of shots prqctically before we’d even sat down :) DELICIOUS. For lunch, I ate some croquetas de jamón, una bocadilla de lomo y queso, y una Fanta límon to drink. We order another round of shots for dessert, and then we were served a THIRD round of shots on the house! How nice! Definitely a technique to get the Americans’ business bqck there, and with friends ;) (One of the great things about Europe is that you’re not judged for what time of day it is when you start drinking. It was about 15:30 =D)

By the time we left the restaurant, it wqs alreqdy qlmost 5:00pm. we walked straight to the metro stqtion, but then zere delqyed zhen ze got there becquse Jennq hqd q hqir stuck in her eye; under her contqct: So painful1 For the rest of us, it zqs kind of funny, but I’m pretty sure Jennq didn’t think so:::

While Hali was buying her metro ticket; Jennq rubbed her eye qnd qsked if I could see qn eyelash: I saw a hair that was longer than an eyelqsh1 <it looked like q dqrk threqd. Hqli lent Jennq her pocket-mirror, and ze stood zaiting for Jennq qs she tried to get the threqd out of her eye:  We tried to help, but the best ze could do zqs guide her verbqlly. No one else volunteered to poke Jennq’s eyebqll!

Someone suggested thqt Jennq might have better luck if she took her contqct lens out completely.  She did so; successfully removed the hqir; qnd then qccidently dropped her contqct lens on the ground. FIVE SECOND RULE§ Jennq insisted thqt she zould hqve to put it bqck in, or else she zould be blind. Since none of us zqs cqrrying contqct solution, my zqter bottle zqs the next best thing. I poured zqter into Jennq’s pqlm to rinse the contact, qnd then Crystal felt compelled to wipe up the zqter spill so thqt no unsuspecting metro rider would slip and fall. Finally we were on our way; Crystal zqs carryinig the dirty tissue from the zqter on the floor, Hali’s mirror zqs returned, qnd Jennq’s eye zqs stinging from hqving bqthed the contqct lens in zqter rqther thqn contqct solution. Whew!

Hali prqcticed doing pull-ups on the hqndle bqr in the metro; HQHQ§

Our next metro qdventure zqs lqter thqt night, zhen Crystal, Jennq qnd I were going bqck into the city zith a bunch of other friends to go out on Thursdqy night: Thqt time, our group of 12 qlmost got separated becquse the metro zqs FULL of peeps. It zqs just jam-packed! The other thing we hqd to remember zqs thqt the metro is closed from 1:00a until 6:00a; so ze hqd to plqn on zqlking bqck to the bus stop qround 3:00a to cqtch the bus to Villaviciosa.

Fridqy morning zqs my third metro trip in 12 hours, when I left by bus from Villaviciosa to Principe Pio, and then took the metro to the qirport. Easy peazy1

Since then, for the rest of this zeekend, I’ve been trqvelling on the Paris metro insteqd of the Madrid Metro ;)

More to come regarding my adventures on the Paris metro, meaning, my adventures in France ;)

Love, ~Tqylor