Hi!
My family left this morning :( but we had an awwwesome week..it was sooo nice to have them here and be able to show them around the city. We went to a bull fight, took a day trip to Toledo, took a bus tour of Madrid, visited Palacio Real (The Royal Palace), the Prado Museum, Plaza Mayor, Sol, and took a tour of the Real Madrid Futbol Stadium. We stayed in a really cool hotel right in the heart of the Salamanca neighborhood (very close to my apartment)...Mom and I shopped a little bit (ok a lotta bit)....Preston and Dad found an Irish pub that played American football, so they hung out there whenever they got a free moment..haha..My friend Okado recommended a lot of restaurants and everything was great...we really didn't have a bad meal.
Some highlights:
-Their flight from nashville was delayed 4 hours..but somehow, it wasn't updated on the airline website...so I was waiting at the airport and stressing outtttttt! I was like oh man..I bet they are lost somewhere in Madrid because they don't know any Spanish..they don't have a phone to get in touch with me..I'll probably never see them again..I was freaking OUT! Anyway, they fiiinally showed up..and all was right in the world :)
-Mom and I got in a little cab wreck... ahhhh...we were on our way to meet dad and preston for dinner and bammm..a van came out of nowhere...no one was hurt but it was scary. Our driver jumped out of the car and started yelling with the other driver in the middle of the street...Mom and I jumped out and ran as fast as we could...haha I didn't wanna be caught up in that! Mom was like, "we're witnesses! we need to stay!"..I was like seeee ya. We got another cab and got the heck out of there...I'm really surprised my friends and I have never been in a fender bender in a cab before...in Chicago..Africa...Madrid...it was bound to happen sometime! Haha!
-We were all walking on the street and we heard someone say "vamonos!" (which means "let's go" in spanish) and Mom goes, "Dominos? Dominos! Ya'll have dominos here?" haaaaaaaaaaaaahahahah
-Dad and Preston met three guys on the tour of the Real Madrid stadium who were from England...dad and preston told them about "their irish pub" and the guys met up with them that night...They are all prison guards and were so fun...they were exchanging "life stories" when mom and I showed up...It was just cool to randomly meet people and make friends...we told them to call us if they are ever in the states!
-We had manyyyy funny experiences trying to communicate in Spanish..it was like the blind leading the blind..but we did it somehow...ask Mom to speak some spanish to you...you'll get a good laugh...

anyway..now I'm back to real life...but it was such a nice break to have my fam in town..I'm halfway through the semester and it's flyyyying...hope you're all doing well! Check out my pictures!