We're back from another day out, and I figure since we get a free half hour of Internet each day at this hostel, we may as well try and post on the blog a bunch since we have but 2 weeks left! Can you believe we've been gone for 9 whole weeks? Or that we 3 have been together for 9 whole weeks in Europe? It's crazy!
A few things I've remembered about some of the past cities we've been in... in Madrid, I think while Ali was getting her new AmEx card, Sarah and I stumbled upon some sort of a parade going down one of the main streets. We later found out it was for some sort of a Santa Maria day, and that probably explains why everything was closed that day. We had to head in that same direction, so after all the nuns and priests and such went by, we started walking that way, but then the crowd of onlookers all piled into the street and suddenly we were just part of the parade that was being filmed and all that jazz. Everyone around us looked a bit somber, but Sarah was slurping up the sauce from her doner kebab foil and I was giggling, so I think we were sort of out of place.
Oh and also in Madrid, we went to a big park where there was one of the most amazing playgrounds I've ever been to! The playgrounds in Europe are much cooler than ours - they still have all the toys we've deemed to dangerous in the U.S. as well as a bunch of others. I feel like we've come across that a lot - things in Europe that definitely would not be okay back home. Take construction - we'll be walking along the sidewalk, and find ourselves directly under a crane carrying a load of cement blocks or something - it's a little sketchy. Not to mention that our hostels/hotels always seem to be near a construction site that starts drilling around 7 or 8 in the morning! I've made a 'Europe generalities' list that includes some of those things - other things on the list: excessive church bells (our hostels also seem to be situated near churches often), poor plumbing and smelly sewage, cheap cheese!, water is rarely free at restaurants, street names are on the buildings (which means we either have to go around the corner or cross the street to see where we are), eggs aren't refrigerated, they love their roundabouts, doner kebab stands are everywhere!, and 'to-go' containers aren't really a thing.
Today we found an area with affordable restaurants for our Thanksgiving dinner, so we are set for that! And also - to our parents, we've thought about perhaps stopping for dinner after we get off the plane? Perhaps at Red Robin? (A good 'ol American restaurant - we've been talking about the burgers and bottomless fries!) There's one in Federal Way, assuming we'll be driving around on the way back...
Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow to everyone back home! We'll be here, in Rome :)
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