10.5 + 4 hours later: Madrid!

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So we just landed in Spain about an hour ago. It is 98 degrees and around 7:30 pm. Crazy! How I would describe Madrid is some kind of mix between San Francisco and Berkeley. But less hobos as far as I can tell. That actually kind of weirded me out because I was fully expecting and excited for everything to be completely different. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of strange things we've already encountered. My hotel roommate here in Madrid, Mariah (probably spelled wrong) calls them Mysteries of Spain! Some of these things include there being a urinal AND a toilet in every bathroom, the plugs not working until we figured out that the power in the room doesn't go on until you put your card key into this slot and leave it there (THAT took us WAY too long... at least 20 minutes) and other things like there being no wash clothes. Anyways, that is just a quick update on what I'm up to.
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I met Theresa at the SF airport this morning and Alma (my Bilbao roommate) also just happened to be there! So that ended up being really cool because we stuck together for walking through the airport. Alma and I sat by this really nice Indian guy on that flight (and yes Otter... he smelled like Curry). When we got to London, we had about an hr and 40 min to get to our next flight to Madrid and made it there with only 15 minutes to spare. The line to get through to the terminal was, as Theresa called it, "super organized chaos." Finally got a little sleep on that flight, but not much. We wandered into the Madrid airport looking SO confused. Luckily, most of the signs are either in English or are in picture form. However, we could not figure out what the below picture was of! Seriously... if you know, please comment and tell me!
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Ok! I'm off to meet up with my group to eat dinner! More pictures and updates to come! (tomorrow we are going on a tour of the city, having a picnic in the most well known park in Madrid, and SO much more!)