El primer día

Those of you that know me well, know that I love my sleep. Sooo.. not sleeping on the megabus or the plane turned out to be really painful. But we took a quick siesta after meeting our host family: Alfonso, Esperanza, and Sofia. Esperanza and Sofia ironically love American music. It is playing all the time in our 5 bedroom condo! We took some time to learn the metro, rode the La Puerta del Sol and got off to find many protestors in the Center! The architecture is amazing and there are bars, tapas, shopping, and cafes everywhere! We have a lot of exploring to do! We also walked to Plaza Mayor which was beautiful. However, we ran across some strange "performers": woman in a lamb/donkey and tinsel costume (who was not very nice), three men with there Halloween-painted faces on a table, and a headless man! We decided to end our day there and came back for some much-needed dinner and sleep ;) (look closely, he has NO head!)