Monday 22nd of August 2005
Jubilant times
Smile!: Bonnie and Sandra at Vips.
The incoming Bonnie arrived last friday. I got the day off and Jorge and I went to pick her up at the airport. I must say, the concentration of hot women in the airport was staggering. Add to that the fact that languages are sexy and damn. We basically sat there and oogled left at right while waiting for Bonnie´s arrival. I can’t quite describe the “feeling” you get after seeing someone you know after such a long time. It goes by so fast I’ve never had the chance to study it properly, it seems to be like when you wake up and realize you just had a dream. You know you just had one, but you can’t remember what happened in it.
Sandra’s parents are out of town, so we basically took over her house for the weekend. After dropping off bags and other crap at Sandra’s, we went to Mercadona and bought food. After getting back home and eating a nice big meal, we indulged ourselves in the Spanish experience and took a siesta. After waking up 45 minutes later, we proceeded to walk around Madrid. Went to Callao, Puerta del Sol, walked around Gran Via, visited Plaza Mayor, saw the Almudena and the Royal Palace, saw the Palacio de Comunicaciones and god knows what else. We met up with Estefania and Rebeca at this point, and as it was getting dark and the hunger started to strike we went to Plaza España and found an Asturian restaurant that Jorge seemed to know about. We proceeded to try our skills at escanciar the sidra into our glasses. You basically hold the glass tilted sideways, streching your hand out, then hold the bootle with your other hand and pour it from as far up and away as you can, aiming for the rim of the glass. Much fun was to be had.
After that we started looking for a suitable garito (bar). I have no idea where Jorge took us, but after maybe 15-20 minutes of “alright” songs, they started a stream of excellent songs, one after another. We sang. We screamed. Did the sprinkler. Tried on ice cream cone wrappers on our nose. We jumped. Drank Calimochos with blackberry. We smiled. Amazing time.
The place started closing doors at 3am, announcing this by playing really shitty and silly music as to scare people away. Ha. We met up with Cat at this point, who is also in Madrid, staying for a month. Saw some chinese girls playing hide and seek in a little kid’s park. Taped them. They they waved at us to join them. Er. After that we went to get some hot chocolate in the Chocolatería San Gines. After which we all went back home to sleep it all off. Whew.
A fun friday indeed.
2 Comments to “Jubilant times”
3 years, 4 months ago, Salvi said:
Well, you know, regardless of how much you actally (don’t) email us, you’ll always have a couch here waiting for you. Because we love you. Did i mention you never write us anything? >:P
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3 years, 4 months ago, Andre The Gonner said:
Bah.. good times. I miss you guys a lot. I will soon move back down south and hopefully we can get together again some. Maybe someday I’ll visit there too.
-Andre