And We're Off!!

So today we had to say goodbye to amazing Toledo - my new home away from home! After a relaxing weekend of hanging out with friends, relaxing, and (not to my liking) packing, we had our last breakfast this morning, and then with 2 HUMUNGOUS bags, plus a backpack and purse, we headed out - at first attempting to walk the whole way. If I haven't vented about it before, I'm going to now - Toledo is a city BUILT on a hill. Not one street is completely flat. Put that with a ton of cobblestones, and you have a burning sensation in your legs every time you walk out the door. Not that I mind that, my legs look great from this summer, but adding all the luggage made it almost impossible to even get to the main plaza, and it was hot today, so I was dripping sweat by 9:00AM - lovely. Luckily, we were all going through the same way, so the four of us decided to taxi it to the train station. Best 2 euro I've spent thus far (not including all the gallons of water I've downed). We took the Renfe train from Toledo to Madrid, and then it was ANOTHER adventure taking the Metro to the airport. Three train rides and two transfers later, we were finally at the airport, and then we had to trek to terminal 1, waayyyy down from the bus station. Luckily at this point Nikki and I got to drop one of our suitcases off at the consigna, or the airport lockers. We're going back to Madrid for our flights home, so we didn't want to travel with extra baggage!

At the consigna, we met a guy named Jeff from Florida. He had just finished a semester study abroad program in Santander, and was trying to fly back on stand-by...lets just say he wasn't successful his first day. He ended up hanging out with us all day! It was fun, just chatting and swapping travel and study abroad experiences. We spent the day at el Parque de Buen Retiro, one of my favorite places in Madrid, and then went for churros con chocolate at San Gines - best churros ever. I think I blogged about them already, but yes, basically heaven in a cup mixed with heaven from the fryer (translation: delicious, and probably loaded with calories - great haha)

Other than that, it was a pretty relaxing day, we've just been hanging out around the hotel and collecting ourselves before a marathon trip. 7 days, 2 countries, a million things to do with great friends - CANNOT wait. Our goal is to constantly be uploading pictures and blogging, so hopefully I'll be able to share every night!

For one of my last blog posts from España :(

¡Hasta!