The Original Garyales - Madrid dia 1, el empieza de la garytale (6.28.03)

Hola amigos,

When last we met, the boys and I had awoken mighty early from our train ride.
The best thing about checking into a new hostel is definitely that I get to
take a shower. Clean, so good!! Anyways, we all took a short nap and decided to go a tour, that was supposedly not supposed to include a lot ofwalking, unfortunately it did. I am now referred to as el Gato, because I am always sleeping, eating, or walking, or a combination of the three. I preferred the Lion due to my hairy chest and shoulders, but it was vetoed. The
cricket is still chirping away happily, meanwhile Ben and Brian don’t have any
names yet. Ok, back to what we did, no more rambling. I like a brook, the
rest of the guys say, I just don’t stop babbling.

We started off by going to get breakfast at a local cafeteria about a block off our hostel. The hostel is money with air conditioning and a concierge desk, hold on is this a hostel or a four star hotel, I am getting confused. We then continued to the palace. This is a really dope spot, it is grand, plenty of wealth, and it has arms and armor. The day in Madrid is also much improved, the smells have either acclimated themselves to our nostril or Madrid is just
a much cleaner, and nicer area, that has less humidity and more parks. Its a capital bella. The palace has a huge courtyard used for ceremonies and overlooks the biggest park in Madrid, we went on a tour and I saw more wealth than I will accumulate in a millennium. Unfortunately, the cashier shiests me of five euros, he says I gave him 5, I gave him 10, sheisty Spaniards, they must know the Capybara and Scott Holmes I had no idea the Spanish monarchy was
connected to the Austrian Hapsburgs, when I learned this new fact it all made sense. There are too many little details to talk about, but let’s suffice to say that the many rooms we could see of the 2700 that exist were all really cool. The armory actually had knights on horseback in full armor and a really cool dragon helmet, I was really tempted to try it on. From the palace we
walked to the metro to go and see the Real Madrid football stadium. When we got out of the metro, lurking above us were two flanking tipped over buildings that were really cool, a central beam supported each 80 story building for some kind of Spanish Media Company.
Luckily, Ben and Brain decided we should go past stop because we were told the street was like La Rambla in Barcelona, after a 1/2 mile walk in intense heat, we reached the stadium under construction and were unable to enter for less than 4 Euro. I didn’t feel the
need to part for a stadium.

Returning back to the hostel, we took a nice long 6 hour siesta. Oh no we thought, its 10'o'clock, we need to go eat, so we went to a restaurant in the central plaza and sat under a terrace on the street to view the wonderful street traffic. We then made a stopover at a local bodega and went upstairs to enjoy my little friend 40 oz cerveza and his best friend 40 oz cerveza #2. Its now 12'0'clock and we think we are missing the party so we quickly head over to a Club Joy, after a 12 Euro cover, we party the night away until 4 am. I want to stay and try to convince the others that the hostel is shut and we will have to lie in the street, but they don’t agree. Will continue soon.

Peter