March 4, 2010

I woke up at 5:15 this morning. We had to be at school at 6:20 to leave for Toledo. There is NO ONE out in the city at this hour of the morning, and it is completely dark outside. As soon as we got on the bus everyone tried to go back to sleep. I got maybe about 2 hours in, of course in a painfully uncomfortable position. We stopped at a cafe around 9 for some breakfast. After that we had a little over 3 more hours of driving. It was about 6 hours total. We stopped at the Don Quixote spot, which has huge windmills on the top of a mountain. It was so beautiful! The pictures I took do not fully describe how amazing it was up there! We spent about 30 minutes there. Then we continued on to the hotel. We stayed at Carlos V which was a really nice older hotel. We had a 2-person room with a balcony outside the window that looked over a small street. We had some time to eat our lunches and walk around, and our group ended up going into 2 art museums that were free entrance. We had to meet up a little later with our class at an art place that was also kind of like a Cathedral. We looked at some of the art that my art class has been studying. After that we had free time for the rest of the night, so we walked through some of the little tourist shops, and then stopped at a little restaurant for dinner. I got some chicken that was really good. At this point the stores were starting to close, so we got a cono kit kat and went back to the hotel. We met at Jess's room and there were about 12 people there to play the game "fishbowl" which is a combination of catch phrase, charades, and a few other things. It was so much fun! We played that until a little after 12, then I got ready for bed. It had been a long day, and we have another one coming!