Spain Trip Day Four − 20 September, 2007

(The following are transcripts of the Moleskine I kept on our trip to Spain)

12:30pm
-fell asleep last night after closing this book
-woke up at 8am to the phone call we asked for I say hola, no answer, I hang up, get up and go shower, hear the phone again, Greg picks up says hola but he gets a response, hangs up and goes back to sleep
-I make a big mess on the floor because of the shower
-we get ready I take my laundry to the front desk and off we go to Museo Reina Sofia
-stop in at "Pans" for breakfast, I almost stole an old guys table, I apologize and find another
-I had a choco muffin and frech OJ Greg had spanish omelette and fresh OJ
-leave get to Reina Sofia its about 9am, doesn't open until 10am
-we go over to Atocha to get oriented for tomorrow and immediately have no idea where we are going
-walk around for 20 mins then go back to information
-she spoke pretty good ingles and helped us
-went to ticket office and she also helped
-went to Reina Sofia walked around, debated Guerneca, saw the sexually suggestive side of every piece of artwork
-solved many artworks, they can be removed now
-laughing at temp exhibit (Tropical Iceberg)
-come to BK, opens at noon waited, ordered halfassedly, ate
-Greg tried to take someone elses meal
-Greg couldn't find the washroom

6:15pm
-went to Thyseen walked through no pictures allowed
-met up with girl from plane asked her how it was going
-legs were on fire
-no art to solve because it was all classical
-then went and got lost
-went to Prado wandered around looking at the paintings and sculptures
-was sitting in the biggest room in Prado and sneezed the whole room of hundreds of people went silent
-afterwards went to souvenir shop bought some stuff sucked at spanish and came back to hotel
-showered, collected my laundry, made an ass of myself at the front desk
-watched MTV.de and some some fucked up video called "the question is"

11:30pm
-walked down to palacio real and sat in an upperclass cafe for some dinner
-Greg got a cod fish salad and a red wine, I got some jamon iberion on toasty bread it was a nice snack but we needed more
-walked to plaza mayor and sat down at our favourite cafe
-I had 1/2 chicken with fries or "Uno medio pollo y patatas" and Greg had a paella de carne, rice and meat, we sat and watched the plaza and had drinks and shot the shit
-masseurs kept coming out of the shadows and when the police showed up they'd scurry away back to the shadows
-music, people, drinks, friend it was a perfect way to spend the last whole day in madrid