It was a bit of a struggle to wake up this morning. My roomies and I quickly got dressed because we woke up with little tome to pack. We went downstairs to meet the rest of the group for breakfast before walking to the bus stop to catch our charter bus for the last time. Gillian met us all for breakfast and pointed us to the direction of the bus stop. Emily’s ankle felt better this morning so she decided to ditch the wheel chair and walk on her own. Cesar was pushing the wheel chair on the way to the bus and was leading us all. As we neared the bus station we found a ramp that led us down to load onto the bus but Cesar however continued to walk down the street. I think if we hadn’t called his name we would all have been loaded on the bus waiting for him to find his way. It was kind of entertaining to watch him pass the station but he found his way. This bus ride seemed shorter than the rest, probably because we were excited to come back to our original hotel because we love Madrid.
We arrived at Hotel Regina and checked into different rooms than we had before. This time our rooms were nicer. It was kind of exciting to walk into our hotel room with a mint on our pillows. This is Stephanie and I’s last full day in Madrid so we’re on a mission to get as many souvenirs as we can in a couple hours. Our first mission, get our luggage out of the hotel storage. We checked in our luggage to the hotel before leaving to Segovia a couple days ago to make sure it’s safe. Well turns out many other people also checked in their luggage to Hotel Regina storage so it took a while to find out which room ours was stored in. We finally found it hiding inside a glass room then had to open a secret door to another room. Yeah it sounds a little complicated but what matters is we got our belongings safe and sound. Next Stephanie and I hit the streets of Madrid to find unique shops and pick up great buys. I was searching mainly for a Ronaldo Real Madrid Jersey for my younger brother and Stephanie was searching for boxing gloves for her mom. We finally found what we were looking for after going to many many many shops. If it were up to me I would have shopped all day but we were on a time limit because we had to be back at the hotel for our last speaker Arturo Dovalina from Mezcal Entertainment.
We got all the gifts we needed and had extra time to lounge in our rooms before going to the meeting room. Arturo Dovalina from Mezcal Entertainment was my favorite speaker by far. He was so entertaining and his passion for what he does truly shows when he talks about his company. Mezcal Entertainment is a Mexico based company that provides editorial and video services. They provide a lot of services to Latin America and especially Madrid. His business focuses on covering Latin media such as artist like Shakira and Actresses such as Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. He still covers mainstream market in case people approach his business for some photos of popular mainstream artists and actors. The way Arturo describes his business and what he does seems very real to me. He has people located around the world to capture certain photographs. Just like EFE has reporters placed around the world except Mezcal Entertainment hasn’t grown that big yet. Arturo was very real and answered every question that we had for him. I think we could have talked about his company all day if Cesar hadn’t wrapped it up because he was so easy to converse with.
After snapping a group photo and leaving the meeting room for the last time we were excited to watch España play another game in the world cup. As our usual we head to O’neils but this time we decided to sit upstairs. We figure it would be easier for Cesar to find us there because he planned on catching up with when the game begins. It was a lot of fun to share the traditional Spanish experience watching fútbol in the pub with the locals. We ordered some nachos and some drinks and enjoyed the game. España won 2-0 against Honduras and it was such a great game to end the night. We all went to the game as a group and afterwards we were all very hungry and searched for a restaurant to eat dinner. Well our search took over 45 minutes to find a restaurant that fit our budget and by that time we had lost a couple of people from our group because they were tired and decided to call it a night. We finally sat down at what seemed to be a pretty fancy place to eat. We were pretty delirious by this time so by the time the bread and bread sticks came out we started playing with our food as if we were five year olds all over again. It’s always fun to act like a kid, right? Well it was definitely entertaining. As soon as our food arrived, everybody’s eyes got really bug because our food looked tasty and we were excited to eat it. I order lemon chicken and it was the best darn chicken I have ever had before. We couldn’t just stop at dinner because we always have room for dessert. Some ordered ice cream, a couple ordered flan and Alex and I ordered cheesecake, or as it was printed on the menu “cake of cheese!” Haha we got a laugh out of that one. We all pitched in for the bill because for some odd reason they could never split the bills in this country. We took a nice stroll back to the hotel and called it a night. Tomorrow morning Stephanie and I are off to the airport and are the first to leave out of the group. I could barely sleep because I was so upset that I had to go but I had to rise early in the morning to make sure I packed everything so I tried my best to catch some z’s. Goodnight
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