Friday, July 6th History

Puerta del Sol

     We woke up extremely early in the morning, thanks to David, who wanted to get up early to see the Puerta del Sol. David wouldn't stop clamoring on about how this town square was like the heart of Madrid and how we were lucky to be going to it. Langebeck and Cope had a fun time pretending to be a native and speaking gibberish to tourists. Evan Cope saw some people selling t-shirts saying things like, "I ❤️ Madrid," on them, and Matt ran over to grab one to, "blend in with the natives."

Puerta del Sol // History

     According to David, Puerta del Sol was originally the location of a gate to the city.  Additionally, it was where the Movement of the Outraged happened, a protest for true democracy beginning May 15th, 2011.  Additionally, in 1984 they moved a central statue of the plaza, "El Oso y El Madroño" to opposite the Casa de Correos, only to be moved back to its original location on the 25th of September, 2009.
While we were there, we decided to finally have breakfast at El Museo Del Jamón. We thought it was a fine restaurant, however, the ham tasted funny. We were on our way to the Museo Sorolla, Langebeck and David started to throw up on the floor. The group thought that it would be fun to spend the rest of the day in the hotel room vomiting while watching TV.

Museo Sorolla

     Before the day ended the group began to feel better, so we decided to see the Museo Sorolla. When we got there Matt was admiring Sorolla's work to, "It's Every Day Bro," which he was blasting from some speakers he bought. When the guards came by and escorted Matt outside everyone pretended not to know him. After hours of walking around and looking at beautiful paintings, the group finally walked outside where Matt was impatiently waiting. Matt started to yell at us for not leaving with him.We decided to eat dinner at La Sanabresa. We thought the food there was alright, however we wanted to go to Telepizza again. We decided to head back to the hotel. We ended up watching Pasapalabra, a Spanish game show that Cope pretended to understand. We were all laying on the beds until Evan Langebeck finally said that we need to do something.

     We all decided to go and just stroll around the streets and just look for something exciting. We were just walking until we finally saw a magician who was doing sleight of hand tricks. He asked for a volunteer to help him out, so he decided to go and choose Matt. He wanted to see if Matt could tell him how a pen disappeared, Matt decided to not to try and see where it went and instead just guessed. Matt told the young man that he hid the pen in his left coat pocket. Everyone suddenly gasped as Matt was the only one to ever guess the location of the pen. They magician was angry yet happy that somebody finally found the location of the pen. We all decided to go and explore some more.
     We were exploring some more when we happened to see a group of girls dancing in a circle. David, Evan Langebeck, and Evan Cope all were laughing at them when Matt decided to start dancing. Matt was doing a very poor worm when Evan Cope started to do an even worse windmill. Evan Langebeck and David were out of breath after watching Matt and Evan Cope try to do flips. The girls quickly left in shock from Matt and Evan Cope's horrendous dance moves. After the girls left, we decided to go back to our hotel room. When we finally got back to our hotel rooms, we were all exhausted and fell asleep almost instantaneously.