MUY Cerca de España

I am so incredibly excited to get to Spain. We will be in Cádiz in less than 7 hours! I have been practicing my Spain-style Spanish, aka th-erve-th-a instead of cerveza, and Cad-ith instead of Cadiz. This is very fun, and I feel I may not be able to hold back a huge grin while trying to converse and keep up with the mile-a-minute Spanish speakers I will soon be encountering.

I have a backpack and a small purse for three days. This may be the lightest I have ever packed. The forecast is upper 90s to 100 degree weather. Casey and I are staying in the Hotel Best Western Arosa, on Gran Via in the middle of Madrid. I thumbed through my travel book for Madrid as I was packing it for the weekend and found a few great maps with the estimated location of our hotel in a prime location for great food, wonderful shopping (would I have it any other way?) and a plethora of activities for day and night that will give us a great cultural experience.

Casey, Stephen and I will disembark early in the morning, grab a cab to Jerez de la Frontera (a nearby town where the airport is located), and hang out in or nearby the airport until our flight at 5:50PM. Casey and I will check into our hotel while Stephen meets up with Chelsea, his girlfriend and one of our Theta friends! A few of our Theta sisters will be meeting us at our hotel for tapas or dinner!

This should be an amazing start to the semester, and I can't wait to have something more exciting to talk about than food and the motion of the boat!

Stephanie@Sea