Madrid-Toledo-Madrid

As always, what a weekend! So, we left the apartment at about Midnight on the "morning" of the 1 AM bus at Plaza de Armas. We walked about 10 mins to the Metro, then realizing it was CLOSED. So we had to figure out the cheapest way to get accross Seville in 45 minutes. So, Phil and Micah had bikes, and I didn't. Although we were bringing three travel backpacks, and a full, small suitcase of groceries, we went for biking. I sat on the seat while Phil pedaled. Don't get the wrong idea - my job was the hardest. We made it with about ten minutes to spare.

The bus ride was... worse than expected. We have always had relatively empty buses, but this one was full. I maybe slept 3 or 4 hours. We arrived at 7 AM in Madrid just exhausted. No pun intended - but throwing Micah under the bus a bit here - love ya man. He reserved the hostal for us, but didn't write down a phone number, location or area as to where the hostal in Madrid. Kind of a big city. However, he was also great in two ways - he said he had a "general idea" as to where it was and so we took the metro to that area. Then, he entered a random hostal, used their internet and took a map, and we were good to go! We were actually only about 5 minutes away on foot to the hostel. The other option for a bus was 8 AM, arriving in Madrid at 2:15 PM. We elected that low sleep was not as important as 7 extra hours in Madrid.

We went to three museums on Friday: Thyssen-Bornemisza, Sofia Reina, and another. We took a much needed nap after checking in to Cat's Hostal - which was really nice by the way. We had a four person room between Micah, myself and Phil. A guy named Paul from Cali was our number 4. That evening we also made it over to Parque de Buen Retiro. We decided that Saturday would be a great time to go to Toledo, so we tried to fit in as much as we could in Madrid on Friday. We all went to bed early at like 10 or so on Friday. I'm going to post, my battery is getting low.