Madrid madness

Ok so March 7th through 9th Bre and Ashleigh came to visit me. We met in Madrid. So after the longest metro ride ever and checking into the hostel, we decided to get tapas, the favorite was tortilla patas which is like a potato omelette. Then we part took in siesta since all of us had basically stayed up the entire previous night. After siesta we got up and went to Sol, which is near where a lot of shopping and resturants are. We wandered around for a while and got more tapas, and chocolate con churros. We also walked through the Plaza Mayor. On Sunday we went to the gyps flee market which was massive and amazing!! Then since it was crazy sunny and warm we went and sat near the Royal Palace and watched some street flamingo dancing. We then walked back to Sol and sat outside and had some sangria. That night we went to two different bars then hung out at the hostel waiting for Bre and Ashleigh's cab to the airport. It was a short, relaxing and crazy fun weekend with my sisters!!
The next weekend Michelle, Jill and I went to Madrid for the Fall Out Boy concert on Friday night. It turns out that the concert was sponsered by undereighteen.com so basically we were like some of the oldest people there. The first opening band was a spanish band with lots of screaming there was one member whos job it seemed to be was just scream at random intervals. After them was The Sounds who were crazy bad ass. Their lead singer was a woman and I would much rather have ran into the entire Spanish band in an alley than her. The first song they sang had a line that said "We're not living in America and we're not sorry" but the song didn't diss the US and even really talk about...it was just kind of a random and awkward song. Then Fall Out Boy played and they were pretty good, better than I expected. One of the songs all the lights went out and their guitars light up and one of the members was like SHIT FACED and kept talking to the crowd but pretty much Michelle, Jill, and I were far more entertained by his comments than anyone else and we are pretty sure that is because no one else really understood what he was saying. On Saturday we took the bus down to Toledo, which is about 1 hour north. Toledo use to be the capital of Spain, back in the day because its on a huge hill. We went to an art museum for El Greco because he lived many years of his life in Toledo. Then we went to the Cathedral and a synagogue with a small museum. We walked around a lot but Toledo is super small so it was easy to see a lot of things. Many of the tourist shops sold swords because it is a typical trade of Toledo. Mazapan is a typical dessert from Toledo and we ended up buying a small box of that, it was a very doughy cookie. For lunch we found a nice patio and had some pitchers of sangria and just sat in the sun :) Then we took the bus back to Madrid and we went to a bar that night where Michelle and I had two shots of Absinthe each. Then on Sunday we returned to Burgos!