Spring BREAK!!!!

"SPAIN"

So we woke up early from sleeping in the airport after Barcelona to head to the Canary Islands!!! These are islands right off Spain. It took around three hours to get from Madrid to the Islands and they couldn’t have lasted any longer! We were so anxious to get on the beach and get a little color for once! We arrived and went straight to the bathroom to change into our swimsuits right away before we got on the bus! Don’t worry mom we wore cover-ups over our swimsuits haha (my family could totally see me just going in my suit) I love being in my swimsuit! So we hopped on a bus that went to the south side of the island we were on, where our hostel and other friends were awaiting our arrival! We had quite the experience getting to where we were staying. We followed the directions and got to be where we were supposed to be, then we went into the bar area where we were first to check in, (first red flag, checking in at an outdoor bar). Then we went in and they had papers, food and other trash all over this tiny bar area/ workers lounge. So anyway we were to get a taxi to this one address and then we had to pay in cash on arrival. We did as we were instructed and found Shayna and Robert waiting for us at the address we were given! It turned out that we were staying in apartments, the boys had one and the girls had one. We had our own kitchen, living room and bedrooms. The only downfall was that we had to walk about 10 minutes to the pool and 20 to the beach and only the boy’s apartment had internet, but other than that it worked out great! And for only 14 Euro a night! So after we got all settled in we went to the pool to get our sun on! We laid out for a couple of hours and then wrapped it up and decided to get some groceries on the way back to the apartment. The guys went back early so it was just us girls to go get groceries. So we all stalked up on groceries for the week which were super cheap on the island! We all had lots of bags so we decided, oh, we’ll just take a taxi back. First obstacle: getting a taxi to take 5 girls when they were only allowed to have 4 in their taxi. We probably stopped 6 taxis before we found a taxi driver that would take us as long as we paid him 2 euro extra. Second obstacle that we didn’t think about until we all got situated inside the taxi with steph laying over our legs hiding… “does anyone know the address to our apartments?” So not only was the taxi driver so annoyed with us for having one extra person but we had no idea what the address was haha. So we try and just point to things and describe to him where we are staying. Then I pulled out a map from my baggie, Shayna grabs it and says “Maggie! You had a map this whole time!?” She looks at it, “This is of Barcelona!” throws it back at me and we all bursted out laughing. Then we continue to call the boys to ask them for the address as they are at the apartments while we called them. One of them answers, we ask “Hey what’s our address?” They reply, “Oh we don’t know!” “Well… could you take 4 steps outside and look?” They were too lazy to so we were once again on our own. Even though all three boys were there we decided we would only blame Robert for all of our struggles because he’s always just trying to get under everyone’s skin and loves doing it. So since we had no idea where we were going we just told the driver to pull over and we would walk back. He dropped us off at a place that we recognized but were sick of trying to explain where we needed to go so we got out and were once again on foot. We were getting close to the apartments so we thought we would take a shortcut through the back of this hotel. It turns out there was no way of getting to the other side except for going through the hotel. We started down the steps toward the pool area and did not realize until we had gone too far that there were shows going on and a supper where everyone was watching a tv that was directly next to us, so as we descended from the stairs about 80 pairs of eyes were on us as we carried 4 grocery bags each through their evening entertainment. As we walked though everyone we just kept saying how we were going to kill Robert and then kept laughing. We got lost inside the hotel and couldn’t find our way out so finally Shayna went up to one of the ladies working and goes “um we accidently walked into the hotel, this one isn’t ours, how do we get out of here? The lady laughed at us and told us how to get out. So finally we got out, went the right way and got back to our apartments in time to start supper before going out.
The next day we got up bright and early to try and go to the beach. We got there and it was literally a sand storm. We couldn’t walk four steps without getting sand in our eyes and our mouth. So we decided that we would hit up the pool again and try the beach again the next day. We went to the pool and just relaxed all day. Then we took sweet pictures of us forming “SPAIN” with our bodies. But basically lying out was basically the only thing we did that day. Later that night we went back, showered made really good pizzas, and then just played cards and hung out. Thursday was our last full day and was just as windy as the other days so instead of even trying the beach again we just went straight to the pool. This day Robert went missing, we didn’t know where he went. And then Chris was at the pool with us and then left for a second and didn’t come back when he had left his shoes and bad with us at the pool. Steph started freaking out like it was out of a movie and we were being taken one by one. Ben volunteered to go look around for chris and steph was like “NO BEN!” We can’t afford to lose you too! Haha it was really funny. –well not really at the time because both boys had been gone for a while. But now it is because Ben found Chris on some random couch in the lobby of the hotel of the pool we were using, sleeping. And then Robert showed up later, he had just left and decided he was going to rent a bike and take a ride around the island for the day. That night we decided to go out to eat for our last night, so we classed it up and went to good ol hooters to eat. On our way back we found a huge palm and Caitlin and Chris carried it for a while saying it was their cross to bear. (it was funny at the time.) Our last day, we got up early and hit the pool again. After the pool we went to the beach and I got to swim in the ocean! From there we went and walked through the sand dunes which literally looked like we were in a desert- it was really cool t-minus the fact that sand was flying EVERYWHERE and it hurt our eyes a lot. That evening we got on our bus to go to the airport and flew to Madrid! What we didn’t account for was the hour difference from the Canaries to Madrid. When we got to Madrid it was too late to get a bus back to Granada, so one again we SLEPT IN THE AIRPORT haha.