Presents for All

Beautiful Espana.









Joel eating his favorite chocolate covered pretzel.




Janelle holdin the goods!

The crazy market. FULL of people.

Street worker levatating...seriously?

Janelle and Joel woke up this morning and performed their usual rituals. Janelle put on make-up AKA mascara to make her seem more awake than usual, while Joel slid on his shorts. We then decided to go to DD and get our usual donuts from the same lady (she didn't seem surprised). Upon arriving back to the hostel, we discussed what we should do. "I think we should try to spend all the money we can in our bank accounts before we get back home!" Janelle said. "That's probably not a good idea...but ok, why don't we spend it on the people back home too?!" Joel said. So we set off to go souvenir shopping and get the people back home-following the blog- some presents that means you too grandma and grandpa! We walked around for almost five hours looking for the best deals and the best gifts we could find. Hopefully all of you like yours, don't be expecting anything extravagent...we're broke. But anyways, we enjoyed the first half of our day by shopping around and walking through Madrid until we somehow happened upon the market - we actually stumble upon everything, it's kinda funny. Just when we start to think we are lost, we look to our right or left or sometimes even in front of us to find we are 25 feet away from our destination! But the market was packed and there were so many cool little shops and things to buy-which we didn't have the money for, but still looked anyway. Janelle and Joel ended up buying jerseys for themselves (only 5 euro!) which you will get to see in tomorrow's blog. We planned a jersey day together how cute right? It should be great. But after that, we went to dinner and spent a delicious meal snuggling and staring into each others' eyes. Not really, but we still enjoyed our dinner at least. Janelle and Joel have been getting along better as they spend more time together; it's like the opposite of a married couple! We are still having an excellent time in Madrid, and we are also excited to go somewhere new. We leave for Rome tomorrow, so everybody get excited!!! There will be plenty of new adventures and views for us there. We have big plans for our last day in Madrid tomorrow, so be ready for the entry. A Dios le pido!

P.S. We would like everyone to wish Keegan Bannon a happy 17th birthday and a happy 20th to Brittany Hiner too, because its twelve o'clock in Madrid baby!