Crazy Parade

I´m trying to think of where to start. I had a pretty laid back weekend. On Thursday night I went out with some friends to a couple of bars in an area called tribunal. On Friday, I went and played guitar in a park that I hadn´t been to yet called Casa de Campo. I´m not as fond of Casa de Campo as I am of the Retiro. It´s not nearly as cultivated and maintained which I thought might be cool, but instead the park just seemed to have this neglected feel about it. On Friday night, I went with some people to see a free theater prodution in the street way up north because Friday night was theater night in Madrid. The production was reeeaaallly weird. After the production there was this parade of scary stuff that went down the street. There were people dressed up as grim reapers and orcs (from lord of the rings) and all sorts of other scary stuff, and the actors would interact with the people watching the parade as they passed by. On Saturday, all of the Wash U folk went to Valle de los Caidos (where Franco is burried), a town called Escorial, and this big palace called la granja. That was pretty much the weekend. I kind of fell down on the job taking pictures. Now I´m back at school again trying to avoid working on a grueling economics problem set. I´m really excited to go to Lisbon on Saturday; I think that´s going to be a lot of fun. Until next time.