Truly, Madly, Spain

Soaking in some culture!

Man, we have not been on our blogger game this week. We don't even have a fun story this time, we just stayed up late Skyping, first with Liz, then Rachel. So we felt quite social despite sitting alone in our room til 2AM, and we completely forgot to blog.

BEFORE the marathon Skype sessions, we actually had a pretty good day. We started the day with a swim out in Getafe, then back to Madrid for our first art museum visit of the semester at the Reina Sofia, Madrid's modern and contemporary art museum.

The current exhibit is the first retrospective on Richard Hamilton, who I'd never heard of, but was pretty cool, as it turns out. Mostly weird pop art stuff, which is not like my ~favorite~ kind of art, but always a fun gallery experience. The stuff on the bottom floor was very contemporary and very weird and kind of like being in an emotionally-wrought haunted house, like, kind of moving but in a very distressing and creepy way.

Couple of cute lady friends!

The permanent collection has a bunch of surrealist, stuff, which I really like, Dali and Bunuel and stuff, plus Miro, and, most exciting, the honest-to-goodness Guernica, which I've always wanted to see, ever since we first learned about it in sixth-grade Spanish Culture class. That thing is huge.

In other news: I am already excited for Christmas. Too early? Absolutely not.