España

Yay! I have an ¨ñ¨button on my keyboard...too cool. Anywho, I am now in beautiful Spain, in Valencia to be precise. I flew into Valencia, ran all over to find a cheap ferry and ferried it to Mallorca where I met Savi. Mallorca is very pretty, but it was nearly impossible to find a cheap place to stay. We spent the majority of Monday riding the bus up and down the coast in our search for a room for me. Why is it so difficult to give correct directions to the hotel you work at? Is it necessary to send potential guests to the wrong city? I don´t get it...maybe it´s an island thing.

I did finally find a somewhat inexpensive place which was really old and neat, with a ton of character. Unfortunately, I chose to stay the two nights in the summer when it rained (it ¨never¨rains in the summer) and I got a free shower in bed my first night. Now, I know about breakfast in bed and I think that is a pretty cool thing, but a shower in bed is a new one for me. Tuesday morning I woke, not to steaming coffee and french toast, but to water dripping on my head. I moved, thinking I could avoid the one leak, but to no avail as multiple leaks sprouted up all around and over my bed. The last couple of hours of my night´s sleep were spent on a hundred-year-old loveseat in the parlor room of the Pon Resadencia. Good times. I was able to receive a discount because of this surprise morning waterfall and got a new room. Apparently they don´t use my first room in the winter because of the bed showers, but it doesn´t rain in the summer, so I should have been fine. Silly me. Maybe I was just too smelly.

Savi and I are now in Valencia and are headed to Madrid tomorrow morning. We´ll be in Madrid for about 5 nights and then I will be off to Manchester to visit Miss Rauschenberger (AKA Emilee). Good times. I can´t wait for tapas!