Sunday February 24, 2008
Today I woke up at 4:10am and rushed to put on clothes and pack my bed for our trip back to Spain. We had the concierge hail a cab for us and we left around 4:30am to head to the bus station. We took the shuttle back to the Beauvais Airport, which was really scary because there was an immense amount of fog on the road. You probably couldn’t see more than 5 feet in front of you. After going through security and waiting for the flight, there was an announcement (in French) that said that we had to take a new bus to another airport to fly from there because the visibly was so bad. We quickly made friends with a younger French girl who spoke broken English and figured out what was happing. We took a bus for 2 hours to the north of France, very close to the boarder of Belgium, and finally caught a flight to Madrid. We were now close to 4 hours behind schedule and had already missed our bus from Madrid to Seville. I knew that we were going to be in for a long night after our first flight had been rescheduled. It was 4pm and we were in the Madrid airport. We checked all of our options to get back to Seville. At least these people spoke Spanish, a language that we could actually understand. We could take the Ave for 70 Euros, fly for 220 Euros, or take a bus for 20 Euros. Being the cheap students we are, we opted for the bus. We took the Metro for an hour and headed to the bus station. By the time that we had arrived we had missed the 5pm bus (which keep in mind it still takes 6.5 hours from this point to get back to Seville) and we were going to try for the 6pm bus because the only two busses left were the 6pm and 10pm. For some completely lucky reason, we got the last 4 tickets on the 6pm bus to Seville. We were the luckiest people ever. If we had to take the other bus we would have gotten home right before class on Monday. After buying tickets we frantically searched for food because we hadn’t had any food since last night and it was already 5pm. We got on the bus at 6pm and rode for 6.5 hours until we got to the bus station in Seville. We walked home (20 minutes) from the bus station and to our surprise Encarna had dinner waiting on the table for us. Have I mentioned that she is the best host mom ever created? We ate and finally went to bed after traveling for 21 hours. We could have come back to the States in that amount of time, Lord. But it was a good trip and everything ended up working out well. Paris was amazing and it was worth every penny!
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