Gabanna, Can Can (porque podemos!), and snow!

Ok so I'm trying to keep up with this but it has proven to be a bit difficult on top of everything else, so just bear with me while I work out the kinks! Thursday the 8th was so much fun!!! We heard from our spanish friends and professors that one of the hot spots in Alcala was this club called Can Can, so we decided it just had to be the next thing on our list! They made sure to tell us that the club really doesn't get going until about 3am...yea spaniards have a different schedule...the siesta was basically invented to make up for lack of sleep while out partying the night before... so we decided to make a pit stop at a bar near the city center called Gabanna before heading over. There was a pretty decent amount of people there and the drinks were pretty cheap so everybody was happy...especially because they were playing horrible American pop music that we could mock the whole time while we danced. Craziest thing in the world happened though! I ran into one of my fellow c-ville high alum! She is studying abroad at the same university! small world? yea! It was probably around 1/1:30ish when we decided to start walking over to Can Can...mind you we all had to get up the next day around 7:30 for class...best decision in the world? maybe not. fun night? absolutely.

As we stood outside the bar waiting for the rest of our group to grab their coats, we started talking with some kids from France, Italy and Ireland that were studying in Spain. They were a really quirky group and we were all having a good time chatting it up when all of a sudden it started to snow!!! They told us it would never snow while we were there, so I had already come to grips with the fact that I would miss winter this year...but nooooooo! Like I said before, most people weren't even out yet at this point, so we all got to enjoy that perfect tranquil feeling you get when watching snow fall, and the backdrop of the old architecture was just so beautiful, maybe the most amazing snowfall I've ever expereienced.

Anyway... we did end up making our way to Can Can and it was pretty much empty with the exception of a few Spaniards at the bar area. They had a huge dance-floor with green strobe lights that would probably induce seizures for most people, but let's face it...we're experienced in the dance arena. Needless to say los Americanos were the first to get out on the dance floor and show em how we do back in the states. Our Australian friends from school and the dorms ended up dancing with us and we had an awesome time hanging with them.

Then the night took a turn for the worse...We all thought that the buses were going to run on the hour until 6, so after I realized I could leave at 3:30 and catch the 4 bus... or wait until 5...I decided to go for the "early bird" bus. So we made the long walk back to the bus stop and, after standing there for a half an hour in the snow, realized that the buses only run on that schedule on the weekends. Luckily, Caitlin had the number of the taxi company in her phone and we were able to get two taxis home, which cost about 10 euro, not bad to split between 4 people. So we finally got home around 4:30, which gave us just enough time to get that one REM cycle in before having to wake up for class on Friday. cha-ching!