Teatro Kapital!

So I know I'm still really behind...this post is really for January 10th...whoops! After our "snow day" we slept in kind of late and decided to do some leftover shopping for essentials like food...and cell phones in my case and Evan's case. Poor Evan has just had the worst time with his phone. It wouldn't turn on for him for most of the week, so he came with me when I decided to just break down and buy a phone since it didn't seem like I would ever be able to find a sim card for my movistar phone. As soon as customer service plugged his phone in it started working, so they wouldn't give him a new one! We're just hoping it hangs in there for him! Evan helped me score a super cheap phone and we headed off to meet the rest of the "shopping gang" at Alcampo which is basically a Walmart...spanish style! They have anything you could ever need to buy...ever! The wine and laundry detergent share an aisle...there is an aisle of dead pigs pretty close to the car tire aisle and right by the linens...the place is just insane. You could literally walk out with a new plasma tv, an octupus, a couch, and teddy grahams.

By the time we got back from the mall it was starting to get pretty late and we had decided as a group that we just had to go to Kapital, the biggest swankiest club in Spain. We all got glammed out and took the bus into town. We caught the last train out to Madrid. The train schedule here is ridiculous...it's definitely demonstrative of the party lifestyle. The trains leave at 12 and then don't start running again until 5:30 in the morning! So you either come back at 12 or you're there all night/morning! We arrived in Madrid around 12:30 and headed over to the club! Like I said the place was swanky so we ended up paying a 20 euro cover charge...at least it included a drink! I mean it as about the experience after all!

The club was absolutely huge! 7 floors and each a different theme with super fancy furniture and "mood" lighting! There was even a karaoke level and three of our group members got up and did it! The place got packed as the night wore on and it was really awesome to see people from literally all over the world! The bartenders had "mad skills" and were flipping the bottles and making these super complicated, expensive drinks, all while chatting up Spanish hotties. Evan ended up meeting a guy at the bar who told us he would help us get free admission if we'd come back and promote the bar to our friends and people in Madrid because he says it helps to have Americans at a club...makes it look popular! Who woulda thunk it? Americans are cool! So we've basically got free admission for whenever we want to go back! There were multiple dance floors but the main one was insane! There were dancers on stage and then the dance floor was surrounded by 4 bars. It was basically a spanish rave ha and every 10 minutes or so this machine would blast the dance floor with this gust of cold air so that it never got too hot! best invention everrrr! you can dance all night!

We stayed out until 5:30 and then decided to try to catch the first train back. We got the train back to Alcalá but we had missed the one that goes back to our campus, so we tried to get a taxi....funny story they don't start running until 9! So we headed back into the train station to see if there was another train we could catch back. There was one coming in a few minutes so we rushed to buy tickets. Some of the people have bus and train passes but I haven't bought one yet and neither had my friend Navid so we were stuck on the other side of the train gate trying to get the machine to take our money and then our credit card but they were all not working for some reason.The train pulled up and everyone else started to get on...we both decided there was no way we were going to wait in 15 degree weather anymore. I ran and hopped the gate in high heels haha! graceful as hell! and Navid wasn't far behind. So we rode the train to the same campus stop as the snow day and then made the walk back to the dorm. We got back to the dorm around 7:30. Needless to say I climbed into bed and was ooooooooooout!