I'm heeeere!

And I am writing this from what I really would like to call my miniature hotel room. Even the elevator was miniature-sized. Me & my roommate were the first ones to get our room assignments, and seriously, we walked into the elevator and got real friendly real quick, there was no personal space with our suitcases in there. And the whole hotel is like that, except, oddly enough, the body wash. It's like a built-in dispenser. Which is genius, because then A) hotels wouldn't have to use SO MUCH plastic when they have to replace all the mini bottles that people steal, and B) you can actually wash up without spending half of the shower just tapping the stupid bottle on your hand to get a little dollop of soap on your hand. Genius! It's a cute little place though, and showering did wonders for my jet lag exhaustion problem.
My flights went super well too. Everything was on time, I found the right gates, I met up with two girls from my program in Philadelphia, and then was able to sit next to one of them on my final flight to Madrid! And I got to watch almost two movies on the super fancy touch-screen video screen on my seat. Seriously, if you haven't been on an international flight in a while, you should do it just to see the technology on those things, it's crazy!
When we landed, myself & Kristi (I'm throwing random names out here, just take them as introductions) just followed Jenna around like little ducklings because she was here last spring and knows her way around much better than we do. My luggage arrived just fine, and then we went out to the meeting place and realized, it's only 8:00. Our pickup wasn't due until 10:00, and even then we had to stay until 11:00 because that's how long they said they'd be at the airport for. So we sat on the stone floor of the Madrid airport for literally 3 hours, I'm not even kidding. But we did get to meet everyone and even talk to a few other people in other ISA programs who were waiting for their pickups as well. And, since there were about 9 of us at the airport and 4 of us were from DU, plus one more from CU Boulder, there were plenty of comments about how everyone in the ISA programs is from Colorado. Oops. It's nice though, I had some familiar faces to sit with at the airport.
Just finished going to lunch with some people from my program at this place called VIPS. It took us forever and a day to find it, but we did! Really good food, muy fresca. Seriously though, the food looked just like it did in the photos, and the photos looked fantastic! Someone wanted to find a supermarket, but they were closed for la siesta, so that threw a wrench in our plans! We just came back to the hotel instead.
Also, here's some photos from the flight! Chau!