Shopping yesterday was AWESOME! We left on the 11:30 train and returned at 7:30. We stopped for bocadillos for about half an hour (I had tortilla de patatas and Gunita had jamón y queso), but other than that, we shopped the entire day! We both probably bought more than we should have, but it’s not like we go to Albacete every week, right? I bought two pullover sweaters (different styles—one turtleneck wool turquoise/forest green color and one v-neck gray with maroon stripes…I also bought this scarf to go with the gray sweater—I HAD to; it matched PERFECTLY!). I also purchased a brown cardigan, (I know what you’re thinking: that’s totally Mr. Rogers, but they’re really popular here) gray and green long-sleeved turtlenecks and black and white short-sleeved turtlenecks (wait…are they still called turtlenecks if they’re not long-sleeved???). I also came away with a red necklace and three scarves (yes, ONLY three!). I feel like I bought more, because those packages were so heavy, but I can’t think of anything else right now…

We were both so tired when we pulled into Socu and unfortunately, the train station is about a half hour walk (with heavy packages it seemed like triple that!) from our house. We popped into the Chinese store on our way back because I knew I would need more hangers (my bags were already SUPER heavy, but what’s one more, really, I thought). I’m glad we stopped because I ended up using nine of them; I bought twelve. I also bought a one euro pack of bracelets to give Pilar for the one that she gave me. (Oh, I almost forgot…she was with her family at the train station too, going to Alicante to visit some family there. I soon as we walked in, she grabbed me and kept hugging me…I had to say “Alright, I have to go buy my ticket now. She was still glued to me when I went up to the ticket window…)

We FINALLY arrived home a little after eight and we had already decided that we weren’t going out. I had my slippers on and had already eaten my leftover pasta from Thursday night and Javi called and was like “Do you want to take a beer with me?” Honestly, I didn’t want to, but he’s only here on the weekends and we like to practice Spanglish, so I did. We went to Cuatro Estaciones and talked for a while, then Jesús showed up and we went to La Komba. Considering last weekend, I came back relatively early, at two! I was just so tired from walking around all day!

Today’s been really peaceful and quiet. I haven’t gone anywhere and don’t really want to because it’s cold and raining :(. We’re staying in tonight though (for real!). I think the plan is to order Chinese and then Jesús knows of a drinking game he wants to try…at least we’ll be at home! Hmmm, I wonder how Spanish drinking games compare to American ones…

Xoxo,
Court