Oh 2011, you were started off on the right foot. The NYE festivities began with the entire tour group going to an early dinner. We had 9 or 10 different tapas dishes and endless Sangria. In Spain on New Year’s Eve, everything closes between 9pm and 12am since all the families celebrate new year’s with a traditional dinner before going out and celebrating, so we stopped by a convenience store, picked up 3 bottles of champagne and some grapes, and headed back to the hotel to get ready. We hung out on our balcony with until around 10:30 and then met up with Garrett’s childhood friend, Katie, who is currently teaching English in Madrid. Her friends apartment happened to be right across the street from us. We met all of her friends who were also teaching English abroad, all recent college grads from Georgia, Virginia, Florida and two friends from England. We played some good ol’ American college drinking games before heading to the Plaza del Sol to watch the bell drop. When we got off the subway into the Plaza del Sol, it was pure chaos. EVERYONE was running through the winding streets and screaming, all in the same direction towards the center of the city wearing masks, wigs, glasses, noisemakers, etc. By the time we made it to the plaza, it was completely full but we managed to all squeeze into a really good spot to watch the clock strike twelve and eat our grapes. Hopefully the videos can illustrate how crazy and fun it was.
We were really lucky to be with some Americans living in Madrid who let us come along. Afterwards, we went to some bars and roamed the streets and ended up getting hungry (of course). Oh… and we found some big pink glasses along the way which we really took a liking to...
-B
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