seriously?

Ok, so yesterday was DEFINITELY the craziest day I have had since I arrived in this country. Of course, it was all Evan's fault. We had to run errands, a task that I thought would be accomplished promptly and effeciently. Of course, that was not the case. I went to the telephone place to get more money on my phone and we figured out that the reason that the money didn't go through was that I didn't even know my phone number. I had given the wrong phone number to the lady and to everyone I met. Cool, right? Evan met me there and we went along. Well, we started off by trying to find a gym. On the way, we pass a restaurant and there is a teenage boy running through the tables really quickly. The waiter and the customers yelled at him and made him stop and as they did a big pigeon flew away. He yelled back and his friend on a bicycle holds up his hand and shows that he is grasping a different pigeon. He yells, "¡Para comer!" (For eating!) and they run away. Evan and I just kind of stared for a second while the people at the restaurant carried on as normal... clearly. Well, we found the gym, and let's just say that it's not exactly what I would choose. At all. After the gym, we decided to buy train tickets for the trip to Madrid this weekend and also the weekend we are going to Oktoberfest. We get to the station, start trying to buy tickets, and discover that the trains are full for this weekend and the train schedule does not work with out plane schedule for the other weekend. Clearly, I begin freaking out at this point. We ask the lady what we can do, so she tells us to go to the bus station. Evan thinks this is a good idea. But I look out the door and see that it is pouring rain. I don't have my rain jacket with me, due to the fact that my madre swore to me up and down that morning that it wouldn't rain. So, I whine enough to keep us in the train station for another hour seeing if there is a way we can buy the bus tickets without going outside or going to the bus station. Clearly, there wasn't. So, Evan just tells me to suck it up and we head out. I am wearing flip-flops and am incredibly grossed out that the water in the streets is touching my feet, sure that it contains feces and STD's. Evan, obviously, had no idea where we were going, so we ended up walking through Chinatown. As if being in Spain isn't culture shock enough, we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by only Asians in the middle of Spain. Awkward. We got out of Chinatown and then into a really sketchy area. As we walked past a strip club named "5 Soles" (5 Suns), an incredibly unattractive woman whistled at us from the front door. So... we made out with her. Aaaaahahaha. I kid. We looked at our shoes and kept walking. We finally found the bus stop to get taken to the bus station, and we waited in the little shelter thing while some unbathed men smoked cigarettes next to us. Needless to say, I was furious. When our bus finally arrived, this crazy woman with a huge umbrella jumped right in front of me to get on. Obviously, she didn't have her bus pass out, so she stood in the doorway to the bus, closed her umbrella, and searched for her bus pass. I literally had to stand in the rain glaring at her for a full minute while Evan laughed. Then, as she started to get on the bus, she fell. We think she was drunk. And she had bright orange hair. It was awesome. So, we crack up almost the whole way to the bus station. On the way, we begin talking to this Spanish girl who tells us she will help us get our tickets. She spent the next 30 minutes talking to the guy behind the counter, and even got us into a booked bus. Awesome. We got her number and plan on going out with her at some point. Then, Casey and Corrinne met us and drama ensued as they made everything crazy for about 30 minutes. But, we went to a bar and had some tapas and Agua de Valencia, which essentially is a mimosa. That calmed everyone down... and made us all a little giggly. So, after that was over, we decided that we all needed to go home and finish up our homework. So, we get on the bus, and true to form, Casey is speaking in incredibly loud English. As soon as she gets off the bus, Evan turns to the lady next to us and says, "Ella es un problema un publico." (She is a problem in public.) The lady just stares at him in utter disgust and then looks away. I know that look so well because I give it to people all the time. When she did that, I absolutely LOST IT. Evan turns to me and I just bust out laughing and I laugh so hard that I start doing my laugh that sounds like a donkey. Evan and I are both laughing to the point of tears, and it lasts until we get off the bus. We think that laughing loudly in that woman's face served her for serving Evan. So there. I went to the locutorio for a minute, went home, talked with my madre about American Idol, read, and went to bed. All in all... amazing day.