Dancing, Drinking, and Beaching
Trip Start
Jun 28, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 01, 2008
San Sebastian,
Spain and Canary Islands
Sunday, July 27, 2008
So while Edie and Andrew finished watching the game, I, being upset with the score and figuring it was better for the overall wellbeing of my night to cut my loses, hang out with my new friends. The group also had three new people with them, Meagan (from Texas and North Carolina), Julia (from Quebec), and Steven (from Germany). Andrew and Edie eventually came over and the whole group danced to the, once again, good music with bad transitions. Oddly enough, most songs that were played around 10pm got repeated about 2 hours later. But at least they were good songs.
After a while, the group headed out to another bar. This place was big and had a really cool (although potentially either sketchy or useful) downstairs with lots of nooks and a pool table. Sadly not useful for me, but I definitely saw some other people having some fun since you had to walk through the entire downstairs to get to the bathroom. Andrew and Edie eventually left so that Edie could go meet her cab for the airport and after dropping Edie off at the hostel, Andrew made his way back to the bar.
I am not sure what time we headed to the club, but it was probably around 3:30am. The club was a lot of fun, despite Andrew's disappointment that there wasn't enough hip-hop played, but more reggae-ton and then later in the night some really good techno. I lost Andrew in the crowd at some point (I think there may have been a brunette involved) and Jonathan and Julia also disappeared. Meagan, Marie, Chris, Steven, and Konrad danced the night away along. The guys did a good job of keeping the sketchy guys in the club at bay, which was definitely helpful.
I think the club closed around 6am, and with Andrew nowhere to be found (although I didn't do a great job looking and never checked downstairs), the remaining group headed to get pizza at the some local restaurant. Around this point I got a text from Andrew about where I was and realizing the time, I headed to the hostel to grab my stuff (thank god I packed earlier!), check out, and head to the train station. Sorry mom and dad, but I definitely have had my first drunken train station navigation experience. Andrew and I, having first class Eurail passes due to our age, took advantage of the first class lounge with free food and drinks, and then boarded the train to sleep the whole ride to San Sebastian.
We arrive in San Sebastian, tired, potentially hung over, and ready to relax. (My chest was also killing me from sleeping on the train!) After checking in at the hostel we walked to the train station to figure out the plan for our trip to Paris. A total pain since we can get tickets for French trains in Spain and since we need a reservation for the TGV, we need to finagle a few things. But such is life.
After this we spent the afternoon relaxing on the beach (I actually have a tan which is unheard of for me!) before heading back to the hostel for showers, computer time, and to meet up with Pradeep (the guy we met in Barcelona). We are now headed out to get food and then go on a pub crawl in preparation for the start of bday celebrations at midnight.
