Lisa´s here!

Started the day at the Palace. I figured, i should probably see SOMETHING in madrid before i leave. I kinda feel a bit bad cause pretty much all i´ve been doing is just going out partying at night, and bumming around during the day. Haven´t seen any museums, or historical monuments or anything. I was kinda waiting to do it with Lisa, but i´m getting sick of madrid already and don´t know if i really want to hang around for 3 more days here.

The palace was pretty cool. Big, Old, but still very well maintained. Vastly different from all the palaces i´d seen in china which were also old, but in a tacky sort of way. Each room had a completley different theme, and there so much effort had gone into the decoration of each, it was amazing! There were frescos on almost every ceiling, some even had porcelain shapes in 3D that matched the wall paper. Lots of ornamental furniture, portraits and statues of kings/queens, tapestries that covered an entire wall, marble floors, that kinda thing. I took lots of photos, but there´s no flash allowed, and it was kinda dark inside, so well see how they turn out.

AFter the palace, i got a messages from lisa saying she was at the airport getting her luggage and would be there soon. So i went home to meet her. I figured she´d be there by the time i managed to get there, we´d have lunch, get her settled in at the hostel, and maybe see some sights in the arvo. Unfortunatley it took her 1.5 hours to get her luggage, and she didn´t arrive until 3pm. I was so glad to see her when she go there, both herself and her 25Kg´s of luggage (Already)! Why the hell she needs so much stuff is way beyond me! But apparently she bought alot of stuff in the US. From what i could gather she spent a few whole days just shopping in NY. Now i have shopping envy. All i´ve managed to buy are a pair of shoes for going out in. She´s also got me a little paranoid that i don´t have enough stuff. Once i take my down jacket out of my back pack it´s practically half empty, and i have to use all the clothes i have to cushion that bottle of wine i´ve got at the bottom of the bag. I guess i could always buy more stuff, now i´ve got Lisa the shopping guru with me, it can´t be THAT hard!

Maybe we´ll try to see the Prado today. We´re going to granada this arvo. Apparently there´s an alhambra there. Lisa says it´s really worth seeing. Damned if i know what it is though.