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Ok here it is the story everyone has been waiting for. My adventures in the Madrid emergency room... We flew into Madrid on Friday night. We took a taxi to our hotel, and upon being dropped off we realized the streets were lined with prostitutes. Ok. So we make it to our hotel and the view is beautiful! Saturday we walked around and then went to the Spanish castle wow it was huge. Simply amazing I loved it so much! We walked around the streets and sat down for awhile. Jade and Todd left for a walk and Ashley and I were just sitting there when all of a sudden my eye started to itch and burn. I turned to Ashley and asked her if there was something on my eye. Her reply ...

"O my gosh girl your eye is swelling up so fast! You need to run to the bathroom run!" That's a direct quote now add in her laughter as she is saying it. So obviously I take off to the bathroom. The whole time thinking I am going to look like hitch. I was not disappointed, I did. My eye had this huge bubble under it! I put my sunglasses on and ran to Ashley

"We need to go to the pharmacia now! Lets go."

Ashley laughing "do you want to finish your fries first."

Me pissed off "I am having a severe allergic reaction, we need to go now!" In my head I am thinking you have an asthmatic severe peanut allergy boyfriend you should be handling this better. So we go to the pharmacia. It's closed! In Spain they close things from like 2 until 5. It was pretty annoying at that moment. So we go to the next one also closed. Me not pleased. We finally find one and I walk in ask if they have anything for allergic reactions. Pull down my sunglasses, and these women start talking very quickly in Spanish. That was not comforting. So they disappear into the back for like 5 minutes and come back out with this cream (all I wanted was Benadryl) . So I put it on and it goes down a bit it was great. That was our first da in Spain.

Day 2

The next morning my eye had gone down inside but more had swollen so I put my cream on and we went to the market. I got really cool pants!! The market is soo cool! There are just tons of shops on all the streets in the neighborhood area! So great! We walked around for hours and hours it was my favorite thing in Spain! We were so exhausted we went back to the hostel to take a nap. Next thing I know I am waking up Ashley is gone and my eye feels really funny. I look in the mirror and my actual eyeball has swollen quite large it is distorting my vision and is uncomfortable. I have included a diagram below

I walked down the hall tears filling my eyes. Todd is working in the lobby. I just stand there more tears in my eye he looks up I say there is something wrong with my eye. He takes one look at me and jumps up next thing I know we are out the door. We cross the street to the pharmacia and they take one look at me and go you need to take her to the hospital. Next thing I know we are in a cab on our way to the emergency room. I won't lie I was not a brave soldier at that moment I was crying a bit. We get there and it is just a hot mess. They won't do this and this, and blah blah. Not to mention it looks like the hospital has not been cleaned or updated since the mid 80's. socialized medicine I tell you America we need to fight. The whole thing was just a lot of waiting, then maybe 5 minutes max with the doctor (in a room with 5 other patients seeing doctors) I walk out of there hundreds of dollars poorer with eye drops for both an allergy and infection just in case. Pshh at least it was better thank goodness!

Well after that rough night I slept in. Then it was time for a day of exploration! We set off on our journey planning to go relax in the park, do hair wraps, just have a chill day, nope! I actually have blisters on my feet that is how much we walked! First we went into an Indian store where we went crazy. They had so many cool things there that we could not help ourselves we walked out of there very much poorer than when we walked in but I got a beautiful anklet, a purse, earrings, and more. I was very pleased with my purchases! We continued on our journey down to the Catedral (cathedral for those don't speak spanish lol) we obviously had to stop at the cathedral to take some photos. Ashley went off to take her regular one bazillion photos so i continued down the road the places here are amazing colorful historical just wonderful. I was walking down the road when I saw a convenient store. I needed water real bad so I had to stop. When you are buying water here though there are two kinds firgas and singas. One has gas infused in it, the other doesn't. I of course grabbed the gross gas one without realizing It, I was just really excited because they had monstrous sized otter pops!!! I quickly ran off to find Ashley! Upon finding her I looked at her and held up my water and saId "I have made a mistake"... We went back to the convenient store to obtain the giant popsicle for .20 cents he asked which one and I hurriedly said green! As we left i bit the top off and to my dismay green is not green apple, nor is it lime, nor is it even a fruity flavor, in fact green popsicles are toothpaste mint flavored. I looked at shley near tears (for I was very excited about this popsicle you see) and said "I have made a mistake." shley shared her Popsicle with me, that was very nice of her I knew I liked her. We continued on our journey, stopped at a couple museums, took more pictures, and then we decided to go into Bagetta or the colorful houses as we called it. This is an area that we probably should not go to... But the houses are cool and it was an adventure! We arrived at the giant steps that would lead us into the colorful houses, took a picture and were on our way. My heart was beating faster with every step, knowing we could get jumped at any minute (seriously though we could have) we went along being very stealth like trying not to be seen or heard, every voice or noise caused panic to rise. When we reached the top of one street a man came up and told Ashley to put her camera around her neck, and told us we needed to go, that shopping was a kilo away and pointed us in the out of this place direction, he was worried for us. That was when it got a little real. We left and headed back home. We are true explores we will be going back up to the colorful houses again.

~Megan

Ok let me set the scene for what could have been ranked in the top 5 scariest moments of my life... It's almost 3 am I am dead asleep on my air matress which is nestled in between the two beds snugly, one bed is almost directly in front of the door and the other is over by the window. Before going to bed I was listening to a book. The book has some scary parts in it. I was asleep at this scary part, but still listening to it when all of a sudden someone hisses my name! I was jolted awake in sheer terror to find ashley her face a foot from mine.

"jade is going to sleep in my dads room, you sleep in the bed"

"you just gave me a freaking heart attack!"

"I know it was so funny I have never seen you jump like that (oh just wait)! That's what happened to me on the beach earlier, take jades bed."

Me *grumble grumble... "there is stuff on it"

"move it"

I proceed to move the stuff to the floor keeping in mind I am half asleep, it is pitch dark, I don't even know what is really happening here. After I lay down and realize there is a blasted skateboard under my head I am just in a sleeping state of anger at that point. I lay back down and just as my head hits the pillow the door to our bedroom creaks open. I AM ON THE BED DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE DOOR!

Ashley "jade?"

Me *significantly louder* "jade?!?!?"

Ashley "turn on the light"

Me "it's right by the door, no!"

Ashley "just turn on the light!"

Me "I am not going to turn on the light! Did you lock the front door?"

Ashley "ya I did I locked it with the key."

The door creaks open even more. It is at that point that I am just purely scared. I rolled off of the bed onto the safety of my air mattress right next to shleys bed clutching a pillow. I don't know why I said this out loud if there is someone outside our door I invited them to have free reign basically when I said "we don't have any means to contact anyone that could help us Ashley, no phones we don't even know what the number for 911 is over here," (its not 911) "we are going to die!" I am ashamed to say there may have been a few tears. Ashley says "oh my goodness you are right!" it is at that moment the door SLAMS! I had some sort of seizure where I tried to push myself through the frame of Ashley's bed to get even further from the door. All while clutching my pillow! It is now that I am even more ashamed I was straight up bawling into that pillow. Ashley goes "the window is open, that's why the door slammed. Are you crying?"

Me "yes I am crying! I was woken from the dead of sleep, and now doors are slamming! Yes I am crying!"

We did a quick run through of the house to make sure everything was closed and locked. And returned to bed. I was not a happy camper. I layed there thinking to myself I was right in front of the door and Ashley wouldn't let me close it. She is mean. Anyways the whole ordeal taught me that will not survive an attack at night, I will just be an emotional wreck in a ball holding a pillow crying.

~Megan

Well if my skin doesn't all fall off it will be a miracle! We woke up and again went to the beach, we are creatures of habit. We stayed there all afternoon it was so relaxing I listened to a book, swam in the frigid ocean, saw some cool fish, repeated the process! Then we had a meeting with one of the coolest women, she is a language instructor, she is going to teach us Spanish. But she was so nice she is going to find us surfing lessons so we fit in on the island, and she is very insightful she told jade to keep her eyes wandering and her heart will eventually know what it wants to do. Paraphrased that but it was a good lesson. After our meeting we headed back to the black sand beach equipped with our running gear and everything! Ashley and I set off on our run and ten steps into it we had to stop so she could pick up a rock... I instantly knew this was going to be the longest run of my life bless her heart and her creative mind. I just kept going. It aw Ashley who said lets run the entire beach, so I was game, as I am running I look back and no longer see her. So I do what I usually do and kept on going, took off my shoes ran in the water, it was sunset and there were waves I was incredibly beautiful. On my return run I see Ashley, on a rock.... I yelled out that she was easily distracted and kept running for a few minutes until I needed to walk. Then I see her sprint past me yelling "I was finding my zen Megan ". Guess its a good thing. I didn't even know her zen was lost. She was really just tired and needed the half hour break of sitting on a rock I am sure. Jk she is a creative soul. After I made it back wheezing and half dead we got into the ocean! Sun almost set, beautiful waves, cool water after running (which felt great on my sunburn which got significantly worse after laying out on the beach all day) and the pretty/sparkly black sand, it was wonderful. I just sat on the beach as it cooled down and enjoyed it all. Then we played paddle ball which was hard as we were tired and it was dark, but I still can't get enough of that game! We packed up and on the bus rehashed our childhood memories of jade never wanting to shower, and Ashley looking like a boy, can't forget my bushman eyebrows ha ha it aw great. Ashley finally showered (her hair was literally crunchy), and I am about to do the same! Then we are going to do these fun hair braids with beads! Can't wait! Love you all!

~Megan