(Puppy made of flowers)
I was extremely tired from the night before so I wasn't really up for a day of museum touring, but thankfully we were given audio tours and allowed to do what we wanted with the day. My friend Lizzie and I walked around a bit. Saw some crazy exhibits including these floor to ceiling LED lights telling a story and some giant steel sculptures presenting a theory of "time and matter." The entire second floor was dedicated to the architecht Frank Lloyd Wright. It had a bunch of his blueprints and models of his houses. It was all really interesting, but I can only take so much of one person. So we went upstairs where there were a bunch of paintings from the Guggenheim Collection from artists like Picaso, Van Gogh, Kandisnky, Dali, and so on.... It was a pretty barren museum compared to the ones I've been to in New York and France, but it was cool to be able to go for free.
(Photo courtesy of Kate: The Guggenheim Museum)
I joined a bunch of girls for lunch further into town in this little restaurant that offered a three course meal for twelve euros. Not bad. Then I headed back for a much needed siesta. I don't know if I have mentioned anything about siesta here in Spain, but it's taken pretty seriously. Right around 2:00 everything closes for "siesta" where everyone either leaves work to take a nap or eat a huge meal. Going on a metro around 2:00 in the afternoon would make you think it was rushhour or something... And all the windows even have these metal screens to pull down that block out any light to come into the room. Kate and I tried pulling ours down one night and couldn't even wake up in the morning because it was so dark in our room we just wanted to keep sleeping.
Later on, a few of my friends and I went to Corte Ingles, that giant department store I mentioned earlier. I wanted to get a hair dryer and see if I could find rain boots. I got a hairdryer... but no rain boots. They had every other kind of boot, except for the ones I needed. You'd think they would have a whole section dedicated to rain boots for all the precipitation they get here. Oh well, the search continues....
(Better view of the Guggenheim on the Ria)
After my nap Kate told me she and the people she went around the museum with bought tickets for this event called Art After Dark, a party that was going to be held that night in the Guggenheim. I was bummed my group didn't think to get tickets earlier. Well we decided to get ready anyway and our friend Ashley who is staying in a family stay further away came and met us at our dorm. We wanted to get to the museum right around 10 to try and get tickets before they sold out. It took everybody a bit longer than we expected to get their act together so when we got there all the tickets were sold out! I was so disappointed! Kate and some others got to go in because they had tickets, but we had nothing left to do but go back to the dorm. Everyone wanted to go find somewhere else to go, but by this point in the night I wasn't actually feeling up for doing anything anymore, so i stayed in.Kate didn't come back to the room until 6:00 am the next morning! When I woke up Kate explained that after the Guggenheim Party a bunch of them went to this discoteca (nightclub) called Fever. She had a lot of fun, but everyone wanted to stay really late and when they tried to get home they had to wait for the Metro to get up and running again at 6. I definitely would not have been up for that. The Art After Dark thing happens every month, so I will definitely make sure to get tickets for next month's event. It wasn't one of the best nights of my stay here so far, but one night off never hurt anyone!
(Strange exhibit in the Museum)
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