it may be a little overwhelming reading this e-mails jumping around, i am sorry. hopefully next time i will have more time to explain it all. i love you guys!thank you mom and dad you are wonderful. We made another video about our day today but i figured i might as well write in case we don't get them up soon. so...we woke up this morning about 6am our time and showered, got ready and ate breakfast in time to walk to our pick up station at 7:30ish. our bus took us to another bus and we started our DAY LONG tour. It began with Windsor which was absolutely incredible!!! we saw so much art and architecture along with very unique fun facts. my favorite was seeing a doll house that was the same layout as windsor castle and when i say same i mean gold plates, jewel room, completely furnished identically. we have plenty of pictures onces again and then were off to Bath. we were all a little unsure of what to expect here but it was beautiful. the drive was pure greeness...hills, trees, and then lots of cows. also, tiffany, one of the girls i am with knows everything about milk so that opened a pretty good convo. the bath's were great-hard to explain but really cool. They are like hot springs-we were able to drink water from it too. :) they held really interesting stories within the walls and made us all want to see how it would have been back in the day.then we had massive heart to hearts on the ride to our next destination-STONEHENGE!!! And wow, I know it sounds cool, but to actually stand there and jump in front of it, do cartwheels, and pretend to kick, hold, and kiss the stones is amazing-yes we did all of that. It was such an incredible feeling. We then came back and when we got off the bus we walked to a pub called “alberts” and picked up dinner-some fish and chips and beverages with a side of tarder sauce and a seared lemon haha….it was delicious with the exception of the skin they left on half the fish….but don’t you fret we still ate it  after that the guys working there told us we only had about 6 minutes to catch the last underground so he pointed one way and we RAN….but didn’t see it so we asked some girls and they pointed the other way back toward alberts so we we RAN again….and then some guys pointed another direction and we RAN yes again. When we found it, it was closed  so then we went next door and asked for a map to find our way home when we came to find that the guy at the restaurant was joking and the underground had hours left….that one stop in particular was shut down haha. How funny is that!! Lol. Then we finally got home, made our recap video and discussed our schedule for tomorrow. So tomorrow we have in store for us, dealing with our flights for Thursday morning, the changing of the guards hopefully, walking to the gardens, grabbing lunch and then going to the tower of London. Which will be followed up by getting dressed up and going to dinner and a play. Thursday morning we will be waking up and leaving our hostel at 5:30 and London by 9 to hit the Madrid. What a life huh??? We were thinking today how lucky we are- I mean cal poly starts classes today and we are inside castles and laughing on world known destinations. It is absolutely perfect and we are sad to leave but excited for our next stop!! I love you guys!

So now we are in Madrid and it has been fantastic. The last couple of days we have seen just about all of Madrid, Toledo, el Escorial, and the valley of the falling. We have encountered a variety of foods which has been a blast…some delicious and some not so delicious. We have done a lot of walking and getting to know more people in the group. We went out for the first time last night and it is crazy how late this town is alive. We saw people up and about until 3 to 4 am….not just kids but guys in business attire and others just out to have a cup of coffee-I have never seen anything like it. The last few days have been very full and long. Today we were up by eight and just got back…it is a little after eight pm. We have an hour or so of nap time or whatever else we want to do and then dinner at 9:30. Tomorrow we are going to go try to get a phone plan so the students in the program will be able to stay in contact when we go to Valladolid. When we get there we will be living all over the city and may or may not have any classes together. Anyways, I will do my best to keep up with updates here and there but it is going to get a little hectic when we leave Madrid. I love you all and would love to hear what you have been up to 