I only have time for a short post today, but here is some more about Madrid...
We danced and ran around El Kapital for about three hours before deciding to go home. There were six of us in our group so while we always stayed in pairs or larger, we got separated a few times. Luckily we picked a meeting place for 3am and at 3am we all met and let the club. As I said before, El Kapital wasn't that far away from our hotel. When we walked there, Colin's cousins were directing us, but they were gone and so we had to figure it out ourselves. We hadn't been to this part of town during the day so we were a little confused.
We almost got a cab, but we decided we didn't want to split up since the cabs could only take three of us at a time, and on top of that the cab that we stopped didn't know the street of our hostel. We continued to walk for a while and figured out where we were. We were walking down a street when Daphne got to the corner, looked right to the perpendicular street and announced that she saw our hostel. About the same time as Daphne saw our hostel, a group of three guys walked through our group. Next thing I knew, one of the guys ran up behind me, pushed Erin and ripped her purse off of the straps and ran away. Everyone screamed, Peter and I were the closest to her and both grabbed the guy and pulled him away from her before he ran away.
She was shaken up but we got her inside and called her banks to cancel her cards. She lost her camera, wallet and money, but luckily we locked up our passports in the hostel before we left. The hostel cameras weren't able to catch it on tape because he mugged her right around the corner from the hostel door, where there were no cameras on that street.
Today I went to Lit in Time and Poetry and got lunch with Sammie. I'm going out to dinner now, but I'll finish about the Madrid trip later or tomorrow. Thankfully Erin is ok and that was the worst thing that happened.
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