Sunday in Madrid

I woke up went to breakfast then went to mass then came back to the hotel and slept all day then went to dinner. that is pretty much my day. that was my Sunday.

Ok well i have to go pack now.

Saterday afternoon in madrid

so i already blogged about the fact that i saw the Pope and i posted the picture. In the afternoon i had lunch with Laura, Kristen, Devan and Emily. Then Laura Devan and Emily whent to the grosry store to get some snacks for the trip out to the air field and Kristen showed me a few of the more reasonable priced souvenir shops so i did not spend more than i needed to. When we came back we had about a half an hour before we were planing on leaveing for the air field and at that point i was not shore if i was even going to go out there that night or if i would just go out on sunday morning for the mass because i knew there was a group that was not going to stay the night no matter what happened.

But i decided i would go out there and if i found the rest of the group who was planning on staying the night then i would stay with them. So when i came down stairs to the lobby Father, Veronica, and Johnathen were waiting. When we were on our way out the door to the metro Carla & Gabbie came down but they wanted to walk the entier 5 miles from the start point to the air field and Father, Veronica, Johnathen and i were going to take the metro to the closest stop then walk the last mile or so in. So we left and when we got on the metro it was semi packed but it got even more so with every stop the train made. We finally go to our stop and off the train and headed up there were so many people that we did not really need any direction as to were to go. It was really hot but luckily there were more than a few residence who either had a hose out the window or were pouring buckets of water over there balconies onto the passing pilgrims and filling our water bottles which was ausom because it was really hot. We finally made it to the air field and got in and there were just so many people that we decided unless we found our group we were not staying. Unenforenetly we did not find anyone from our group so father and i headed back to the hotel and we got back just in time for the vigil to start. after the vigal Father, Larry and i went out to dinner. When i got back to the room after dinner Carla was in the shower and Gabbie was on her bed on the computer and we both said at the same time "I thought you were staying the night!" then Gabbie asked about father making shore he was ok and i said we had just come back from dinner. then i fell asleep.

picture of pope

Here is my picture of the pope

Pope Siteing

This morning i over slept again. The reason i say i over slept is because i was planing on going to mass at the Love and Life center at 9:30am this morning. But when i did not wake up until 10 before 8 i decided to just come down for breakfast and see if anyone else had missed mass. When i got down here i ran into Veronica and we talked while we ate then father joined us and after we were finished eating father went out get his morning paper from the stand down the street and there were cops every about 20ft as far as the eye could see on the street. So Father asked one of the police officers and i asked one of the pilgrims that was sitting next to the news stand and they both said that the pope would be passing right in front of our hotel in a bout a half hour so i staid down stairs and held a spot for father and i while he went upstairs. When he did finally come by he went by so fact that i only got one picture but luckily it was a good one. I am working on getting the picture up now but it will be here by Sunday night as were will be at the air field tonight.

More latter

Madrid day 5

Today is Friday. Today Gabbie answered the phone when her mom called so i did not have to wake up to answer the phone as she did so i ended up sleeping til round 10am which meant i did not go to the catechetical session neither did Carla and Gabbie. So we went down for breakfast and while we were eating we ran into Kattie and her brother Tyler. We told them about the meeting with the arch-bishop of Seattle and what time we were meeting in the lobby and it was a good thing we ran into them because they did not know what time we were meeting in the lobby or anything about the meeting. By the time i got back up to the room and out of the shower i only had about an hr and a half before i had to be in the lobby so i just updated the blog, wathced some tv, and listened to what ever Carla and Gabbie were playing on Carla's computer. then it was time to meet in the lobby so we went down. When we got down there i thought maybe they had left early which was ok with me because i had scouted out the rout with Larry yesterday so i knew how to get there, but it turned out that they had everyone had went down to get lunch before we left. So after everyone had gotten back and eaten we left for that meeting.

The meeting went well it was really hot in the room. But it was cool to see all of the fellow Washingtonians who were here at world youth day in Madrid. I even saw Sarah and Twan which was really cool because i did not know they were coming to Madrid. So the meeting was really more of a prayer and information session. We even got to meet the niece of a soon to be saint. After the meeting our group split into two groups one group went back toward the hotel and the other half stopped for lunch. After lunch we all came back to the hotel and went to our rooms. After a few hours i decided to venture out on the town by my self. I might have figured out what happened with my breathing after the welcome mass while i was out because it happened again while i was out. But i pushed through it and walked around for at least a half hour before i finally had to turn around and come back to the hotel. Im not shure if it was the fact that there were a tone of people or that i was alone or the fact that i am in a foreign country or a combination of all these things. I am going to let Gabbie use the computer before she falls asleep then i am going to try to upload pictures to the blog. I have tried two or three time today but i kept lousing my internet connection.

Madrid day 4

I woke up to Gabbies mom calling. After that i couldnt get back to sleep so i just went down to breakfast. After breakfast we went to the caticesis then had mass. Then i came back to the hotel and dropped my backpack off and only cept my camera, metro pass, id, and credit card and went to lunch with Larry and Father. After lunch Larry and i scouted out the route to the archbishops hotel. It was a good thing to because we got sort of lost but we found a map and were able to find our way. It tuned out that it was a good thing we scouted it out because it actually took a little longer that we thought. Then on our way back the metro was really packed so we decided to take another rout back to the hotel but then decided that since we were already on the train headed to the love and life center we would just stay on the train and go over there and see what was going on over there. but when we got over there everyone was leaving. We ran into a few people from our group and we stood and talked a little, then we went our seperate ways again and i stayed with Larry. The train that would lead directly to our stop was relly packed so we decided to again take another rout back. but we ended up having to walk from one stop farther away because our stop was closed. then i watched the popes arival and mass on the TV. I will be adding pictures when i get back from our meeting with the archbishop.

Madrid day 2

We met as an entire group in the morning and prayed and talked about the day we had had on Monday, like the fact that not all of the restrants that accept the meal passes are sit down some are you get your food and go. Then when we were done a group including me decided to go to one of the art museums then to the love and life center. By the time we got to the museum half the group decided to just go on and go straight to the love and life center. But i decided that since i was already at the museum i would try to get in but when we found the line we found out that it would have been a 3hr wait to get in so we decided to go to a church that was behind the museum instead. The church was cool it was beautiful but i think they were getting ready for mass so we left. Then we headed over to the Love and Life center and cot the end of the kick off bash and had lunch. We decided to leave about 3:45. The group split again and i went with Carla and Gabbie back to the hotel and the rest of the group headed to Sabelis square. When we got back to the hotel Gabbie and Carla decided they were not going go to mass so i filled all of my water bottles and went down to the lobby and waited for father and Larry to come down and head to the square for mass. We did not make it all the way to the square because there were so many people but we were able to see a screen so we were able to follow along in out magnificat. Father parts and we split everything else up between the rest of the group. Then on our way back our group got split up and i ended up with just Larry and Father. I had a small breathing issue not sure exactly why because i had been drinking water ALL day long and i had a fan to keep a little cooler. We stopped on our way back toward the hotel and had dinner. Then headed back to our hotel and i went to bed.