Crazy weather.

So the weather here is even more ridiculous than Texas, and you all know that´s sayin something. Our first few days were beautiful, and then on our last day in Madrid it rained. It didn´t rain during the day we were in Toledo, but it was definately cooled down quite a bit because of the rain, and that has persisted. It has rained pretty much every day at some point, but usually just a little sprinkle, or at night. Yesterday was the best, though. Here is the weather as I saw it, in chronological order: sunny with not a cloud in sight; very cloudy with sprinkles and LOTS of thunder; cloudy but dry; sunny and clear; FREAK HAILSTORM; sunny rain; clear skies and dry ground, cloudy and sprinkling, clear and nice again. It was ridiculous.

The hail was the craziest. Our hostal is 3 stories tall, with rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors on the perimeter. the middle of the building is all open, so from the rooms on the third floor you can look down into the common area whre the couches are, and at the top the cieling is glass windows. well today we had a freak hail storm (the hail was the size of marbles! it was crazy!) and luckily we were alredy here at the hostal so we didn´t get caught in it outside. anyways, we were all looking out on the patio at the crazy hail and then we heard commotion coming from the common area - one of the pipes or something up at the cieling was leaking like mad and the entire area was flooded! I´m not kidding when I say that in that little area of the common room it was raining just as hard as it was outside. there was hail all over the couches and the computers got wet - it was bad news, but it was really funny.

Well I´m hoping to go out and enjoy my last little day in Granada, but its sprinkling right now and it´s stinkin cold, so we´ll see. Worst comes to worst, I´ll stay in and have my new friend Pierre teach me how to rock at ping pong. :)

Love you all... bye!