First Post from Spain - Day One - Friday

I'll attempt to bring you up to speed on out trip so far...  After a long overnight flight from Miami, we landed in Madrid early Friday morning.  We took a cab ride to our hotel and dropped our bags off and headed out to check out the neighborhood and grab a cafe con leche.  Day one was pretty frustrating.  We rode the metro to Santiago Bernabau (home of Real Madrid football club) and tried to get tickets to the Sunday game.  We tried to change dollars to euros, but couldn't find a bank that would do it.  We ended up taking a tour of the stadium which was fun and then headed back to the hotel.  Both Shanna and I were falling asleep on the metro and in our sleepy state we missed a connection and had to backtrack in order to get back to our hotel.  Rather than going straight to bed at 6:30PM we showered and headed out for tapas and a beer.  I think we rallied for half an hour before crashing again.  The Spaniards were just starting to come out as we had our low point and we headed back to the hotel room for some much needed sleep.  Our room overlooked the street and we spent a restless night listening to the locals enjoying a Friday night/Saturday morning out enjoying themselves.  About the time they quieted down, the garbage trucks started making their way through the street.