It's Cold Outside - Day 1

So Daniel and I made it. He slept most of the flight away and watched Funny People while I slept off and on and read. The flight was not bad at all. The meals were quite nice actually. Dinner was a sizable piece of rosemary chicken, a salad, two pieces of bread, a slice of monterrey jack cheese, and tira misu.

Breakfast was half of a ham and swiss sandwich and strawberry yogurt (which I actually ate Jaime). Overall SAS was really nice. We sat in the very last row of the plane, so it was pretty loud. When we got off the plane we were both exhausted. We sat in Starbucks for about an hour trying to let our minds catch up to the rest of us while we sipped our $4.00 cup of coffee.

Eventually we got the nerve to head toward our Hostel we had made reservations for, DanHostel. We bought a ticket for the Metro and preceded to the station. Had it not been for a very nice Dane that helped us we would have taken the Metro to the end of the line. It's a little bit different than our trains. When you hop on a woman/man comes around to check your ticket. If you don't have one or have the wrong one you get a fat fine. When we got off the train we located our hostel on the map and started walking. It was probably half a mile or so, but we had all of our luggage, so it felt like 3.

Once we arrived at the Hostel they wouldn't let us check in until 2:00 pm. We had to wait 4 hours, so we went to a small grocery and I got an apple juice and Dan got what appeared to be European Sunny Delight. Then we walked back to the hostel because it was so cold and the time difference was starting to hit us pretty hard. We ended up sleeping in the cafe and lounge for a while before they let us in a little early. It was alright, a full room - 8 people - but most of them were DIS students as well. Daniel and I took a nap until we got up for dinner.

We walked around looking for places to eat on the cheap. We settled on some place that looked warm. It was... and expensive. Daniel and I each had one beer and a chicken ceaser salad. It was tasty, and it was also $61.30. We sat there trying to justify it by saying, " wow, the chicken is cooked perfectly," and," they do know how to make good beer, how's yours?" All we could do is shake our heads.

We went back to the Hostel and stopped in a 7/11 so I could get some emergency sugar just in case the salad wasn't enough. I got a small Snickers for just over 2 bucks. We hustled back and played some scrabble slam and went to bed.