Spring Break - Day 2 (still in Madrid)

More amazing weather and no alarm clock. We decided to go to the grocery store and get some food for lunch rather than eat at a restaurant. I got a 1.5 L bottle of water for 40 or 60 cents, usually you pay 2 euro for 0.5 L, so that was great. We had a picnic in Plaza Mayor after discovering that Plaza del Villa wasn't really a picnic-having place. Next, we went to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, which is free after 2:30 on Saturdays. This is the museum where Guernica is kept. It's HUGE, we saw a temporary exhibit and the floor with Guernica and were ready to leave, there were two more floors. We didn't want to stay inside on such a nice day though. Afterwards we had no plans so Becky got a Starbucks and we just sat outside for a long time. Then we went up to Puerta del Sol, it wasn't much to see, especially since it had a big construction wall around it. I searched for Kilometer Zero for a while, in vain. Km 0 is the marker from which all distances in Spain are measured, kinda cool I thought, but apparently nobody else cares because there wasn't a mass of people around it. Oh well. There was supposed to be a "paella party" at the hostel so we'd planned on that for dinner. Well, it turned out to be buy-a-drink-and-get-a-scoop-of-paella party, at least it was good paella and I had some sangria. During this we were chatted up by a film major from Ithaca University. After dinner, sitting in the common area, another guy started talking to us. Apparently Becky and I are very approachable people.