Al Ferial!

Last Thursday, Caceres had a massive gathering on the outside of the city to welcome the arrival of spring. By massive gathering on the outside of the city, I mean that everyone in the city under the age of 30 went to a field/parking lot out in the middle of nowhere. What was the idea? Basically, to drink, meet new people, hang out with friends, and drink. No, that was not a typo. It may seem absolutely pointless, but I actually had a good time. It was another all-night event, but like everything else, it went by too fast. Unlike the carnival at Badajoz, however, there were no porta-johns or bathrooms of any kind. Unless you count bushes and sneaking behind cars. Yuck. Now, I could rough if it I had to, but considering that there were at least a couple thousand people out, I just wasn't quite brave enough to "take a squat". So, Kerry and I decided to walk away from the crowd to a quieter area, but no matter where we went, there was always at least one small group of people around, so there was absolutely no privacy. We saw some lights up ahead of us that looked like a gas station, so we went in that direction. Please don't think we were two girls walking alone at night. There were still people around and my roommate and his friend were just feet ahead of us. By this time, we needed a bathroom. And I mean we really needed a bathroom. Well, we never found a gas station, but we were able to get into a cafe as it was closing. Despite a lack of toilet paper, just seeing a actual toilet was like seeing a glimpse of Heaven. Even though we took a bus to the fairground, we decided to walk back to the city, which took less than an hour. Our group decided to go to Pans & Company, a popular fast food joint that's open 24/7. However, when we finally got there, there was already give or take 100 people in the restaurant with an enormous line outside. We thought we'd go for churros but didn't think the churreria was open yet. So, we just went home. I slept for 10 hours.