Arrival, Finally!

We're here! Thank God. It was.... quite a trip to Sagunto. We bought bus tickets to Valencia from Madrid, and so we left the hostel early in the morning and dragged our luggage all over the metro until we finally got to the bus station. But since neither of us got physical tickets, we had to try and figure out everything before the bus came. I finally asked someone who knew where the bus line office was. I was so relieved! Everything was going to be okay.
   But... Within moments, the ALSA lady had informed me that our tickets were not to Valencia, the city, but to Valencia de don Juan, a bus station west of Madrid. In the opposite direction. That was so depressing! I just wanted to sit down on the bus and let it take me to where I needed to be.
   The lady wrote down a metro station we should go to and what line to take. I plodded up the stairs.
   I told Steven, who pointed out that this would be funny later. "Maybe..." Someday, far, far in the future. But even though it was extremely frustrating, I still felt proud that we were figuring out the metros and buses on zero experience.
   We dragged our stuff back onto the metro. Thankfully, we just had to ride one metro almost to the end of the line; no more transferring or dragging our luggage up staircases. When we arrived at the metro station, we followed the signs to the bus station at ground level. We quickly found a couple tickets to Valencia, waited a few hours, and then got on the bus. We were a little nervous because we were technically only allowed 30 kg each. I had about 33 kg and Steven had 45 kg. And that wasn't even including our carry-on bags! But thankfully, we just pushed our bags in the bus's underbelly and handed our ticket to the driver.
  It was so nice to see the boys dean! Finally we were just a short car ride away from school. I had already started to think of it as home; home, where everything would be taken care of and I wouldn't have to drag 40 kg around.
   Meet roommate, Ashley. Unpack. Shower. Sleep...
   No pictures. I didn't feel like documenting a very stressful, discouraging day!