Salamanca and the final game

So Day 1 in Spain, Abby, Ali and myself went to a college town about a little more than an hour outside of Plasencia. It is actually the home of the universidad de Salamanca. It's like the Yale or Harvard/Oxford or Cambridge of Spain. So, we went there and just walked around and did some shopping, and even though I thought I was going to hate the shopping part, I actually kind of enjoyed it. Below are pictures of Salamanca...



Later we went back to Plasencia for Dom's final basketball game. I sat next to this super fan, who was kind of out of control. The constant drums and whistles made it quite different than a game in the US. Also the game was MUCH more physical than the US game. I actually liked it much better than the US game. Well anyway, it was the 3rd game of a best of 5 playoff series, and my friends team was down 0-2 and they ended up losing by 1 point, and obviously were swept. Below are pictures from the game



After the game a bunch of team members came to my friend's apartment and we went out and hit the town pretty hard. We ended up meeting a couple of players from the other team, and hung out with two Americans real tough, one was from Baton Rouge and one was from Philadelphia. It was interesting, the nights start late and go late around here, so I don't think we went to sleep until around 7am or so. The night actually ended with us leaving Dom's teammate Kris' apartment RIGHT before the police came. This was right after his next door neighbor cursed us out for being too loud. Fun times! Below are pictures from the night out