Location: Malaga
This morning started early with a walk to the taxi to drop off the first load of students leaving for the airport; there were many tears shed, many kisses blown, and many hugs given. Later, we walked back to drop off Rook and Andrew! We miss them all already. We went for lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe with Henry, Lizzy, Dylan, Maya, and her sister. The day moved slowly as each student left the boat, leaving just the 4 of us. Once everybody was gone, we started a mini boat appreciation with the staff. All of us went with Charlie to a laundromat in the city after it was done to clean our personal clothes, as well as all the boat’s dirty sheets from our last trip. We loaded all of the laundry into the machines and started them all.
While waiting for the laundry, we started playing games, like Red Light, Green Light, and 500 Alve with Avery’s flipflop. It got pretty intense. In the middle of playing the games, all of the machines stopped abruptly.
We thought that they were finished cleaning, but in reality, the power for the block had gone out. As it turns out, neither the locking mechanisms for the laundromat door nor for the machines were able to be manually unlocked, so we were left with our laundry stuck in the middle of a foreign city and the cold air from the A/C blowing out of the door. Charlie called customer service, and after trying to decipher what they were saying in Spanish unsuccessfully, Avery managed to get them to send a worker down to the store. Unfortunately, he seemed just as lost as we were. After complaining about the lights for 45 minutes, he went back to the gas station. Nothing in our situation had changed. Charlie called Zac to take his position and took Ella and Brig with him back to the boat. After an hour of sitting in the laundromat and Logan’s phone dying, we decided to call customer service again. This time, they sent a woman who knew what she was doing (not really) back with the other guy. They told us not to touch the handles
of the machines, and, misinterpreting their Spanish, Zac went over and turned the handles of like four machines. We all got yelled at, and then they left again. After another hour, around 5:30, we (Avery, Logan, Zac) decided to take the (still very sopping wet) clothes that were in the unlocked dryers and find a taxi. It took another 20 minutes of walking, carrying all of the wet laundry in a fitted sheet across the city because we couldn’t find the laundry bags. After our laundry trip, we had a delicious dinner made by Charlie before our final laundry trip of the night! In the end, Zac took Avery and Ella back to the laundromat around 10:00 pm We switched all of our locked clothes into dryers that somehow made our clothes more wet, but we couldn’t rewash them because all he machines stopped working at 10:30 when the store closed. We cut our losses and walked back with again sopping wet laundry, but at least it was clean!!