No, I don´t know where I´m going. But as I climb the stairs out of the Metro station I see this sign.
Okay. Yes, I´m in the right place.
I told Joao that I wouldn´t be able to drop in on him until Friday since we had some visits to the Prado and the Reigna Sophia to do. (BTW - those museums are awesome. Works from Picasso and many other famous artists I have never seen before--even in books.)
I walk around to the tower. Okay, big sign but no sign of the exhibition. There´s a museum nearby so I pull out my handy dandy language translator and learn how to ask for directions. When I go in the lady walks me out and points speaking in Spanish the whole way.
I don´t know if she fully understood my question. But the "Star Wars" part of it was very difficult to misunderstand.
It took a bit of doing but I found the entrance. There was a Jedi Knight school. Very interesting. I walk in. The security people say that the exhibition doesn´t open until tomorrow. I say, yes, I know that I´m looking for Joao and I have his phone number but it´s a Portuguese number and he asked me to meet him here.
I show them the slip with all of his handwriting and she says "Ah...Lucasfilm?" And I say, "Si!"
Another security person walks me down and tells me where to go. He also says there is a big press thing going on right now. Uh oh. I should have called.
I walk down to the entrance. A bit intimidated because I´m literally seeing about 7 news crews just from the entrance shooting stuff. (There were many more than that there.) Giving myself a moment I notice a man who obviously works there with his back to me.
Taking a closer look after I get my bearings I tap him on the shoulder.
"Alice!"
It´s Joao.
He takes me around and we take photos. The news crews are having a lot of fun and are really excited. I´ll talk more about the exhibition at the next entry.
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