A Highlighter Party in Plaza Universitat?!

After lunch today I went back to the University to watch a movie for my literature class on the projector screen in a classroom. We finished the movie around 8:15 PM, and I left with Mary and Sam, my walking buddies, to go home for dinner. Across the street from school, in the Plaza Universitat, we saw a huge crowd of people (probably 1500 people!) dressed in bright colors and we could hear loud American music blasting from speakers. Being the curious students that we are, we had to investigate.

What we found in the Plaza could best be described as a Highlighter party consisting entirely of runners (sup heorot hayyy). ROCK ON. Our suspicions of a dance party were confirmed when they played "Shout" and everyone was singing and dancing. 

What could possibly be better than a public highlighter party full of runners?

We had a great time dancing like fools, with people in brightly-colored running clothes who we didn't know, but we still didn't know what this was all about...

Sam and me dancing like fools

... so I used my ever-improving Spanish skills to ask two of the men dancing near us. They responded in English (grrrrr!! + See yesterday's post). Turns out, one of the guys we were talking to works for Nike in Madrid. He explained that this is an event put on by Nike Running to promote the "Lunarun." Apparently, Lunarun is just a fun group run that happens for the next three Thursdays. Mary and I are planning to go the Thursday after next, when we're back from our travel week. There was some type of game (see right), where two people running on treadmills were competing against each other in a race or something on the big TV screen in front of them. Not sure exactly what was going on. 

The man with the microphone on stage (see below) must have been giving directions in Spanish or something, because everyone else seemed to be part of this choreographed dance, and the three of us were consistently one step behind. It was random that we happened to be walking by the Plaza Universitat tonight to see this, but I'm so glad we did!