5.15.2008

Madrid, Spain (may 14th and 15th)

We started off in the Salt Lake airport May 14th, and we were off to Atlanta. Bry and I stayed up as late as possible the night before so that we would be able to sleep on the flights. Dev,Kev, and BK came over that night, since we hadn't seen them all in a week (which is a long time for us because we are always over at their house)... but anyhow we got to Atlanta, and got some food and waited for our flight. We activated our international phone, which is my same number and we boarded the plane! We got to our seats and there were people in... So we just said well where are you seated, because we will just take your seats. We got to where their seats where, and surprise surprise there was a baby in the seats behind them. Well I decided that an eight and half hour flight directly in front of a baby was not going to be fun, so I kindly told the people who were in our seats that we would like them. So we settled into our seats and played with the individual TV screens! We watched some scrubs, and we each watched our own choice of movies and settled in for the long night of flying. I slept most of way but Bry didn't get as lucky. So we arrived in the Madrid airport and got our bags and found our driver. I love that Bryan speaks Spanish because he has been such a help. His Spanish is perfect!
We got to our hotel which was amazing! We actually found out that when the other countries Royal families come to Madrid, they stay in our hotel which is the Palace Hotel! It’s amazing! We walked around a bit and then settled into our room and slept for about 6 hours. We ventured out to dinner around 10pm which is customary here and ate some wonderful pastas, and the waitress told Bryan that he had a beautiful accent! I wish so bad that I could speak spanish!
The next day (May 15th) we met up with my babysitter from my childhood. Her name is Pamela and she has lived here in Spain for two years now. She showed Bry and I around town. It's so nice because our hotel is pretty central to all the tourist sights in Madrid! We got to eat a typical spanish lunch which was "Huevos Rotos". It was so good....filling but good! We walked past so many museums and through all the alleys around the city. Today was "San Isidro" which is a holiday for a Catholic Saint. So there were tons of people in the streets and even a bunch of people being human statues in the streets. It was fun! We got a bit hungry a little later and got some hot chocolate and churros. The hot chocolate here is like pudding and the churros aren't the mexican churros because they don't have sugar or cinnamon on them. They are actually used for dipping in coffees or in our case wonderful hot chocolate! We even got to walk around outside the royal palace! Tours were closed today, so we are planning on going tomorrow! We came back to our hotel during the typical "siesta" which is kind of an afternoon nap for the spanish. We then walked around and found ourselves an Italian restaurant for dinner and had some of the best Italian food we have ever eaten! It was amazing!

Huevos Rotos
Bry at the cafe that we had our hot chocolate

us in front of the fountain at the Royal Palace


the royal palace

us in the square that they shot the movie vantage point!

us in front of our hotel after dinner

our hotel on the left

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