Madrid

    This morning we woke up and took a cab to the train station where we would ride 4 hours to Madrid. Loading the train with my humongous bag was yet again obnoxious, but its fine because I have alot of clothing I get to choose from every day. The train ride wasnt all that bad because it was a combination of sleeping, reading my book "Bossypants" by Tina Fey (hilarious, get it at target now) and watching Morning Glory in spanish with spanish subtitles. Once we finally arrived in Madrid, we taxied to our new hotel and were greeted by air conditioning, a man who took my suitcase from my hand and a bottle of champagne. Amen. We settled into our hotel room, changed into shorts to bear to heat and headed out to explore Madrid in the short amount of time we are here. We decided we just wanted to walk around the main areas of town and see the famous plazas. First I needed to eat however, so we asked the concierge and followed his advice to a cute tapa restaurant for sangria and meat/cheese on bread. We then strolled through a few famous parks and plazas and enjoyed the culture of this city, we also stopped once for gelato. We went in and out of different stores and mom got a spanish flag (she has been looking for one all trip), and I bought myself a stuffed animal bull with a spanish flag bow. His name is Juan Pablo and I love him. I also bought a pretty hand painted fan because everyone uses them here because it is almost as hot as literally sitting bare-assed on the sun itself. Almost. We then walked to the famous Palace in Madrid where the king and queen lived and every room is extremely large and has hand painted gold babies on the walls and about one chair in each room. It was cool to see and pretend to live in such a fancy place for 12 minutes. 

       I wonder what my life would be like if I lived in a place like this. Hide and Seek would be totally legit. We walked around a little more and then headed back to our hotel. We lounged around and drank champagne and watched Sex in the City in Spanish and had room service delivered. A nice calm night in Madrid, and the last night together with my momma. Tomorrow I am onto my adventure in Oveido.