Madrid

We had to take Margrett to the Madrid airport so we made a whole trip out of it. Madrid is about 2 hours south of us. We left on Monday so she could have a day there before flying to New York where she was going to meet Candace for a few days before flying home. We took another On and Off City Tour bus like we did in Barcelona and saw all around the historic area of the city which is pretty amazing. Lots and lots of palaces and other beautiful buildings. Cory saw a crazy patchwork of a suit coat that really caught his eye so we got off on another stop and tracked down the store. Luckily, he couldn't buy it because it was just an example of the different colors customers could order. Mom, it was like the rugby "uglies" you brought back for him from New Zealand. The man was adament about not selling it and I feel fortunate because it cost 500 E. You thought the red jacket was loud. This was even more eyecatching.

It was hard to say goodbye to Margrett and see her go off on her own all by herself through that enormous airport. We had a lot of fun while she was here.

I dragged the boys to the Prado National Museum. It's supposed to have the world's largest collection of paintings (8600) with 2000 on display at once. A lot of religious art and no impressionist art. Although I don't particularly enjoy the religious art, I do understand that these artists loved the saviour and painted him in the best way they knew how. Their level of devotion can be seen through their works and I can appreciate that. The roman sculptures were impressive. Weston hated them cuz they're all naked, but I've never seen so many in one place. They were amazing! He wants to know what the difference is between this art and porn. Good question actually. Although we were completely dead on our feet, I'm glad we went. There were several masterpieces shown that you study in art history and here we got to see them in person. I feel very lucky to be here.