Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Madrid, May 2012

Here are my pictures from my camera.  I still have many more to go and am trying to post them by area/day/whatever.   I will also have more random pictures from my phone and then brother's pictures...


This is the Don Quixote statue in Madrid

This is right in downtown Madrid.  I took this while sitting at Starbucks enjoying my coffee and blueberry muffin I have missed so much! 

BROTHER!

This is Plaza Mayor. 

This is the Iberian Ham we had at a Tapas bar.  Yum! 

Me and J...high school buddies.  She now lives in Madrid.  I'm not sure why our expressions are so strange....lol. 

The Royal Palace...

Me in front of the Royal Palace fountain

Palace

This is an Egyptian temple that was given to the city of Madrid.  It closed 4 mintues before we got there.  Bummer.  The pics below are the view from the park that the temple is in...

Walking up to the Don Quixote statue.  This was Sunday.  J was able to hang out with us for the morning.  We went to the street market that went on forever.  You can buy everything there!  We got a few gifts.  After that, we took naps and then headed out to J's for dinner and chatting. 

Saturday we spent most of our time exploring and went to the Prado museum.  We saw lots of Spanish artists like Goya and Ruben.  There was one Rembrandt. 

Monday we went to the Reina Sofia, the museum of Modern Art.  We saw tons of Picasso works.  Paintings, drawings, sculpture, etc.  After that we hit up the botanical gardens.  Pics of the garden are next. 















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