Our final days in Madrid

Hello again. It's been a few days since we last posted. We've been quite busy.

Wednesday:

Museums, kick ass tour with our buddy Jorge.

Thursday:

Royal Palace, so we all pumped to check out the royal palace, especially after hearing Jorge talk about all day yesterday. But, CLOSED! So it was closed for Official Royal Business. So we did get to see the Royal procession, as the king and queen made their way to the palace (check out the pictures). So all in all, it was definitely worth it.

Then we checked out the church next to it...cool. We then walk around the royal gardens (they were also closed...bummer). We then made it all the way up (all the way up a massive hill) to the Temple of Debod. This was a 2200 year old Egyptian temple given to Spain as a gift. Very sweet.

Then we went looking for the restaurant Finos y Finas mentioned in our MadridCard books. But with no luck, fortunately, we landed on the vegetarian/organic buffet Viva la Vida. AWESOME!

It was a beautiful sunny day that we got some ice cream and sat down in the middle of Plaza Mayor and just basked in the sun.

At the end of the night, Corey wimped out and wanted to stay home. boo.

FRIDAY

10am: A guided tour of Old Madrid. This adorable little old lady took us around to see the 12th to 17th century buildings, plazas, walls, etc. If you want to know more read a book, or just ask Corey. He'll tell you all about Arab vs Christian Madrid, while I smile and take pictures.

So then we started our trek up north. We stopped at the archaeological museum, the natural science museum, and then we made it all the way to the Real Madrid soccer stadium, Very Cool! they are the football with the most wins EVER! We saw their trophy case, very impressive.

so then we took the metro back to downtown, had some tapas y canas and then finally we got to see a Flamenco show at Cardamomo.

To be continued....im tired and we need to wake up tomorrow to check out of our hostel and catch our flight to VALENCIA!