last weekend (november 19-21)
my interest group (sports & nature)
went to madrid together!
the easiest way for you to see what i did?
photos, of course!!
this speaks for itself.
....
our first stop?
INEF and the universitario...
this is where the athletes go to study and train.
i'm talking national athletes & olympic athletes.
pretty cool.
this is the museum part, showing workout equipment from the 19th century..
and then i missed track. a lot.
THEN
we got to tour Real Madrid F.C.'s stadium!
in the press room:
and after a little siesta...what'd we do?
about 8 of us saw harry potter & las reliquias de la muerte (parte uno)!!
SATURDAY:
first thing: the botanical gardens
where there are plants from all over the world
it was SO REFRESHING to see leaves that have changed colors and fallen.
the desert room:
the bonsai's!
the puerta del sol: being decorated for december!
the (relatively) new cathedral across from the royal palace
beautiful.
we went in at the perfect time because the sun was shining
RIGHT through the main stained glass windows
leaving my shadow surrounded by bright colors!
up next?
the reina sofia museum!
(filled with modern art, including picasso & dali)
this is the outside.
bacon?
dali:
on top of the reina sofia...there's the train station that was bombed a few years ago.
8 or 9 years maybe? shoot.
aaand a bocadillo statue! haha
in madrid, the common bocadillo has calamari inside it!
(weird, well, to me since i've been having chorizo or ham!)
SUNDAY:
before we returned to sevilla,
we visited "la rastra"
a huge open air market open every sunday.
i was going to go down one side of the street and back up the other...
fail.
there are so many streets and they all just go on for what seems like forever!
madrid is a very metropolitan city,
which, for me, made it a fun place to visit,
but made me appreciate sevilla even more.
a lesser concentration of people!
most likely tomorrow i'll explain the movie i saw this evening...
scary scary!
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