Oh the places you'll go...

"Man, those hookers must be cold." -CW
Overall the weather has been wonderful, but tonight was a bit chilly as we were walking back to go to sleep. Don't worry, these ladies of the night are working nowhere near our hostel. Actually, they work on Gran Via, which reminds me of Nicollet in downtown Minneapolis. They are really overt about their profession, which is something that you just don't see in the U.S., especially in good parts of town.

Today was packed full, as everyday before has been. We found a cafe this morning for breakfast, and had cappuccinos and croissants, it was picturesque. After, we ran around Madrid trying to find H&M to get a few more shirts for Chris since his luggage is still gone. We also found him a hat because his forhead is turning about as red from the sun as the imitation Dolce and Gabanna jeans from Casablanca turned his legs blue from the dye. And his legs were BLUE.

After finding him some clothes, we walked through the El Retiro park, which translated, is a park that is much like Central Park in New York. We were on our way to El Prado, an art museum that people make special trips to Madrid just to visit. It was amazing. Out of the 56 masterpieces, we were only able to view about half before the museum closed at eight. We may make another trip there tomorrow to view the rest, or there is a lesser known museum called the Thyssen-Bornemisza, which began as a private collection, worth around 1 billion dollars, but was purchased for the bargain price of 350 million. It should be pretty impressive.

We would highly reccommend Spain, and specifically Madrid as a vacation spot. The metro is really easy to understand, the language barrier is not hard to overcome and the culture here is worth seeing. We are however, excited to get home to our bed since the one at this hostel is about as soft as the cobblestone street below us.