blog worthy.

My parents came to visit! That means lots of being touristy (and shopping of course). While showing around the parentals I got to do some of the touristy Mardid things I hadn't done yet.

We went inside Madrid's most famous museum: el Prado. Which has the most paintings in circulation of anywhere in the world I believe. Including: Goya, Rembrant, and Velasquez's Las Meninas.


Finally did the boats in Reitro Park.


It's harder than it looks!


Tour of inside of Palacio Real. (Told you! Touristy.)


Representaion of my studiousness - Don Quixote statue in Plaza de España.


And Dad got it all on video - even the party scene in front of their apartment. Yep, he woke up at 2:30 a.m. and decided to document Spanish night life.

Madrid basically has jamon everywhere and being that my parents don't eat much ham eating was the biggest concern. I came to appreciate Madrid's worldwide food accessibility.


There is SUCH a good Italian food place that we may or may not have went to twice...


The best thing we ate was Restaurante Sobrino de Botin. Mentioned in Hemmingway's "The Sun Also Rises" this is the Guinness Book of World Records' proclaimed Oldest Restaurant in the World.


It has a cool tavern feel and suckling pigs lined up on deck to bake in the wood oven.


In reality, if you are an efficient tourist, you can see Madrid's major sites in three days. So my parents 6 day stay included a day trip to Segovia. The Roman Aqueducts are well worth the visit. Made completely without mortar the rocks fit perfectly together to form over 160 arches that are still standing today. Amazing they could do that back then!



Segovia is also home to Alcázar, an old Castle residence of the Castillian king and queen and apparently the model for Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle.




It used to have an artillery school upstairs. FYI there is a certain angle you are supposed to lean at to fire a canon. The one hand behind the back is the classy professional touch.


By far the best part of the visit was dinner with my parents and my Spain family. Another wonderful meal at Restaurante de Inés (AKA my Spain mom's kitchen).


Family meets host family!


So yes, Mom. Despite what you may think, you are indeed blog worthy.