What a crazy, fun experience it is to hop on a metro and take it to downtown of a big city. This time, as compared to Rome or even most of Italy, it wasn't as crowded and stressful. I made sure to keep my phone out of site and we managed just fine :). We didn't really know where we were headed just knew the general idea of where we wanted to go. When we first came out of the metro station it was raining like CRAZY. We headed over to the phone store so Jake could figure out his phone to use while here in Spain and waited out the storm a little. While Jake was up doing that, we headed out to see the main plaza of Madrid. We started in the Puerta del Sol, located in about the very center of Spain. It was a beautiful little square. The Bear and the Madroño Tree, heraldic symbol of Madrid was fun to see. Apparently the symbol is seen in lots of places in Madrid.
We got some dinner here at the Museo del Jamon. A little bit of Jamon (ham) on a yummy roll type bread. Spain is famous for their Jamon as it is unique in the world in how they cure it and even how they take care of their pigs. Apparently one of their pigs around here is only interested in eating acorns and it makes their meat really yummy.
Plaza Major. They were setting up for a concert to celebrate October 12th. It is a beautiful little place too! We also hit the cathedral that is close by the Palace. It was a very nice little outing to downtown Madrid for our family.
This is the Royal Palace of Madrid. Still used to this day to host parties and banquets for the royal families. We didn't go in as we got there too late and we didn't think the kids (or me) would be up to walking around a huge palace, although I have heard it is incredible.
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