1/19/13

Today we started the day off right and went to see the Temple! It was so pretty and white amongst all the other tall kinda darkish buildings around it. When we walked into the church building we ran into some missionaries that were teaching an English class, so we were able to help them out! I loved it. It was so fun we helped with the advanced class who knew more English than not, so we divided into smaller groups and we talked about what we did this week in English and then ended up talking about Madrid and stuff in English. It was a lot of fun I really liked it. One of the guys told us about a drink where you mix Coca Cola and red wine together and we told him about how we don’t drink alcohol and stuff and talked about that for a little bit and then he wrote the name of it down for us so we could remember it if anyone offered it to us or anything haha it was cute but way funny too they were such fun people. I really liked it! I hope to see them again, whether it be in another English class or somewhere else. After that we went to the Teatro Real and walked around the Plaza right there and we got a bite to eat at this little street café called Café or Té. I brought my lunch so I got some chocolate ice cream to go with it:] It was really good and fun to just sit and relax, talk and eat for a few hours. The only weird thing was that people from the street would come right to us and ask for money and stuff like that but the waitress would call them off and stuff so that was really nice of her, I really liked the service there. After we had lunch we went to the Old North Train Station over by the Gate of Toledo and we walked around the mall for a little while as we waited for a few of our friends to meet us there. Then we went and saw the statue of the famous painter Goya and the chapel he is supposedly buried under. Then we rode the train over to where the American Museum is and this Aviation Museum looking place that had the airplane outside that was flown to Argentina from Spain and it took 58 hours!! I took a picture of it for the boys because it made me think of them ha. I want to go back to both of those museums to see what they have and stuff. Our last big thing we saw was where they have the bull fights. It was this huge beautiful building that was amazing. Before we headed home for dinner we went and got some ice cream, again haha. I don’t think it is possible for me to have too much ice cream. I had another great day today! I loved everything we did and I am falling more in love with Spain each minute I am here.