The Prado

So we went to the Prado and it was probobly the coolest thing ever. We all went over as a group and I was really tired from the night before so on the bus ride over I was a little sleepy. But we got there and of course Dr. Shumway's kids went straight for us. Their two boys Trevor and Aaron love Andrew and me. Sister Shumway told us we were fine to take them but we had to give them directly back to her because a few years ago there was confusion and some kids got left at the Prado. They really are the funniest kids ever. They have a daughter Sarah who is really cute and funny.

When we got in to the Prado it was really cool. There was a painting of "an apostle" that i really really liked. They had a lot of the famous works of "Velasquez" or something like that. I'm not really sure how to spell his name. I was just really impressed by it all. After we went through that exhibit we moved toward some other rooms that had a bunch of ancient Greek and Roman peices. Those were really impressive because many had been that way since before Christ and were still amazing. In reality they were just on the "camino" to the Goya exhibit.

People were slowly peeling off and by the time we actually got to Goya's works it was just Erin, Sarah, and me. We saw all the ones that he did towards the end of his life where he went crazy. Those were really neat. After those we headed to his central display. The 2nd and 3rd of May. When we finally went into the room however they were no where to be seen. I asked the guard and found out that they are being restored till the 15th of April. I am so glad that I am sticking around here with my dad because I really am excited to see those. Being a little sad that they weren't there we headed over to Las Tres Meninas. There were a lot of the Zubies there. (Although few of the people on the trip are actually very zubyish. Everyone is actually really cool.) Erin decided it was her lunch time as did everyone else so they left me alone and I wandered towareds the supposed Rembrandt exhibit but there was only one of his pieces and it wasn't all that famous. But that is ok because there are tons of other WAY cool paintings.

I found Andrew when we planned to meet to head home and there was a group of 5 or so of us outside waiting to go back to Alcala. We decided to go and get "postres" at the "Puerta del Sol". They were really really good and then we finally headed back home. On the way over we saw a pretty cool looking bar and Andrew wanted a picture of it.

On the bus ride was another awesome Mullet.