We're not rule breakers. Can we have our cookies back?

Today was a fabulous day in Madrid. We were ecstatic to sleep in til 11 this morning. We then cooked french toast for our madre and Swiss housemates. They loved it with some cinnamon sugar on top. Then we spent a while just chatting with our madre as she tried to explain to us how to make some typical Spanish recipes. I think we got enough information to make some good comida when we get back to the states.

Our madre also told us about a precious park called "El Capricho" (the 'whim'). So, on a whim-haha, we ventured out to explore this great little park where supposedly Goya would go to paint. It was so quaint and had a lot to wander around and see. On our way in we attempted to bring in some fanta and cookies. The cookies were confiscated at the entrance to the park i guess because they didn't want us littering in the park. So we strolled around and had a photo shoot in this beautiful park. Here are some of our best pics:

My GORGEOUS roommate :)

We picked some flowers and put them in our hair. On our way out of the park, as we collected our confiscated cookies, the attendant asked if we got our flowers from the park. I said, "no, no, no." and walked away really fast. Um, we're in a park with flowers everywhere. Of course I got my cute fresh flower from this park...whatcha gonna do about it?

On the way to lunch we had the metro all to ourselves and took advantage of it by singing, sliding, and dancing through the train car. The security guards are going to have some entertaining footage of some American chicas.

We then met Caitlin, Ashley, and Mary at the restaurant El Espejo for a late lunch. We had some great ham, cheese, and egg sandwiches and split some leche merengada. After that, we met Kimberley and Allison at the baptist church for what we thought was going to be a church service but ended up being a choir concert. Different, but good. We left after the first half to get some of the best tapas at El Tigre.

Later we attempted to see a movie in Spanish but we didn't get there earlier enough so we just sat on the steps of the movie theater and chatted with this random Nigerian who struck up a random conversation.

On the way home, we ran into our Swiss roommate and his friend and went for some coffee at the cafeteria. We're home now just enjoying our pics and dreading the packing process that's looming ahead.