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…and in conclusion, let me say…

So, we’re leav­ing Madrid tomor­row in the morn­ing — the trip has run its course.

Once we got here, I was so tired that I ust dropped off the face of the blo­gos­phere — so sorry about that.

The time here was rel­a­tively quiet, we pretty much just recu­per­atd from all the adven­tures, stayed in the hotel a bit and left things casual.

Angie’s friend Lulu, and her mom, Kristi, came to join us in Madrid, which was a lot of fun. Angie and Lulu were pretty close last year, but then Kristi moved back to Spain to be closer to Lulu’s father and their other child. Being here, they were able to catch up with us and have a good time — it was fun.

We tried to check out the bull­fight­ing museum, but it was a non-starter — closed early by the time we got there (that seems to be a Span­ish thing to do — close at Siesta time — and then, close early any­way and never re-open.

We all went to the Palace, which is still an active palace, even though the oyal fam­ily lives some­where else. It was pretty awe­some to see all the fancy rooms (like the giant din­ing room from some­thing out of a period movie of Lords and Ladies all dressed up at a table for 100. But the best part for me and Nate was the Armory — with all the amaz­ing armor and weapons from as far back as the 7th cen­tury (!) … alas, no pic­tures allowed — so we just have to tell you that it was awe­some. Armor suits and horse armor and all sorts of amaz­ing stuff.

Here are a few pho­tos that you might enjoy:

Angie, Nate, and Lulu have it out in the Madrid Hotel

Kathy and Angie in Paris at one of Kathy’s favorite places

Angie — somewhere

Angie and Lulu and Donald

The clos­est we came to a bull­fight (meh)

Lulu!                                                                                        Lulu and Kristi

Oh, I guess nobody told Kathy that we couldn’t take pic­tures at the armory

Ummm…?


Peo­ple going absolutely NUTS when Spain won against Germany!


Count us all in!


As we drove from Barcelona to Madrid, the were just every­where — it’s about 40 feet high (it’s a billboard)


This is the Gaudi Church in Barcelona — it’s quite beau­ti­ful — pre­tend the crane and ad for eclipse aren’t there

I think we’d say we had a good time … thanks for watch­ing the blog with us.

God Bless, all — see you soon.