Thursday, May 2, 2013

Day 79: Last Day in Europe!! (Aug. 1):

   Today is our last day in Europe;(  We are sad to say goodbye and its hard to believe that our BIG trip really is almost over! But, we are excited and ready to return home. 
    We want to really enjoy our last day in Madrid, but first we have to make sure everything is in place for our car lease drop off and make sure we have at least some seats together on the 9 ½ hour flight home tomorrow.
    We get everything squared away and Benson does a great job at continuing to contact Tiziana (the Barcelona landlord), letting her know exactly
where to find the camera and how important it is to us!
    We punch Palacio Real into Genie and follow her directions to find our last tour sites.
    On the way, we get some gas and luck out to find our favorite pastries: pan chocolate! And some strawberry gummy candy, and water – with no gas of course. 
   We find parking, and we walk around the palace, the cathedral, and down the streets with all of the other tourists, weaving in and out of overpriced tourist shops.



  We keep walking and find a plaza filled with street performers and beggars. There was Sponge Bob, Elmo and two Mickey and Minnie Mouses (a little confusing for the kids).  Peyton and Kennedi run up to them and pose with them for a picture, and immediately after, they say, 1 Euro, probably the least amount of money well ever pay to see Mickey and Minnie!
 
We walk of the shop-lined streets and run into two Elders on P-day, we chat for a while and then they take our pictures.
      We walk back to the car and pause at a park – which is Kennedis favorite part of the entire trip.
      On the way home, we stop at a shopping center, to pick up snacks and activity books for the flight home.
      Then we go home and pack everything up for the early morning.

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