Travel day……and a little peek at Madrid

Saturday was mainly a travel day.  We took a bus to the train station and then took a bullet train from Barcelona to Madrid.  Then another bus picked us up and took us as close to the hotel as it could.  Gotta love suitcases on cobblestone :)    After dropping our stuff off in our room, we got a very basic orientation of which direction things were and then we headed off to explore.  We had no solid plans since it was late afternoon.  We wandered up and down a couple of pedestrian streets and looked at some shops.  We went to the top of a retail building to get a higher few of the city.  Then we went back to the hotel and came up with a plan.  It was free entry at the Reina Sofia Art Museum at 7 so we decided to go there.  Since modern art is not always our thing, we thought we’d give it a test to see if it was something we wanted to pay to visit again (our instincts were right).  We hopped the Metro to avoid walking in the heat and 3 short stops later we arrived.  First we had dinner at Oven Mozzarella Bar.  It had pasta and pizza and sure was tasty.It was nice to have European pizza again, even if it was only 4 cheese pizza :).  Then we headed to the art museum to join the long que that had already formed.  We figured out that we could go to the much, much shorter line because we had gotten the ‘free entry ticket’ online and those people were admitted first. Turns out we didn’t last too long…..only an hour.  We enjoyed seeing a few Dali and Picasso but some of the other things stumped us.  I can appreciate the time and effort that goes into art and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but sometimes I just scratch my head and wonder what the….?

Welcome to Madrid!  The train station….

This was entitled hope….

Ummmm…. I mean reminds me of kindergarten art?

Julie made new friends :)

I spy…..with my little eye…..all the weird little things Dali put in his painting…..