Day 8 - Not much!

Philip and I spent most of the morning sleeping and being lazy so there's not much to report.  We didn't make it out until almost noon and we went to the local department store (THE only department store in Madrid) and went to their cafeteria for some food.  Think old Woolworth's!  I need some eggs and you cannot find that in Spain for breakfast.  However, they seem to like eggs and foie for lunch or dinner (see my earlier post from 2-14).  So, we had lunch, returned to the apartment and then attempted to find some architectural building Philip has been wanting to see.  After 3 hours of finding most were a Metro ride, bus trip and walking, we gave up.

So then we decided to go to the Atocha train station and get our tickets for the train to Toledo on Sunday.  After getting our tickets we strolled through a park which is basically Madrid's Central Park (can't remember it's name) before jumping on the Metro and heading back to the apartment.  This photo reminds me so much of the lake in Central park.  They even had the row boaters there!

I was running low on energy so asked if we could stop and get something to eat.  Hector (our housemate) suggested we try the chocolate and churros which is considered a delicacy in Madrid.  So, we stopped by, ordered our drink and churros and dug in.  Needless to say, it is very rich and sweet and we could only get half way through it before calling it quits.  I don't see how these Spaniards do it with all these sweets.

Afterwards, we went back to the apartment and hung out for a bit before we went out to dinner and called it an early night since we were catching an early train to Toledo in the morning.

It was a pretty uneventful day.