Thursday was the first day of Josh's conference. I was SO tired still, I went back to sleep after he left the room. I kind of lounged around the majority of the day. I did venture out to lunch and I definitely got a little more motivated to learn Spanish! My waiter spoke very little English and I speak very little Spanish, so it was quite difficult. I managed to get what I wanted and pay, but it definitely would have been easier if my Spanish was a little better. The food was delicious! I got a beer, paella, grilled tuna and watermelon (as dessert). It was all good, but the tuna was AMAZING!
When Josh got out of the conference, we went out with a group of people who are attending the conference. I had a big lunch, so I wasn't very hungry. We shared a small plate of patatas and pork. It was nice to get to meet some of the people from the conference. There were other attendees and speakers out at dinner with us and two of the speakers actually picked up the tab. SUPER nice of them! After dinner, we came back to the hotel for a happy hour reception. There are people from all over the world attending the conference, so it's really cool to chat with them. This is a great networking opportunity for Josh, too!
While Josh was at his conference on Friday, I slept in then went to the grocery store. I really like to go to grocery stores when I'm in a new country. It seems silly, but I like to see how their food is different from ours.
Josh got out of his conference a little early and we went into the city. First, we went to the Royal Palace (Palacio Real de Madrid). We saw it from the outside since it closed in an hour and we wanted to make sure we had enough time to see it all.
Us from outside the palace gates.
The palace and courtyard.
This is the beautiful cathedral across from the palace.
I don't know what this place was, but I really liked the door.
A cute little pedestrian street. The yellow building is a restaurant, but it wasn't open.
Plaza Mayor at night. If you notice the arches at the corners, those lead to pedestrian streets with more shops and restaurants.
This is a close up of one of the arches. We ate dinner at another restaurant just outside the Plaza Mayor Friday night. This one was not as good. The deal was 12 tapas and a pitcher of sangria for €23. There were only 2 or 3 tapas that we liked and the sangria was just OK.
After dinner, we went back to the hotel for happy hour with the other conference attendees. Josh may or may not have let one of the guys give him a mohawk that he forbids me to post and we did a group ice bucket challenge that I'm also not allowed to post because he may have said mohawk in the video. We're both so much more adventurous when we're on vacation!
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