When we ordered, it was done by a lot of pointing and gesturing and we weren't really sure that we'd gotten the right thing. Ali wondered if maybe we had ordered churros and hot chocolate instead of churros and dipping chocolate. When we got it though, it turned out that we got exactly what we wanted. It was delicious! (I mean how can you beat fried bread dipped in chocolate, right?)
After that, we decided to head over to the Museo del Prado which was the main draw to Madrid for me. I was hoping to see some works that I'd learned about in my art history class.
Here I am imitating one of the statues outside of it:
It was really cool! We saw artwork by Goya, Velasquez, El Greco, Rubens, Bosch, Raphael, Titian, and Tintoretto. I was the most excited to see The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch and Las Meninas by Valesquez. Ali really liked the tables inlaid with different stones and the sculptures. We had a hard time finding/ recognizing some of the works because the names were changed to Spanish so Bosch was known as El Bosco and Titain as Tiziano. The wouldn't let us take pictures inside so I don't have any from it.
After the art museums we wandered around the Paseo del Prado, which the a cute little park-like area surrounding the Prado. We saw the Plaza de Cibeles which has a famous fountain, but I'm not sure what it's famous for...
Standing up for hours on end in an art museum doesn't really sound that tiring but I was completely exhausted by the time we were done there.
We headed back to the hostel and relaxed for a bit. This hostel was very cool. It used fancy watch-like devices to open the doors and luggage storage. It had a kitchen and computer room with a TV. There were also organized social events each night.
Ali and I got a room with a little wrought-iron balcony that looked out over the street:
For dinner that night, we headed back out towards the Paseo del Prado, which wasn't too far from the hostel. We bought delicious corn on the cob off of a street vendor and then got some ice cream for dessert. It was quite a beautiful and lively area at night. We decided to just kind of wander and see what we could find. Here is me with a pretty fountain in front of the Museo del Prado again. We also saw a plant wall which was strange:
And, there was a giant elephant statue standing on its trunk.
I thought it was really cool so I waited in line with all of the little kids to have Ali take my picture next to it.
When we were walking away, we found that it was a statue by Miquel Barcolo called "Gran elefante erguido" (large upright elephant).
After that, we decided that we really didn't have that much else to do and headed back to the hostel for the night.
Most hostels offers great deals and enough accommodation.
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