Monday, October 29, 2007
Manatees!
We really went because it was the opening weekend of the new manatee exhibit. Unfortunately, the exhibit wasn't complete and there was no information available about the manatees. All we found out is that they're from South America. I think they might be a different species or subspecies because they look thinner and longer than the manatees in Florida.
Faunia
Friday, Nora and I went to a wildlife amusement park in the suburbs of Madrid. They had a few incredible exhibits including a nocturnal exhibit that was dangerously dark (we kept running into each other) and this tropical rain forest that storms for 5 minutes every hour.
Monday, October 22, 2007
The Queen of Tarts
Rachel and I found an Alice’s-like tea house across from Dublin Castle that’s famous for their apple scones.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
The inside of the cathedral was more of a museum than a church but the stain glass was beautiful and much more intricate than in the churches in Spain.
Fish n Chips
We had lunch at a famous hole-in-the-wall fish and chips place called Leo Burdocks but didn’t realize that’s its an entire fish. Nora and I took our fried bundles down to the park around St. Patrick’s Cathedral and had a lovely lunch.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Hard Rain
Sunday was beautiful day and I walked down to the botanical gardens to see the Bob Dylan photography exhibit “Hard Rain”. I saw it during La Noche en Blanco but it was nighttime and raining so I wanted to see it during the day. It was still beautiful and moving but I think seeing it on a rainy night made it a little eerie in a very fitting way. Anyways, this is the olive grove where you tie your ribbon saying how you’re going to save the world.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Instituto Internacional
This is my school in Madrid! It’s a beautiful old building that was an elite high school until the ‘70s for children of ambassadors in Madrid.
Museo Arqueologico Nacional
I wanted to go here for the special exhibit on the Etruscos, a civilization in Italy that Rome conquered, but the rest of the museum seemed to be under construction and didn’t have much to offer.
Parque del Capricho
We spent at least an hour getting to and trying to find this beautiful park in the suburbs of Madrid but it was worth it.
Parade Party Buses
This is such a great idea for a parade. There were rolling concerts for each country in the parade and they had masses of dancers following them.
The Fun Parade
So the scary military parade was in the morning but at night the real parade happened. The South American communities in Madrid threw their own parade to celebrate whatever strange unity was being celebrated. In this parade, Spain was never mentioned. It was chaotic and fun and difficult to tell audience from parade. And everyone was waving the flag of their country. This is an awful picture but it gives you a good idea of the atmosphere (and all this is taking place directly outside the Prado).Día de Dos Desfiles
Friday was a national holiday in Spain celebrating the unity of the Spanish race. And by Spanish race they mean all the nations they colonized in the Americas. So to celebrate this, the government threw a massive military parade complete with tanks and jets flying low over the city. Both the king and president aired public service announcements all week telling Spaniards it was their duty to come to the parade to show support for their country. Nothing was ever mentioned about the Americas…
Monday, October 8, 2007
Abbey Road Studios
I already put up our classic album cover picture and it was so fun to fend off traffic with other Beatles fans.
Barnard Conquers London
My first night, Amanda, Rachel, and Mia took me to dinner at an Italian restaurant overlooking Tower Bridge and then to a pub.
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