Today I stayed home because my leg was sore from wearing my school shoes around town two days ago. I'm SO SO SO anxious for school to start. I wrote this at about 4 AM Massachusetts time, 10 AM Spain time.
Seth is taking his nap right now, and Nathan and I were playing on our iPhones. For lunch I had long bread (baguette) with PBJ on it, and also had an apple, which was not Granny Smith which it has been for the last week. And it was really good. And yesterday at the pool it was really fun because half of the time I was playing in the pool and playing basketball, and the rest of the time I was making a friendship bracelet for a pool party. It's to celebrate the closing of the pool, September 11. And also the little pool is now only a bit warmer, but they are both really really cold because it cools down so much at night. It's really uncomfortable to go in the pool.
For dinner I had a quesadilla, and it was good but the cheese is different from American cheese, which is my only favorite. But I like the cheese in it a little bit.
Yesterday we went to the palace and took a tour. And there's lots of fancy things. Not a lot of gold, but lots of Bronze. I don't know why. And there's lots of crystal and chandaliers, and there was a room that was like all mosaic and there's another room that had a table in it that was mosaic. And it had super-duper small pieces. And there's about 2000 rooms in the whole palace. Across from the palace is a church. And it took about 20 minutes to get there walking, and an hour on two buses. And on the way we saw a half-brick, half stone church. Our theory of the half and half thing was that it burnt down and they had to rebuild the top of it, but we don't know if that's true. They had a guide tour and a phone tour that you hold up to your ear, and they had a self-guided tour. Me and Nathan and Dad took the guided tour. Mom and Seth took the self-guided tour (which was over in about 10 minutes). We took the English guided tour. It had a huge courtyard, and lots of lampposts made of bronze. And a smaller courtyard.
And they had a collection of violins that were made by Stradivarius. There were 5 of them, and that's the rarest collection of violins in the world, because there's only a few Stradivarius. So if you have 5, that's pretty rare. And there are also lots of paintings and one of the three Caravaggio paintings that there are in Madrid were in the palace. And there's a huge dining room with a big table with 145 chairs. And there's two very tall chairs at the right side of the table. And those are where the King and Queen sit. If you're not as important you sit on the left side, and if you're pretty important you'd sit on the right side, near the king and queen. Our guide's name was Patricia, and she had a Spanish accent but we could understand her. There was only one other family besides us in our group. But at first we went with the Spanish group and he was speaking Spanish and we didn't know what was happening. So we went to the security guard who told us our group was looking for us, so we found them and started the tour.
I woke up at 3:00 last night, and there was a party and it was really, really loud so I couldn't fall asleep for like 20 minutes. I don't know where the party was, but I think it was near us because it was loud.
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