Hello from Madrid!

It's been a crazy-full day here already...and we still have so much planned! Our plane landed at 9am Madrid time (3 am Jax time). If your keeping track, the kids got at most 4 hours of sleep...but they were very impressed with their first airplane meal. We withdrew some Euros and were off on our bus ride to get close to our hotel. A taxi took us a little closer ( but could only get so far because of the Gay Pride Rally going on in the Puerta del Sol today). We checked in to the cutest little hotel (8 flights of stairs) and were off. We saw the Puerta del Sol, the Plaza Mayor and the Royal Palace and ate lunch at the Mercado de San Miguel. The kids are being such troopers- and crashed just in time to return to the hotel for a 3 hour siesta. We're headed back out to shop and grab a late dinner. Hopefully, I'll get to post camera pics later - the ones below came from my phone. Check out us at the Royal Palace and the kids being conned into taking a picture with some random character in the Plaza Mayor - who then asked for change. Lesson learned! XOXO, Benderz