It has officially been one week of being in beautiful San Lorenzo de El Escorial. It seems I am in a dreamy dream land. I love it here. It is relaxing, the food is ALL different and good, hiking is my new form of exercise and the Italian coffee maker is my morning best friend ;) I am so thankful for the 5 other Au Pairs here. They have truly colored my life here more than I can imagine. I am SO grateful God gave them to me!!
Today I went into Madrid with Caroline for several hours. She is such a curious and interesting person and knows a lot about the city and Spain in general, so we have lots of conversation. She had planned with Katie to meet up in Plaza de España so we could walk to the Häägen Däz Ice Cream, but Katie ended up not making it so we indulged...and thankfully I felt like we might have walked a bit of it off. We explored the Plaza and then went over to another nearby (and huge) parque that had great views of the city and an Egyptian Temple! Serious! It was given to Spain in 1967 as a "thank you" for helping them in some war...or something...I took a pic of the writing outside of it...probably could explain it better than me right now.
I got back into San Lorenzo and it had just rained (thankfully it was stopped because I was wearing my fave suede ankle boots today! hehe) and was quite happy about the fact that I know the shortcut from the main road in San Lorenzo that leads back to my home here. Yay! Ok, so it took a "trial & error" session for a moment, but I found the proper stairs leading down into the park above my house!
This afternoon Alberto left for Grenada with his Orienteering team. They have a huge meet-race down there this weekend with over 800+ runners! Julio and I made a mess of yarn all over the living room, which reminded me of a sorority tradition haha. Silvia had a dinner party to go to, so after she made dinner and the boys went to bed, she left around 10 pm. I just watched "Lord of the Rings" part 1 and vegged out. It´s now time for me to sleeeeeep. Silvia just got home a bit ago.
Speaking of, she is such a typical cute Spanish mom. She dresses adorably and gave me a Mango fashion ad book today! She says that I need to go shopping there. She got some really cute things the other day!
The Egyptian Temple is the Templo de Debod. Given to the Spanish Gov't for helping with the flooding of the Nile. Pretty nice gift! I saw a full lunar eclipse over it once! Is that good luck?
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