Templo de Debod and New Friends

As our time in Spain was coming closer to an end, I wanted to take Glenn to the Egyptian temple.  He hadn't remembered going 2 years ago and I thought he would really enjoy it.  April 29th Glenn and I took the metro and found our way to the Templo de Debod.

It wasn't too busy and we were able to look at things leisurely.  

Glenn liked seeing the hieroglyphics.  It is pretty amazing! 

After walking in and around the Egyptian temple, we went to the playground nearby.

We were playing just the two of us, but there were other kids there.  Some of the kids would come close to Glenn, but after realizing he wasn't speaking Spanish, they went back to the other kids.  One little girl though didn't go away.  Glenn started playing with her and they had fun.  I talked with her dad who spoke English.  They were there on their 2-hour lunch break.  When it was time to get going for them, they asked if we wanted to get together again tomorrow.  They wanted to share Spanish omelet with us and wanted to get to know us better--and we felt the same.

So the next day we came again to the playground by the Egyptian temple.  Paul decided to take the day off from work and come with us.  I'm really glad he did because we had a wonderful time.  Our new friends were Daniel and Estrella.  Estrella's mom--Paloma-- also came for our picnic lunch.  I realize now that I didn't take a picture of the food, but they brought a Spanish omelet, some bread with meat.  We brought some veggies and chocolate rice crispy treats.  They really liked them.  I had wanted to share an American treat with them and was happy that they liked them.


We ate lunch and talked while the kids played again on the playground.

They also had fun playing by the tree.

We had a really good time with them.  We talked about getting together again--this time at their house for a traditional Spanish meal.  It would be in a week or so because they were heading to the beach for the long weekend.  We said good-bye as they had to get back to work and school.  We were so lucky to have met them and gotten to know them.

We played at the park a little longer.

Then we did a little sight-seeing and souvenir shopping for the rest of the day.

We found a Don Quixote statue in the Plaza de Espana.

And we took our picture in front of the bear and tree statue in the Puerta del Sol square.

We also found a candy vendor who sold these long pieces of candy.  They were pretty good and we each got one.  Yum!

We had a really good time, meeting new friends, sharing good food and walking around Madrid in beautiful weather.  I'm so grateful that the weather in Spain this time around was much better and we could enjoy the outdoors more.  It really made a big difference in our time there.