Museums and mayhem!

Now that we have internet in our apartment, it's time to sort out our photos and let you in on how we are doing. We moved to Sol where we are walking distance from a plethora of museums, parks and famous, touristy places. Right after we moved into our new apartment, we headed on over to the Reina Sofia, a modern art gallery with some great (and some real odd) masterpieces. This is a picture of the outside of the building.

The Reina Sofia is best known for its collection of surrealist paintings and, of course, Picasso's Guernica. This painting is huge. There's always a large group taking pictures and admiring it. When you see it in person, it's much more powerful. Here's the best shot I could get of the painting. It's so big, I had a hard time trying to get the full picture, especially without random people in it. I really liked this museum. It has this lovely courtyard with outside sculptures. Here's a shot from the hallway.

We decided to walk farther down the street and looked into this train station. This might be the train station that A and I have to take when we travel to other parts of Spain. Anyway, when you enter the station, it's like a giant terrarium. All these plants in the center of the place.

As we were walking inside the station, we noticed there was a small pond where a lot of Spaniards had gathered to look. When we come up, we noticed that there were hundreds of turtles in this pond! Other than the fact that it smelled terrible, it was really neat!

That's all for right now. I have more to share, but we have to run over to mass at 7:30. We believe that Lope de Vega, a famous Spanish playwright, is buried in this church. We're going to find out and tell the 5 people we know who may be interested in that piece of information...