We made it to Madrid after a nice little international overnight flight. I packed myself a little healthy snack bag, we watches two movies I wanted to see(ides of march and moneyball) and woke up to a beautiful sunrise over the Spanish coast 
We met up with Nicole and Manuel at our beautiful hotel(and got a room upgrade! Score!) and freshened up a bit before hitting the road to explore 
The view from Nicoles room… 
. We grabbed some Madridcards and started getting aquainted with this beautiful city 
Lunch at the adorable Delic Cafe. We had our first taste of Spanish jamon(ham) and let me tell you- we are hooked! (I don’t eat ham often, but apparently in Spain I do!) 
after lunch we kept exploring- sleek metro station…
we took a cable car ride to get a view of the city… 
. We stopped for a coffee and tea pick-me-up… 
<br
/>Another beautiful metro station! 
We didn’t make it to the royal
Palace in time to tour it yesterday but we did make it in time to see the sun setting and putting a beautiful golden glow on everything…
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My phone died so I don’t have pics of our tapas crawl later that night but I will certainly post them later! We are off for another day of adventure! Ciao!
from the desk of tara hope... 
So, we are flying back to Seattle for a little retreat with friends today. I want you to know that I packed myself a little snack bag because of this post! I couldn’t get it outta my head! Mine isn’t as healthy tho 😦 I got those Annie’s bunnies too. Couldn’t get them outta my mind either!