It’s the first night that we are here in Madrid visiting our daughter who is studying abroad here for a year, and it has already been quite an interesting and fun first day. Our daughter didn’t find us for about 30 minutes because she went to the wrong terminal, which is hilarious but we thought she forgot we were coming today. When we finally saw her it was like she never left California.

We took the taxi to our hotel, because we had one suitcase just full of all the food she wanted us to bring to Madrid and we had to take the taxi because we had way too much to take on the metro. When we finally got to the hotel, we relaxed in our comfortable family suite room and had some left over chelo-kabob, which was like Christmas for our daughter. After we had dinner, we took a stroll outside and saw Madrid at night.

It was much different than any other city I’ve been to before in Europe. The architecture was beautiful and everything that I expected Spain to look like, actually more than I expected. We took a mini trip to my daughter’s apartment, which is currently under construction due to a water leakage, did some grocery shopping and came back to our hotel to call it a night.

Well, tomorrow we are buying our train tickets to Barcelona, Granada, Sevilla, and Cordoba, which is a great Spain tour.