Life in the Old World: A Day in the Sun

One of Ben's teachers told him that Spring in Madrid is very short. There is about 2 or 3 weeks of rain and then BAM! It's summer! Well, we missed the first two weeks of rain when we were in the States and the first week we were back it was rainy and cold. So, there was our three weeks of spring and just a few days ago, temperatures jumped into the 70s with the 80s in the forecast for this coming week. We are loving it! It is so nice to walk around in shorts and a tank top again.

To celebrate this unbelievably good weather, we went to Retiro Park on Sunday and had a picnic. It was beautiful and there were so many people out and about. We also found the peacocks. I just love them! I wish I could be a peacock paparazzi. They are so pretty.

I also realized that I haven't really posted any pictures of the neighborhood we live in so as we walked around we took some pictures of that too. Enjoy. :)

Leaving for a fun day in the Sun.

On our street looking down towards Plaza de Espana.

The little plaza above our house.

The street on the other side of our building.

Headed towards the metro stop Noviciado. We take this one to get to the mercado and sometimes we walk this way to get to Sol if we don't want to walk on Gran Via, one of the main roads through Madrid.