Sorry the first four photos are out of order. They are suppose to be after the temple pictures.
From there we went and met up with Angeles' brother and his family for a personal tour of the congress building. Since Javier is third in line in the Education Ministry in Spain he had a friend (the guy in this picture who is a member of the House of Representatives) arrange and give us the tour. We sat in the President of Spain's seat as well as in the chair where the King sits every four years or sometimes less when he visits congress. They even had a professional photographer come in and take our photo since we could not take our own photos.
This is down town Madrid in the heart of the city.
We ate lunch in this restaurante where the rich and famous have eaten. Sophia Loren's signed photo was just one of them. Below are two kinds of paella. The one on the right was the best, but not as good as Angeles' paella. I am not saying that because she is my wife and reads this.
After that we ended the day with a dinner at a great seafood restaurante. You knew it was good by how filled it was and they just kept coming even after 11:00 at night.
The kids are toasting the great time we had.
From there we went and met up with Angeles' brother and his family for a personal tour of the congress building. Since Javier is third in line in the Education Ministry in Spain he had a friend (the guy in this picture who is a member of the House of Representatives) arrange and give us the tour. We sat in the President of Spain's seat as well as in the chair where the King sits every four years or sometimes less when he visits congress. They even had a professional photographer come in and take our photo since we could not take our own photos.
This is down town Madrid in the heart of the city.
We ate lunch in this restaurante where the rich and famous have eaten. Sophia Loren's signed photo was just one of them. Below are two kinds of paella. The one on the right was the best, but not as good as Angeles' paella. I am not saying that because she is my wife and reads this. The last full day in Spain was a whirlwind. I don't know how we got everything in. To start out we went to the temple and we did baptisms. The kids did 20 confirmations a piece and 40 baptisms. The names were from Holland, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, The USA, Canada, and it seems a few others. The hardest to pronounce for me were those names from Holland. I hope they forgive me for butchering their names. Kevin loved the Madrid subway so much he said he could ride it all day long. 
The Metro was not too crowded everytime we got on. They say that the best time to visit Madrid is in July and August when everybody from Madrid has left on vacation.
Here is the President of Spain, Zapatero. And to keep her promise in the second photo Angeles is shaking his hand.
The Metro was not too crowded everytime we got on. They say that the best time to visit Madrid is in July and August when everybody from Madrid has left on vacation.
Here is the President of Spain, Zapatero. And to keep her promise in the second photo Angeles is shaking his hand.Here is the Minister of Education, but more important to some, The minister of Sports as well. She was at the Eurocup Final and also at Wimbeldon for Rafa Nadal's win against Federer.
After that we ended the day with a dinner at a great seafood restaurante. You knew it was good by how filled it was and they just kept coming even after 11:00 at night.The kids are toasting the great time we had.
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