Madrid-the city

hey guys,
went to madrid yesterday, on sunday my free day. i get weekends off. i met up with two au pairs christelle who is french, suzi who is austrian, and another girl who speaks english who works for virgin mobile whose name is melonie. they showed me the city a bit and we sat at a cafe on a terraza and had a drink, ie i drank diet coke not beer. they then proceeded to tell me how awefull being an au pair is, that they work 60 hours a week and only get paid for 25!! in the family i work with the girl is very sweet, i love her, the mom gets mad sometimes, and the dad is very passive. but considered to the other au pairs i now feel lucky to be living with this family. so madrid. yesterday i arrived at madrid at the metro station, la puerta del sol, the door to the sun. i then proceeded to plaza mayor, did some shopping with the other au pair then they had to go early, becuase they live much farther away from madrid then i do. i proceeded to exploring madrid on my own. i walked about 3 hours, taking pictures of various churches and monuments. i ended up walking on paseo del prado, the prado walkway which is a very famous and beautiful arts walkway in the city. i saw plaza de cebeles, palacio de cibeles, museo thyssen, and museo nacional de prado, 2 of the most famous mueseums in all of spain, but for now only from the outside, the real jardin botanico, beautiful gardens, lined with statues of famous spanish people, and pictures from inside the prado, and lastly i arrived at museo nacional centro de arte reina sophia, which was beautiful from the outside, ayuntamiento de madrid, the town hall, and the train station to get back to leganes, atocha. atocha is a very cool train station, you go inside and it is as if you have stepped into a palace. there is literally a forest of trees indoors. in general in spain i find myself not being able to go anywhere without a camara, everything is so beautiful, antic, and gorgoues. the country is so rich with culture and history around every corner, and i want to remember abselutly everything. first from 8am010am i teach the girl english. then today i went running outside in leganes. i ran to the duck pond, which only takes 10 minutes. there is a really nice bike path, surrounded by trees from both sides, which is nice and shady to run on. then i ran around the duck pond, and it´s really nice, a lot of people like to run outside here, you see kids playing in the playgrounds, sprinklers going off, which by the way i jumped into a few on my run, and there is a beautiful landcape. as i was running i saw the ducks walking beside me, the sparkling lake, the bridge across the lake, and the outskirts of leganes. they have a really cool park here, where the workout machines such as bikes, eliptical machines, arm weights, leg weighs, etc, are outside, made out of yellow and red metal. it´s meant for the old people of the community, but everyone uses it. so that´s that, i went swimming, cleaned the house a bit, now lunch time, then later more english with the girl, and off to the pool again,
chao chicos
xox besitos xox