4 days in Madrid

We had a great time in Madrid. The temple is beautiful. The city is huge and the metro is clean and nice.

Madrid had beautiful Christmas lights and decorations.

We loved eating at Hard Rock Cafe. Gotta love that hot fudge brownie.

We found a great park for the kids to play in the middle of downtown. The boys took a rest on this bench to get the rocks out of their shoes.

Luckily, the baby likes the food wherever we go! I went to the pharmacy to buy him some baby food and since I don't speak spanish, I tried asking in English and Italian. When I still couldn't be understood, I resorted to charades. The lady showed me a baby food bottle with fruit on it so I said, "si". When Todd translated the bottle for me, I ended up buying a fruit dessert with sugar. He loved his dinner that night!

A very merry Christmas!

Breakfast with Santa at Warwick Castle

Luke is our first baby that didn't cry when we put him on Santa's lap.

He just wanted to pull that white beard!

After breakfast, we toured the castle. We climbed over 500 stairs to reach the top of this tower. Todd gets the prize for carrying Luke to the top. Luke weighs over 20 pounds! Go dad! The next morning, Todd and I had sore legs. When I asked the kids if they were sore from climbing all those stairs, they said, "what stairs?"

The view of the river Avon from the top of the tower.

The boys loved playing in the snow from the machine.

This might be the closest they'll get to playing in snow this winter.

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

Cucumbers for breakfast

This morning I asked Mary what she wanted for breakfast and she said, "Cucumbers on the couch while I watch Playhouse Disney." Normally I don't let my kids eat in front of the T.V., but when a 3 year old asks for a plate of veggies for breakfast, how can you say no?! She ate the whole thing!

Look who's sitting all by himself!

.............................Then again, maybe laying down is better!.............