Today we slept in until 10, which felt great! Then headed to the metro (after another Starbucks run) and went to the train station. We walked in to find police in riot gear and heard lots of cheering. Turns out the train workers were on strike. I felt like I was back in Madison at the capital building :) After much trouble, since there were no people working ticket counters, the machines were only in Spanish, and the machine didn't like our chip-less credit cards, we bought two tickets for Toledo, but they didn't leave for about an hour and a half. So we sat and read for a while, saw a crazy pool full of turtles, and people watched. Train ride itself was uneventful, caught a cab up into the city and spent a few hours walking around. We stopped for a late lunch, then walked back to the train station. Ride back also uneventful (I took a 20 min nap :) ) and took the (now very busy) metro to our hotel about 8. Showered and went to dinner, sat outside near Puerta del Sol for great people watching, stopped for frozen yogurt on our way back.
At the bull fight yesterday you could buy food and drinks outside and carry them in. No one checked my purse, commented on my camera, or patted me down. Today at the train we had to run our bags through metal detectors, but could carry in liquids, didn't go through scanners ourselves, left our shoes on ... amazing how weird I found that :)
Museums tomorrow and then the Manchester City v Real Madrid soccer match!
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