This past week has been pretty good.  Not much to speak of.  Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Lucia and I went to her friend's swimming pool.  I enjoyed it as much as she did, because her friend's older sister is my age, and we have become friends (Irene).  I get to lay in the sun for a little bit, play cards with people my age, and Lucia gets to play with her friends.  It is a win win situation!

Yesterday, Lucia and I took the train to Atocha, a train station in Madrid.  It is very close to el retiro, the park, and to a museum, La Reina Sofia.  The museum is where we decided to go, because when we had gone to El Retiro earlier, we had gotten free tickets to go the museum.

It was a fantastic museum.  The art was mostly Spanish artists, but I guess I expected that.  There were lots of Picasso, and Dali, Goya, Miro... I loved it.  Especially the Dali pieces.  He was quite a talented artist, even more so before he went crazy and melted clocks.

Today, Lucia and I went rollerblading.  What an experience that was.  Being a child that grew up on dirt roads, I know nothing about rollerblading.  I made out ok though, only one near fall, and I caught myself.  But I blame the bumpy sidewalk, and the boots for digging into my legs.  But it was an experience, and I have to admit, fun.

Today when Carmen gets home from work, we are leaving for the weekend to visit her cousin.  They live in the mountains, in a small village, where they grow cherries.  It's about a three and a half hour drive, much better than the drive to Calpe.  I think I can handle this.  I even bought a few gummy candies to help keep the kids nto bored, so they don't yell whilst in the car.

This promises to be a good weekend.  I will try to take pictures, and load them to facebook when I get a chance.  Hope you guys are looking at the pictures there, because it's a lot of work to come and load them here.  Plus I'm lazy.  You're lucky I'm writing at all :P