Mom Dad and Noah in Madrid November 18-27

My parents and little brother noah came to Madrid to visit me for 10 days over thanksgiving. While they were here they visited el Escorial, Segovia, Toledo, and we went to Venice Italy.  While in Madrid they stayed in SOL which is in the center of the city. 

When they first got there we ate at a restaurant in plaza mayor.

Noah and dad loved the café con leche.

We took a train to el Escorial an old monastery north of Madrid.

We also ate at the oldest restaurant in the world, el Botin it opened in the 18 hundreds.

My parents wanted to meet my friends in the program so they took us all out for paella.

Noah and I went to a Real Madrid futbol game. We sat 8^th row  with my host dad.

One night my real family came over to have dinner with my host family, it was really fun and interesting to see how everyone would communicate the dads got along well and spoke English and I had to do a bit of translating for my moms but it worked out well.

They were still in Madrid for thanksgiving so we went on hunt for a thanksgiving dinner and we found one. It was not exactly what we thought it would be but it was alright.

un Fin de semana con mi familia españoles en Toledo: November 12 & 13

Hace tres semanas fui a Toledo con mi familia españoles Juan, Maru y Adriana. Fuimos a Toledo porque era el cumpleaños de Juan. Cumpleaños son muy importante in Espana, es un grande fiesta de familia. Era muy divertido. La ciudad era muy bonito y antiguo. Conocí la familia de Juan y ellos era muy simpatico. Comí muy bien porque la madre de Juan es un buen cocinar. Yo tenía un buen tiempo! 

Three weeks ago I went to Toledo with my spanish family Juan, Maru and Adriana. We went to Toledo because it was Juan's birthday. Birthdays are very important in Spain, its a big family party. It was very fun. The city was very pretty and old. I met Juan's family and they were very nice. I ate very well because Juan's mother is a great cook. I had a good time!

Toledo is a beautiful city!

Road trip! Isn't she so cute :)

I love how the streets are so narrow.

I really liked how the Spanish flag looked over this beautiful building.

Adriana and I 

There was some type of old car show in the middle of the city. Juan told us that he used to have a mini cooper and he is telling Adriana about it.

Maru and Adriana walking down the narrow streets.

She got some chocolate ice cream and it got everywhere.

An outside view of the city looking in.

After walking around Toledo for a while we went to the house of Juans parents. It was in a little pueblo outside of the city. They lived in a very small town but a very large house.

This is the main plaza in the pueblo.

These are the stairs inside the house, they were so beautiful, all tile.

Adriana jumping rope in the living room.

This is looking down one of the two large hall ways in the house, there were so many bedrooms! 

The cousins painting.

I saw a John Deer tractor while going on a walk with Maru, I got really excited and took a picture, Maru thought that was funny.

Its interesting, in the kids parks here the equipment is more like workout style rather than play style.

Standing in front of an old church on the top of a hill.

Me with my host grandparents. They were the sweetest people :)

I feel so fortunate to have such a great host family that takes me places and inclues me in their lives every day, and I feel like they sincerely care about me. I love them and I am going to miss them soo much.