adios espana!

squeezed in the thyssen museum this morning before we headed back to the US of A. it's weird to think that tomorrow we will be back in the states able to communicate & travel easily. thank you spain for such a great time & mtview, we will miss you!

mts in madrid.

finally went to the mountains with sarah.... hiking, hanging with the bulls walking around & kate getting ready for tim team. holla!

bulls & tight buns.

we actually went to a real life bull fight..... now all the boys will be impressed. it was crazy. kate was a little unsure at first but we got kinda into later. casillas was our favorite. hard core women! 

goodbye mountainview family!

our last sunday was so sad. we had to say goodbye to so many people who we never know if we will see again. 

G. 

we love these kids!

we got to help with KidsZone everyweek. sarah& kate. mati&me! LOVE them.

globo en salmanca.

salmanca with mariano, gloria, noa, & rubben.... LOVE them!

it is said of having the most beautiful plaza mayor in all spain. picnic by the roman bridge, experiencing jamon (ham) for the first time, hanging out with the cutest kids ever. 

a bugs life.

on friday we had a neighborhood party for the kids that live near sarah. it was so fun and also last minute which makes everything better. we scrounged together the supplies we had at the house and had a quick trip to the supercor and got some food supplies for buggy snacks. we also pulled out a few camp games from up our sleeve and everyone thought we were ballers. hah. 



bug sandwhiches. mmm.

tour guide at toledo & marzapan.

toledo!!!

it was the old capital of spain & declared a world heritage city. 

coca-light. always saves the day in spain.

kate the tour guide.

pretty pots everywhere!

also know for their marzapan. delicioso!

7 euro worth cathedral. GOYA. 

toledo is know for a special kind of jewelry. black with gold hammered into it. this man's family has been making it for generations & he even taught us to tell the difference between hand made & machine pressed. mountainview even got us a "going away" gift from here.... thanks madrid family!

hotel wallace & the SCAM.

so the wallace family basically lets ANYONE stay at their house as needed... it really looks like the acts 2 church here.... if you leave food out, someone will eat it if hungry. the other day we had 13 people staying here. it was awesome & fun & like a slumber party everynight.

today we tried to start the youth group... there are only about 5 but it was so hard. basically we hung out at starbucks/ herron city shopping place from like 4:00-9:30. it was a long day but so fun as some other young people came. we played apples to apples with us Americans, a Columbian, 2 Philippinos, a Brazilian, and a British girl.

but while we were there, we saw a real life POLICIA bust! we are just sitting & talking & we see a group of men jump on this guy who starts to struggle & pull that bar thing on this other guys neck... they arrest them, pull out their police vests, & a camera comes over. we are all shocked!!! 

we later found out they were doing some sort of SCAM & there were civilian cops all around. the 2 men were doing like selling but stealing lots of money from people. it was crazy.

a day with danny.

botanical gardens. love them.

church by the prado. 

follow the asian tourist!

daisy chain. for megan.

danny came to madrid for the day. we went to the botanical gardens, sol, plaza mayor, and walked around the prado.

bettina the model.

bettina is starting a tour guide business so she needed some pictures taken of her.... good job kate with the photo shoot!

                                                                                      

"i'm not going to pet you!"

assistants

the model