Parque del Oeste

Dinner tonight was another bacon hamburger with fries. She also made us peas with ham. The ham (or serrano) came from a dry-cured pig leg that sits on her counter. These pig legs are everywhere. Bars and discos have cutting stations inside just for people who want to eat dried ham pieces. (last night was salmon, and the night before that was steak!). I like to gloat to a lot my friends about how awesome our dinners are, cause a lot of them have mundane 1-course dinners. Once they start to sulk about how ehh their dinners are I like to tell them that I had bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast every day this week. (Breakfasts here are supposed to be bread and yogurt.)

Today I spent some time working on my Spanish and econ presentations coming up this week. I found a really nice spot at the campus where I hope only I know about (it has a cool view of the mountain range outside Madrid. Here are some pictures of it as well as other pictures of the main building where many classes are held.

Oh yah it got up to something like 65 degrees today.

At 3PM i went out running to a park also nearby, Parque del Oeste, largest park i think in Madrid from what it looks like on the map.The park was of course decked out in inordinate sculptures and fountains, I tried not to stop and take pictures of  all of them but I think I did. Their was also a massive flower garden, probably an acre, of numerous flower patches, (not in bloom yet so ill have to go back and get a picture)

Saw a bunch of dogs today too. No leash laws here in Spain so its very rare to see dogs leashed up, even in the city. (easy explanation as to why there is dog crap everywhere) Surprisingly they dont attack at people or at other dogs here. Maybe that's just Daisy.

Right next to the park was a old rail road which was pretty cool to go down. A lot of look out points and bridges to view the outskirts of the city. After the railroad i got to what seemed was the main part of the park because of all the congregated people sitting down on the grass. It was very popular today i guess because of the first day I think since ive been here where it was shorts weather. This was where the best view of the outskirts of Madrid was. I saw a couple of people juggling bowling pins (which was very impressive) as well as a guy who was absolutely amazing with the toy that i don't know the name of. (the one with the spinning object that spins on the rope by jerking your hands up and down). Anyway that was cool, heres some pictures.

These pictures are from the park.