We then successfully navigated to a larger grocery store near the airport. I selected a Mercadona, which is reportedly one of the few stores in the world that is good to its workers (along with Trader Joe's and Costco). We parked right next to the store and stocked up on heavy items (gotta love shelf stable milk), invested in some European diapers, but did not buy any of the whole fish whose smell permeated the store and got Sammy all worked up.
After quickly dropping off the supplies, we headed over to my Spanish colleagues apartment for lunch. We managed to park nearby AND figure out the way to pay for parking (not as easy as it seems!). We headed up a tiny elevator, walked down a dim hallway, and then came into a bright, airy, cheerful space that was incredibly welcoming. Andres and his wife, Mellika, had prepared a beautiful lunch with appetizers of shrimp and avocados and pimento filled olives, roast beef for the adults, and lamb chops for the children. Our kids quickly explored the apartment and played with nearly all of their daughter Sedda's toys. Or maybe all of them. We finished with a rousing game of European Jenga, in which engineer Andres helped the kids avoid knocking down the tower.
We then had a restful evening, enjoying the life of Madrid. Our car here is pretty cool- a Peugeot 5008 which meets our demands for sometimes holding 7 passengers without being too big. It also has a panoramic roof, which is difficult to capture from the inside, but this picture shows at least roughly how the entire roof is a giant window. Awesome for admiring tall buildings or gazing at the clouds or stars.
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