Day 62: Cabbaging and Retiro (five minutes too late)

After having so much fun with my familia last night and not arriving at L's until late late late with all my luggage, it was a Saturday to do some serious sleeping in, followed by some serious hot summer afternoon, scantily-clad cabbaging on the couch with good 'ol Spanish gossip magazines and MTV. Ah... bliss! <3

It wasn't until 5 pm that we found ourselves dressed, primped (yeah – L let me CURL her HAIR today – omg SCANDAL... she looked adorable!!) and out the door. >_< Sam and G had also taken the day to recoup and conquer their jet-lag once and for all and take a little stroll around their neighborhood. :) When we finally met up, we grabbed a little lunch, bought a huge baguette of bread, took some cute pictures near Puerta Alcala...

... and headed for Retiro to feed the ferocious ducks, giant-sized fish, teeny tiny turtles and ditzy black swans.

Really, all I wanted to do was go on the boats in the mini-lake in the middle of the park, but we'd arrived a few minutes too late (and stopped to take pictures with SpongeBob. Damn Esponja Bob... it was all HIS fault) and were the first ones in line to be told there would be no more boat rides for the day. :( L and G seemed relieved, while Sam and I stopped off, upset. Haha.

Feeding the crazy pond animals did truly make up for the boat disappointment, though! I'd thought a whole baguette was going to be WAY too much, but it was so much fun hitting the ditzy swans on the head and watching the Ducks that Meant Business competing with the terrifyingly large fish that we used the whole thing up in no time! Sam really got into the whole thing, as you can see (LOL):

 

 We strolled around the park a bit, taking pictures and enjoying the evening. Retiro is really quite relaxing in the midst of the Madrid heat, because it seems much cooler around all of the trees and lakes. *mmm...*

There were some good pictures from the day, but my favorite one had to have been this one - I have absolutely NO idea what was going on, but there are just so many captions one could write for it... hahaha!!

 

During our stroll, Sam and I found a crazy hole in a tree and I taught him how to raptor walk on the site of the First Raptor Walk in Spain. ;)

Soon enough the sun began to set...

 

... and we headed back to their hotel to make hotel reservations for their last night in Madrid after the cruise and L and I headed home, making it back before 3:30 am for a change! :) For being such a short day of exploration, it sure was a hoot!

XOXO

Jet-set Cupcake