Day 5 - Toledo / Madrid, Spain - June 15th

Today was our first touring day with Cosmos. We left the hotel at 8:30 and did a bus tour of the city. We made 3 stops. One was at the bull ring, then a memorial for the author of Don Quixote, and then the palace. We then drove to Toledo, which is a about a 30 minute drive. Toledo was the capital of Spain until a hundred or so years ago. It is an old city, built in the 12th century on a hill surrounded by a river. The roads are all narrow and twisty. The first thing we did was get lunch. We got tapas at a restaurant and it was all really good. I bought a box a mazapan too, because Toledo is famous for it and I had no idea what it was. They are little cakes that taste a bit like cookie dough. We then went into the cathedral. It was very fancy and beautiful and had a lot of gold and jewels in it. Megan really likes the cathedrals. There is nothing like them in Idaho. We also went into another church with an original El Greco painting. When we got back to our hotel, we video chatted with Dave and the kids for a bit. They were just sitting down to breakfast on Father’s Day. We ate some snacks for dinner. Then we decided we wanted to go see the Madrid temple. We took the metro and walked around the temple grounds. Josh gave a talk today and he emailed it to me, so we read that and read our scriptures. Some sister missionaries were giving a tour so we joined them for a bit. As we were about to leave, all the MTC missionaries came out and sang several hymns on the temple stairs. It was wonderful!