My parents, sister and her boyfriend Skip all meet us in Madrid for the week. 
We rented an apartment in a great location in Madrid and enjoyed the cool weather and benefits of being in a beautiful European city (wine, pork, chocolate, ice cream - well you get the idea). 
Jaydon got to meet some of the locals though his favorite was playing in all the nice green grass. 
Steve also had fun playing with the settings on our new camera which ended up getting some really great pictures of Jaydon playing in the grass with his balloon sword. 
Jaydon discovered that his favorite kind of ice cream is 'pink' ice cream and that eating it in 50 degree weather is much easier because you don't have to worry about quite as big of a drippy mess. Though you do end up a little cold after that snack, I think he got to experince shivering for the first time too. 
Jaydon spent some quality time with his Aunt Sarah, they played, read books and watched Gigglebellies (note for all you moms who need some 'new' kids songs/cartoons I'd recommend this one - just search on youtube for it, I'm too lazy to go find the link for it right now). 
The highlight of Madrid for Jaydon was definitly the zoo and we had a perfect day for it! 
He loved showing off all the animal sounds and noises he can make and seeing all the animals he knows from books and baby einstein for real. 
His favorite was the elephant, we had to visit him many times. He also got to pretend to be a leemer with Aunt Sarah and Skip. 
These are the MeMe's which is the name he's made up for cats, when he saw the panther he said it was Midnight which is the name of an all black cat that lives in our compound. 
Next we visited the Giraffes, the Monkeys, and the Gorillas. 
The bears were very impressive, they looked so cuddly yet so hungry. 
The zoo also had a great dolphin show with some very enthusiastic perfomers. 
After the show they hung around to say hi to all the kids through the glass. 
But Jaydon's favorite show was the seals, I think he liked how clumsy they were and the fact that most of the activites involved a ball of some type or another. 
The last stop was the petting zoo where Jaydon got to pet and feed some cows and goats and all the other animals on Old MacDonald's farm (one of Jaydon's favorite songs). 
Madrid is home to the oldest resturant in the world so we made sure to eat lunch there one day. 
Their specialtiy is roast piglet and yes this is an entire wall of them ready to be thrown into the wood fire stove before geting served. 
The grand finale for the Madrid visit was taking my Dad to the Shakira concert for his birthday. It was a great show even if a majority of the songs were in spanish. 
Aunt Sarah and Skip kindly volunteered to babysit Jaydon and the rest of us went out, enjoyed the music and stayed up much too late.Sarah, Skip and Steve had to head home after our week in Madrid but the granparents and I weren't finished with Spain yet, now on to Barcelona but that's for another day...
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