My Obsession With Calder

While Madrid is more often known for its famous works by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Juan Miro, I was most excited to see some quality Alexander Calder mobiles at the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art.  The Guernica (Picasso's huge take on the bombing of Guernica and the tragedies and suffering of war) was very cool to see in real life.  Miro is too out there for me to understand, so I didn't bother analyzing the dots and lines of his works.  However Calder is my hero, and I love the way he balances and counterbalances shapes. Such cool stuff.

A walk through some late blooming flowers in the Botanical garden and the Retiro (similar to Central Park) before few more adventures trying to find Morgan Stanley so that Kat could take a picture of her employer's Madrid branch.  (We made it in the front door but weren't even allowed to take a picture of the sign!)

Our last day in Madrid included some souvenir shopping for Kat, eating churros con chocolate (think fried dough, kind of like funnel cake, but twice the size of french fries, to dip in melted chocolate in a mug), and then a few hours at the pool at Kat's aunt and uncle's condo.  Dinner was tapas at a restaurant in the suburbs - so tasty!