Madrid

Over my Spring Break, which was 15-25 April, I went to Madrid and then Morocco. We left for Madrid on Friday, the 15th of April. By we I mean myself and my friends Erika (Mexican-American) and Hannah (German). In order to get to Madrid though, we had to take a train to Santiago de Compostela, because Ryanair (a cheap airline here in Europe) doesn't fly to Vigo. After an hour and a half of listening to our Ipods and watching the Galician countryside go by, we were in Santiago.
Then I got to have my first experience with Ryanair. I've heard horror stories about this airline, but I thought it was fine. Not any different from any other plane, except the seats are a little closer together.
Anyway, we arrived in Madrid without any problems, and then we used the Metro to get to our hostel. (Slightly off topic, but the Metro is without a doubt, the greatest invention ever. Every city should have a metro station. We got from the airport to our hostel in about 5 minutes, which is like, a thirty minute cab ride.)
We stayed at Cat's Hostel, which I would highly recommend if you ever go to Madrid. It's pretty much in the middle of the Plaza Mayor and the Prado Museum, and we walked to the Royal Palace in about 5 minutes.
So we arrived in Madrid Friday afternoon, and we just kind of chilled. We walked around a bit, and made it to the Plaza Mayor without really trying.
Saturday, we went to the Cathedral and the Royal Palace, which was probably my favorite place in Madrid. It's not permitted to take photos inside the building, so I don't have any from there, but it was really beautiful.
Royal Palace!
We also went to the Prado Museum on Saturday, which is one of the world's most famous museums, and I think it's the largest one in Spain, but I'm not sure about that.
It was really interesting, and it's definitely the biggest museum I've ever been to. We went at 6, because entry is free from 6-8 every day, so we only had two hours there. I think in order to see everything, you would need half a day or all day. We saw a couple floors of the museum, but that was it.
Sunday was really relaxing for us. We went to the Park of Buen Retiro and just chilled all morning.
After that, we went to the mall for a little while, and then we went to another park, which was outside the Royal Palace and just chilled for a while there as well.
We had to leave on Monday though, Erika and I went to Morocco and Hannah went to Granada. I was originally going to talk about Morocco in this post too, but I think it's gotten long enough, so I'll just leave it at that. I'll be posting about Morocco fairly soon though!