Carpe Diem

After a nine hour day (6pm-3am) consisting of Law and Order, Bones, Step Up (all in Spanish!) a family trip to go clothes shopping for Clara's (the daughter) upcoming trip I somehow was able to manage waking up on my own 8 hours later. Wohoo! 26 hours of sleep in a weekend is pretty impressive if you ask me - I better not wimp out on today's adventure. No excuses!

So perhaps I slept through all of my Art History classes (if I even took any?), but I had never heard of Velasquez before coming to Spain. It turns out he is so important, that we spent an entire culture class last week talking about him. It was actually a fantastic class, because the teacher was an art major, and was so enthusiastic about sharing the behind-the-scenes information about all of his paintings - you couldn't help but become enthralled. Anyway, one of the things she told us we absolutely, if nothing else, 100% had to do before leaving Madrid was to visit the Museo del Prado. Her secondary request, of the quirkier variety, was to bring a pocket mirror with us to view one of Velasquez's paintings "Las Meninas." Not sure what will happen, but I'm off to go see!