Madrid

So a lot has happened in the past week and a half so I'm going to split it up so I don't spend so much time writing, because afterall I am here to work hard in school.
So the weekend of my birthday I went to Madrid with my host family. They have some friends that came to Burgos about a month ago, so we stayed with them. Their apartment was amazing! From one of the many balconies you could see the capital building and the palace. You walk outside and there's the opera house and you walk a little more and there's the shopping street. It was in the middle of everything! So pretty!
The first day we got there we had an amazing meal and then we went to the Prado which is an art museum if you didn't know. I saw painting from el Greco, Goya, and Velazquez. Most were very disturbing, but hey they're famous. I have to say my favorite was Saturn devouring his Child. I mean what kind of sick mind creates something like that?
The next day we didn't really do anything, which was nice. We walked down to el museo de romanticismo, but the line was way too long, so we just took a little walk and then went home. On Monday we went to a violin concert in the morning, which was the best part of the trip. It was at a music school right across the street from where we were staying (surprise, surprise). Then I ended up getting sick which will be my next post, but now I have to study philosophy.