Sleepy Zaragoza

​July 6

We ended up in Zaragosa because it was the only place we could get to last minute from Madrid. None of us have been here before, and it appears there isn’t all that much to do.

We slept in this morning before walking to the Aljafería Palace. There’s a beautiful riad inside, but other than a Goya exhibit, there wasn’t all that much to see. We are now officially in the middle of the European heat wave, and we were eager to get indoors.

One of our interesting finds for the day was a shop called Taste of America that had all kinds of goofy American snacks like Cheeto flavored mac & cheese, cream soda, and ramen.

Tonight was the first evening that we split up to do our own things. I stayed in, Alastair and Magnolia went out for dinner to have suckling pig (a bucket list food for him), and Dagny went to walk around on her own. After dinner, Magnolia and Dagny went out to the bars. They’re very much enjoying the freedom of being their own adults in Europe.

July 7

Yesterday was so slow that we knew we needed a solid plan for today to stay busy. With the heat, we also knew that it had to be indoors.

We started the day by taking the tram to a new part of town. We found a Nespresso café to get fancy Americanized coffee. Our lattes were delicious and had ice cream and cookies in them. We’ve been playing cards everywhere we go. This morning as we played Rook, we got to FaceTime our mom which was delightful.

After coffee, we walked to the Zaragosa aquarium with low expectations. It ended up being great. Two full floors of freshwater fish, saltwater fish, turtles, alligators, birds, monkeys, and more. 

From the aquarium, we walked to a giant shopping mall. We stopped at the food court for lunch and had KFC and fruit smoothies. We played more cards before shopping for white clothes to wear to the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Everyone found some good items and then we headed back to our place for FOB in the AC. 

It was movie night back at our Airbnb. We wanted to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. However, we couldn’t find it for free on YouTube so we ended up watching The Ron Clark Story with Matthew Perry, which was actually very good. Leaving Zaragoza tomorrow and we feel as though we have exhausted all there is to do.

Adelaide