First tour...

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So after the culture and language lessons today, my little group had tapas. Tapas are just like small dishes that you share. Like everybody ordering one appetizer and passing it around, but it is actually the meal. Tapas are great and cheaper with larger groups.
After that we had a walking tour at night around the Plaza Mayor. The Plaza Mayor is basically just the old main square. For all our tours, the guides are just teachers. We have about 10 groups and only 2 are in English, but I'm in the English groups with my suitemates and Bart, Lindsay, and Greg. You can check out the pictures to know what I saw.

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Photos

The Metro
We traveled on the Metro to get to Plaza Mayor The Metro is so nice! They are clean and amazingly efficient ad much simplier to understand.

Sol
Sol is basically the center place in the city where everything is happening. This is just the one grand building.

Tio Pepe
This is another view of Sol. It's just like Times Square in NYC to Madrid.

Sol Statue
This statue is one of the many past kings, Carlos II.

Plaza Mayor statue
Another kings statue and this one is Felipe II.

The famous restaurant
This is the restaurant that Hemingway often ate at, but it's a little expensive so as my guide said, this is the restaurant your parents take you to when they visit.

For the Vargas'
This is the Vargas palace with an attached church. I mean who doesn't have a personal place of worship.

Some cathedral
This is supposedly an ugly new cathedral that took 100 years to build because no one wanted to give money towards the project. I thought it looked pretty, but whatever.

The royal palace
The Royal Palace, but the king only goes there when like the US president comes. He really lives in the mountains outside of Madrid.

Another statue
I don't even remember which king this one was. I just remember something about the front being hollow to keep it standing, I think. I was falling asleep. Sorry!