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My Time of Day!

Dear Reader,


If you don't recognize that song title, it is from Guys and Dolls, the Musical. Sky, the protagonist, sings it to his girl as they arrive in New York City in the "wee small hours of the morning" (Bonus points to whoever can guess that reference). Sky talks about how much he loves the morning hours because of the beautiful sights and the stillness of the city. With that in mind, take a gander at this:

Toledo
Welcome to Toledo at 7 AM! It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Now, this picture is brought to you via our awesome trip that started at 4:30 AM. Yes, that is right. We got up at 4, left for the train that left at 5:10 to Madrid. From there we took the Metro to the Bus station. For further emphasis, I love Alcalá de Henares and Madrid at those early morning hours as well. Taking a bus at 6:30, we arrived in Toledo and found this view on our way to our destination. Someday I will show it to you in person.

The driveway(?) we found. 
We took our trip to Toledo for Santi. He, through a series of miraculous connections, got in contact with one of the top Spanish Neurologists at the National Hospital for Paraplegics in Toledo. They agreed on a time to meet and allow Santi to shadow a Neurologist for the day. It was a marvelous opportunity for him. I'm glad he got to meet all those people and learn everything he did. 

Me? I took a lovely tour around Toledo for the day. People watching, shopping (Gasp!) and sight-seeing were the first few things on my list of things to do. I also went on adventures with my good friend, Liz. 

We decided to take an adventure and explore a hill across the river from the Cathedral in Toledo. We climbed the hill and after finding a fork in the road, we chose the right. After going down for awhile, we slowly started wondering whether we were on a driveway. We decided to turn back, but the picture above in the curve of the road/driveway we went down. We went up the rest of the hill and even found a friend on our way back down. Several, actually. The first one was a dog. He barked at us for about a minute before he finally came closer to us and was suddenly our best friend, snuggling up to us and licking our hands. We also found a snake that Liz was going to catch, but she decided it was probably a bad idea. We didn't want to go see Santi in the Hospital before he was done. 

Thus, Toledo is another place on our tour of Spain.

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