Kelly and Pablo in Madrid: Mother's Day

We spent American Mother´s Day weekend going to parks! We realized that parks are our new world and we have found some good ones. When you have kids and don´t have a house with a yard and live in the city, parks become your friend. I know Gabriela can´t walk yet but all my memories as a child are riding my bike and playing in the woods behind my house and thinking that Gabriela won´t have that experience, as of now, makes me sad. So I´m glad we have found some good parks she will get to run around and play in.
On Saturday our friend Carol took us to Parque Europa which has mini versions of famous european monuments along with various playgrounds and activities like pony rides, ropes course, trampolines and small rides. The park is free but if you want to do any activities you pay. It was a really nice park and great that it is free and we imagine we will be returning many times in the future.
On Sunday we planned a picnic and ended up going to Parque Juan Carlos I which is closer by our house. It is a huge park and we found a nice spot in the shade and laid out our blanket and ate our picnic of tortilla, chorizo, pasta salad and apple slices (nice spanish/american mix!). Gabriela had some apple sauce and finally took a little siesta. After we took Goonie to the dog area so he got to run around and meet some new friends.
It was actually a warm sunny day which this year has been quite rare (we can´t believe how much rain we have had) so we brought Gabriela home and threw her in the kiddie pool. It was her first time in the pool and she liked it!