Day 1.6 Madrid to Washington DC
Not much of note happened today. We did sit a lot. Whether it was at the airport in Madrid after a long sleepless night or on an 8 hour flight, or on a one hour bus ride once in DC, whatever it was, we generally just sat there.
One cool thing did happen, not counting arriving back in the U.S. safe and sound. While on the plane, Auna searched through the movies and found "The Way". This is an Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen movie about a father walking the Camino de Santiago. We knew about this movie and were excited to see that it opens in the US in early October. It opened in Europe in May:). So here we are on a plane, all simultaneously watching a movie on the very journey we just took, marveling at all them little things in the movie that we knew only pilgrims who had been there would get. We recognized locations, situations, even scenes in which they were technically walking the wrong way! Ok, I will extend them artistic license.
Overall, it was great and I hope you all get a chance to watch it. The bad thing is that the movie only ate up a small chunk of the flight. We still have 6 more hours!
Those 6 hours went by quicker than expected and soon we were on the ground at Dulles international airport. Customs was a breeze, passports were stamped, and we were officially back in the country.
Although it is only 7pm here as we check into the hotel on the Potomic river, our bodies think it is about 1am and we will probably go to bed soon, whether we want to or not.
We have a full day tomorrow. Monuments, museums, zoo, and dinner with east coast relatives await. Glad to be back:)
James
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