My 2nd day in Toledo with Bippy and Gramps was awesome because we walked around town and saw the cathedral, synagogue, and a museum. Also, the resort that we stayed at was fancy and I liked it.
The Parador Resort had really yummy food, great view, and I thought it was cool that it looked like it was made out of an old monastery. On the outside, it looked like the cathedral. It's texture, building materials on the exterior, but inside the Parador was all modern and very comfortable. It had two restaurants. One was relaxed and the other that we ate at was fancy. I had breaded chicken and croquets for tapas. It was yummy. The Parador is on a hill that overlooks the city and the river that hugs the city. Our room had a balcony that looked over some of the city and the pool that would open the day after we checked out. The view made me feel like I was with daddy because it's a view that he would have liked.
The cathedral in Toledo looked really small from the outside, but was very huge on the inside. The cathedral is a museum but used to be a working church with monks in it. Now the rooms are full of information signs and displays. I don't know what they said, but the pictures had different cathedrals and diagrams of how the cathedral was built. Some rooms had statues and murals showing bible stories. Other rooms had just paintings of Mary and Jesus. My favorite room was the treasury. It had a huge gold statue with religious people, angels, and pilgrims walking all around it. There were also, the crown, jewelry, tons of very large bibles, and pretty goblets in the treasury. I think the church was really rich!
The synagogue was strange to see because it was different from the rest of Toledo. The style of the building made it stand out. It reminded me of fast food restaurants because it had a simple roof that reminds me of the SLO McDonalds on Foothill. The other buildings in Toledo were normal apartment building or gothic. The synagogue was mostly empty inside, except for on bench against one wall. That is very different from the cathedrals.
Lastly, we walked to the El Geco Museum which was his house. It looked as if it was built by someone who didn't know how to build because it had crooked shelves and the walls weren't straight. Inside, it had new pots and pans, chairs, and a fire place. I noticed that Greco made the faces in his paints really white. I think he was a Renaissance painter because some of his subjects wore bishops hats and he's not alive any more and in the shops down the street had swords, armor, and lots of knives.
Bippy and Gramps made my day in Toledo memorable. The sights were all different and enjoyable.
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