Crystal Palace

I totally stole this picture from the Madrid Daily Photo web-site. I have to double-check w/ my mother but I think this is the place where you can rent rowboats in Madrid. My mother has told me a story about how when I was very, very little, we (my mom, dad & me) went out on a boat at the Crystal Palace and I totally and completely freaked out. My mother said I was crying so bad she thought I was actually going to jump out of the boat. They had to turn the rowboat around I was screaming so bad. Maybe it was the ducks. I don't like ducks. They are nasty. And geese, too. blech