May 2 Independence Day Celebrations in Madrid

This was on the metro on the way to the show on friday night. We stopped at starbucks on the way and this is how they spelled my name...Lishia...i'm not sure how they got that but I thought it was funny :)These are the girls we met up with to watch the show. Its Alycia on the left and then Jana and me and Wendy. We had a really good time and the show was really interesting. We all agreed that it pretty much beat any independence day show we have seen in the US.
This is Banco de Espana, or the bank of spain. Its just the front..it actually goes down the whole block.

Sorry that these pictures are kind of blurry but its hard to get them clear when its dark. This is a giant wheel that people are inside of and making it turn.
Here is a shot of some fireworks...I kind of missed the best part but I have it on video too, which is better.
This was the part when they were narrating how the French wanted to take over Spain and that Napoleon's brother was pretending to be a friend to Spain, when he really had ulterior motives. If you look, you can see a guy hanging from the crane arm...he was a soldier or something. This was kind of strange...those are all people on those two things. It was to depict when there was like a massacre of people by the French and they shot off fireworks and then all the people on those things pretended to be dead. It was kind of morbid.

This is a shot of behind me...you can see the metropolis building in the middle. This street is Alcala and when you get to the metropolis building you can go right or left. If you go left, it stays Alcala and it runs into Puerta del Sol, which is a really famous part of madrid and where all the shopping is. If you turn left it is Gran Via, which is also a very famous street for shopping and it is the one that I life just off of.

Here is a closer view of the Metropolis with me. The crowd moved out really fast so we were able to take a few pictures on the way out.