
So, one thing I didn't mention about El Escorial is that this is where the majority of former kings and queens of Spain and their families are entombed. The majority of them are in a downstairs room with no windows. The pictures I posted show the hallway and stairs leading down to it and then the actual room itself. So, we had just gone down there and said hey to Carlos IV and Felipe II and their friends. We are starting to ascend the stairs to leave when...............blackout. Apparently the dead kings and queens weren't amused by all the random people creeping around, so the power completely went out. We hurriedly shuffled up the stairs thinking that we'd be in a far less creepy place for the rest of the power outage. Little did we know that we had just begun to explore the section of the monastery that was completely dedicated to all the deceased. I made a couple blair-witch-project-esque videos on my camera. And the good thing that came from the blackout is that we were then allowed to use the flash on our cameras. To celebrate this I started taking pictures of everything, including postcards in the randomly and haphazardly set-up gift shop in the middle of dead man's row. It was very uplifting?
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