On Monday, we woke up at 5am. We had AMAZING breakfast-yogurt, fruit, cookies, and of course croissants with nutella! We got a taxi to the airport and listened to Italian pop music all the way. Got psalms and holy water through security! We took a shuttle and got on our plane. It left around 8:15am from Rome and got to Barcelona at 10:15am or so. When we were walking through the Barcelona airport, we overheard a British lady say, "If you pay a little more for your nickers, they last longer than that cheap shit." Gosh, I want to go to England!
We took a shuttle to the city center and sat in Cafe Zurich to wait for the boys. Cory and Taylor had been in Lisbon for the first part of their Semana Santa and came to meet up with us in Barcelona. We told them to meet us by the small fountain in the plaza and watched as they walked right by us to the big fountain. We decided to take some pictures of them looking for us so we hid in the trees and got some pretty good ones. We got a little to close and they saw us...oops. We eventually all met up and they weren't too mad. They never did get to our small fountain anyways. We metroed to the Holiday Inn and checked into our room. All 5 of us stayed in the same room. Taylor ended up sleeping on the floor a couple nights but we made it work.
We walked to the beach, found sea shells, swam a bit (it was freezing cold!), and buried Taylor in the sand and made outfits for him. We went back to the hotel, showered, and went to a restaurant near our hotel for supper. It was okay food. We went back to the hotel and went to bed.
On Tuesday, we got up at 9am, at breakfast in the hotel-DELICIOUS!, and walked to the bus station to try to get tickets for a bus home to Caceres on Thursday. The bus that went directly from Barcelona to Caceres was full, so we had to get tickets for a bus to Madrid and then a bus from Madrid to Caceres. We walked to the Sagrada Familia, a famous cathedral that is still underconstruction and has been for over 100years. It was designed by Gaudi, a Spanish architect who we learned about in our Spanish art class. When we got there, we found out that there was a fire, so we could not go in. Apparently some 55 year old guy who had been acting suspicious the last few days set some of the priests' robes on fire in the Sacristy in the crypt. I don't know how much damage there was.
We walked to Parc Guell, another thing designed by Gaudi, and saw the famous lizard and park benches. We saw this absolutely crazy guy dressed in leopard print tights, a leather vest, and sunglasses that were shaped like electric guitars who was playing music in the park. He played "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" and we all sang along. He was the most crazy person I have ever seen...I really think his brain was gone from too many drugs. Good entertainer though.
Next, we walked down Paseo de Gracias and walked past a couple famous houses that Gaudi designed. We waited in line to go inside one, but decided it was too expensive. In line, we met Rhonda and her husband-bold New Yorkers. Rhonda told us she was going to go "hablabla some Spanish to find out what was going on" and her husband stayed and talked to us. I think she assumed that we didn't know Spanish at all. Oh well. Their accents were hilarious and we enjoyed meeting them.
As we continued down the road, it turned into Las Ramblas, the famous shopping street of Barcelona. We stopped at H&M and I bought a dress. We continued down Las Ramblas until we got to the ocean and boat docks. We metroed to the hotel and went to the grocery store to get food for supper. We ate lots of cheese sandwiches, chips, apples, and breakfast cookies from the grocery store while in Barcelona to try to cut down on how much we spent on food. It was nice to eat some Americanish food for once. We were going to go out, but changed our minds and stayed in the hotel, telling stories, listening to music, and watching movies. At 2am we finally went to sleep. Taylor kept scaring Lizzy and I by standing at the edge of our bed and trying to grab our feet.
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