Barcelona was gorgeous. Perfect weather! High 80's and sunny. We started driving to Hahn airport at 3am to make our 630 flight. I hadn't been on Ryan Air before. It reminds me of mass transit with the free for all seating, crazy blue and yellow coloring, and the adds on the overhead bins. We had what appeared to be a bachelor party on the plane with the groom in a pink bunny suit. As much fun as it would have been to find out their story, I was tired. It was a two hour flight and I was out for all of it, all three of us were. We landed and easily hopped on a bus to downtown barcelona where we just started walking with a map towards the cathedral. We knew our hotel was close to it but we didn't know how close everything really was. We walked ALL over the city very easily. The first thing we saw was the cathedral. we were all wearing shorts and tank tops so we had to improvise with our luggage to cover our shoulders and our knees to be allowed in. It's a gorgeous cathedral. We even got to go up on the roof and see the sprawling view of the city.
After the cathedral, we went on a hunt for our hotel. We ran into it just a few blocks from Cathedral... a very nice surprise. We got redressed for the afternoon and went out to see everything we could. We went to Gaudi's cathedral in progress the Sagrada Familia. It's insanely beautiful and strange. Construction started in 1882 and it's not done yet.
We sat for lunch near the beach and had sangria. The big thing we did the first night was went to the Magic fountains of Montjuic. We took the metro then we took the bus and followed the crowds of people and then we found it. Quite beautiful. The night was gorgeous, the breeze was pleasant, and the fountain was doing a different show every 30 minutes. It was so easy to just sit on the stairs and enjoy it. We got back to the hotel and crashed only to wake up far too soon for more of barcelona!
On day 2, we did an amazing amount of stuff. We went on a boat cruise, went to the Gaudi house, went to the park where the Gaudi museum is, climbed to the top of the city, walked La Rambla. Sunday was Emily's birthday and we walked through an antique market and she saw a box she liked, she wouldn't stop thinking about it. While we were on the boat cruise, Christina and I decided to get it for her so Christina distracted Emily and I bought it and carried it around in my purse all day. She kept talking about going back to get it and we had to think quick and make up reasons why she shouldn't go back at this point in time, that she could go back later. We gave it to her over a nice dinner and she was shocked. It was so fun. Then we went to a Flamenco show. I was dead tired by this point and I was struggling to stay awake but it was extremely enjoyable.
We swam a bit in the sea. It was washing our feet out from under us. We didn't have a whole lot of time because we had to get ready for the flamenco show and dinner but it was worth going for just a little while. Not like it did my white complexion any good... Lots of boobs on the beach...
A few days ago I had Emily come over and help me move furniture. I moved my bedroom to the room my office was and my office to the bedroom. we moved 3 of the closets around too. Now I can shut out all daylight for night shfit and I have already made the larger floor of the other room into a palate for scrapbooking supplies.
My cat is a horrible spider killer. It's in the 40's at night now and they must be taking refuge in my house. I walked around for awhile tonight with a swiffer and a shoe hunting for spiders. It started because I was closing windows and out of the corner of my eye, I saw this HUGE spider. The biggest spider I've seen yet actually.... ugh, it makes me shiver. It's that time of year I guess...
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