Barcelona, Ole!

Hola!

Lo siento! I'm sorry!!! You guys... if any of you are still following this... those last posts were FAR too long!!!! Can you tell I have a lot of free time on my hands since I have gotten back???

I will make Barcelona short and sweet! The best way to sum it up is in these simple words: sangria, paella, Antoni Gaudi ya la playa!

A starbucks in Barcelona had a balcony as their lobby with a view of the port! We relaxed here for at least an hour.

This is the huge Farmer's Market off of La Ramba full of fruit smoothies what were so good!

Parc Guell by artist Antoni Guadi. It's by far the most interesting park I have ever been to. Usually I use the work "interesting" as a bad thing, but this time I mean it as a good thing... fyi, for those who know my vocabulary...

Kailey and I bought tickets to a Flamenco show. I love it! I love live dancing, especially when it is a World Dance. I think the specifications of costumes and music is so interesting.

Restaurant Egipte: We had every dinner here. It had the best veggie paella and Daniel, our server was so nice! Our last two nights they treated us to Champagne. They all recognized us by night 2.

Kailey was hoping he would leave the whole bottle...

The metro in Spain was sooo nice! It was newer and had AC unlike the one in Paris. It also was WAY easier to hop on without paying!!! We would always buy two tickets, but we would both squeeze through with one, and save the other ticket for the trip back. I remember watching people in Paris hop over the turnstiles and thinking "OMG, they are going to get caught." But by the time we got to Barcelona we realized we saw people skimping on the metro in every city, so we had to give it a try... And besides, we were really poor, lol.

The Magic Fountain= Every night, every half hour they have a water show complete with music that makes you forget about the one at The Bellagio in Vegas.

Kailey and I in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time. I forgot to bring my swimsuit that day, so I just went in in my dress.. I didn't want to miss the opportunity incase it didn't come again.

Sagrada Familia- an unfinished cathedral by Antoni Guadi... this was iiiiiiinteresting... it wasn't pretty, but it looked nothing like any of the thousands of other cathedrals we have seen. It's kind of weird. If you are in Barcelona you HAVE to go there.

Beach day numero dos.

La playa

Paella!!!

Sangria... they just don't make it like this in the states... Salute!

I hope you guys are still there... Hello?!?!? Anyone?!?!?!

I just wanted to thank all of you for encouraging me to continue writing in my blog. I'm sorry it took so long to finish it, but now it DONE!!!!!! I know Mim, Aunt Trish and Aunt Jodi are reading it in PA, my bestie Bailey in San Diego, Melissa, Tammy and Darlene in Long Beach, and that's just to name a few! And of course my fellow blogger & travel buddy who taught me how to blog: Calvin! This is the perfect scrapbook that I can look back to years to come and if it weren't for you guys I probably would have a lot less memories to hold on to... I have a really bad memory, seriously. When I started writing this I was mainly just wanting to tell you all about the food, but over time it turned into a way of keeping in touch with all of you at home, and now its memories that will last a life time, Merci! Grazie! Gracias!

Love,

Kristin