BARCELONA!!!!

Well, we just got back from a 4 day trip to Barcelona, we went along with some friends of ours and their little boy who is 1 1/2 and we had a great time. Here are some photos of just a few of our adventures.

A fountain in a park near the Barcelona zoo.

Our dinner, at the restaurant "Asador", we ordered the sucking pig, and this what we got, the whole pig, it was good, Sergio even had a little taste of the brain, and he said it wasn't too bad.


One of the markets in Barcelona, Sergio was ordering some ham, which costs 59 Euros a Kg, but it was really good, very salty.



One of Gaudi's famous buildings.





Noah and his bull fighting hat!

Me, outside the Sagrada Familia, also one of Gaudi's projects, started in 1882 and it is still under construction today, it is supposed to be finished in 2025!

The Arco De Triumfo

Some of Abby's favorite things in Barcelona

• "the rocket" (it was a building shaped like a rocket, Torre Agbar

• "the bus"

• "the wallet" (abby bought a wallet that said Barcelona on it)

• "the castle" (it was really a church)

What Abby didn't like about Barcelona

• "the bedroom"
• "the pillow"
• "the food"
• "I didn't like the castle so much"

Some of Emma's favorite things about Barcelona

• "the market"
• "the hotel just not the room"
• "the busride"
• "walking around and seeing stuff"
• "like that little tower thing, that lights up, that's really cool"

Some things that Emma didn't like

• "our room"
• "I didn't like walking alot"
• "not really sleeping in my bed"
• "I wanted the weather to be hot"

These are the things that Noah liked

• "Emma"
• "me"
• "me"

What Noah didn't like about Barcelona

• "abby"
• "emma"
• "daddy"
• "mommy"

Some of my favorite things in Barcelona

• The buildings were amazing, some old, some newer, my favorite buildings were the ones designed by Gaudi.
• The people, they were so nice to us and to the kids, 2 different places gave chocolate to the kids. However, sometimes they were too nice, outside a Mcdonalds this old Lady, told me in Spanish that Noah should be sitting when eating ice cream, so she went and got him a spoon and napkin and sat noah down on the sidewalk to eat his icecream, even after I told her about a hundred times, "no, thats ok". Overall the people were great!
• the weather of course, 70 degrees and sunny, beautiful for November!
• Having a Starbucks every day was really a treat.
• Having the opprotunity to try new foods.
• The shopping, there were a ton of shops!
• The market was probably my favorite, very fresh fruits and vegetables, seafood, meat, it all look delicious, we tasted coconut, ham, apples and grapes and they were all very good.

Some things I didn't like about Barcelona

• Having to wake up at 3:30 in the morning to catch the flight to Barcelona (when you fly cheap this is the kind of tickets you get) Not so fun.
• the food was very unusual, stuff I would never have the opprotunity to try, I ate Octopus, not so good, and a sucking pig, overall I did not like the food, but it was fun to try new things.
• putting 5 people in a hotel with one queen size bed for three nights!!! I don't think I have to explain this one.

Overall, we had an awesome trip to Barcelona and I am so very thankful that I get the opprotunity to explore the world with my amazing family!

-Darcy