Beautiful Barcelona

Last week we went to Barcelona, Spain.  We found a great hostal for only 36 euros a night and it was super nice and it was in a great location.  The weather was perfect and all the tourist spots were not packed at all.  

When we arrived we thought we were in Scotland because the streets were packed with Scots chanting, drinking, and singing.  The next day they were playing the Barcelona team in soccer so everyone was getting ready for the big game.  20,000 Brits and Scots came down and they were super drunk all day, starting at 9:00 a.m. when we left our hostal!  They wore their jersey's for three days in row and every other word that came out of their mouth was the "f" bomb!

This a building by the famous 19th Century architect Gaudi.  His works are the most famous attractions in Barcelona.  


Enjoying some time at a lovely park.  

We went into several Cathedrals (the free ones :)
Here is Cody admiring the view from the top of this park that is on a mountain that overlooks the whole city.  


This is the Gaudi park.  He has a crazy style and this lizard is super famous and everyone was taking photos of it, so I had to also.
Posing on the mosaic benches.  

Cody is crazy good at reading maps and getting us around new cities.  He remembers a new route after taking it just one time (I still got lost on N. Main in Las Cruces!)  He did such a good job finding the right metros and walking us the through the city.  

Every city has to have their version Arc de Triomf and here is theirs.  

This is Gaudi's crazy masterpiece that isn't finished.  He started it in 1882 and they don't expect completion for at least another 25 years.  The lighter part on the left is the newer portion of the building.  It's gonna be crazy when it's finished!

So blogger, has a new format (for Macs its new I guess) and let you do more stuff with font, colors, paragraph, and video now.  So I am pretty excited about the possibilities.  Although with the naked eye it may seem as though this post looks like every other one...it's different OKAY!  :)