Barcelona: 30 de septiembre - 3 de octubre

A few weekends ago I went to Barcelona with a couple of friends. We saw some cool places, but I think my favorite parts of the trip were the random little things that we saw/that happened to us..like one night, we were walking back to our hostel, and we saw these four guys doing pretty sweet gymnastic stunts in the street. There was a crowd of people around them and we decided to stop and watch. Well, one of the guys took me and my two friends from the crowd for one of his stunts! He had us stand in a line and told us he was going to jump over us. I mean, these guys were good gymnasts, impressive and all, but I was scared to death he wasn’t going to make it over. I was the last in the line of girls, and one of the other gymnasts said to me, "Hey, you’re kind of tall, let’s put you in the front, and..why don't all of you you tilt your heads a little to the side" (which of course made me completely at ease haha!). Thankfully, the guy made it completely over us, heads and all.

..A few photos from the trip...

Cathie, Diana y yo

Paella cocinada con tinta de calamar..rica
paella cooked with squid ink!..yummy

Un hombre en la calle haciendo y vendiendo…
Man in the street making and selling…

...estos. con latas
...these. with cans

Me encantan los mercados..
I love markets..

Ya soy adicta a estos zumos..vienen en todos los colores que puedes imaginar. Mi favorito= coco+mora.
Solamente 1 euro!

 Quickly became addicted to these fruit juice drinks that come in every color imaginable. My favorite was coconut+blackberry. Only one euro!

Yo, delante de La Sagrada Familia.
Me, in front of the Sacred Family church.

Crazy cool architecture

Parque Guell
Park Guell..looks like a real life gingerbread house

We decided to trek up to this monument with crosses up on the edge of Park Guell. We climbed and climbed, and when we neared the top, we started to hear music. It wasn’t peaceful, spiritual music, like you might expect near such a monument, rather loud, hard-core rock. When we finally reached the monument itself we saw the source of the music --a 40-something-year-old man with long hair, glasses in the shape of guitars, rocking out in a skin-tight leopard print outfit with his guitar and little amp. At first I was appalled, but this guy was so excited and happy that it couldn’t help but wear off on everyone who had trekked up that hill.

Park Guell..sweet mosaic wall

Monumento a Colón (muy alto)
 Christopher Columbus Monument (super tall)

burbujota!!
ginormous bubble!! One of the many people scattered throughout Park Guell trying to make a dime or two.

Parque Guell

Parque Guell