Barcelona Day #1

Columbus Pointing Toward The Mediterranean

Touching The Water Of The Mediterranean Sea

Gaudi House

Hola (now I have to switch to Spanish instead of French)!!!  Today we arrived in Barcelona, Spain!!!  This city reminds me of New York City, but Barcelona's architecture is more elegant than New York City.  We left Narbonne, France this morning at 9:00 am and we had an approximately three hour ride to Spain.  Needless to say, I spent almost all of the trip sleeping and I missed going across the border into Spain.  For some reason, every time I get on the bus, I fall immediately asleep.  Anyways, we arrived at our hostel in Barcelona around 12:30 pm.  We had lunch at this buffet at 1:00pm and we had the afternoon to do whatever we wanted.  Jen, Alicia, Katie, Morgan, and I went shopping in some of the stores that were close to the hostel we were staying at.  At 4:30pm we all met to go to the Gaudi House.  This house was designed by a famous Spanish architect named Gaudi.  After visiting the house, we had more free time.  Brady, Jen, Alicia, Morgan, Katie, and I went to go see the Mediterranean Sea.  In order to get to the Mediterranean Sea, we had to use the Barcelona Metro System.  It was just like using the subway system in NYC, except everything is in Spanish instead of English.  When we got to the Mediterranean, it did not look as clear as it does in pictures, since today was rainy and we went there towards evening time.  However, on Saturday we plan on going to the beach when the weather should be nicer.  After visiting the Mediterranean for the first time in all of our lives, we took the metro back to go to dinner.  We went to a place called "Tapa Tapa".  At dinner we ordered a pitcher of Sangria!!!  It was delicious!!!!  There is no better place to get Sangria than Spain!  After dinner, we came back to the hostel and uploaded pictures on our computers.

Tomorrow, we have to get up early and get ourselves to Sagrada Familia, which is this massive cathedral that has been under construction since the 1800's.  It looks spectacular in pictures, so I'm very excited to see it!  We are also visiting the Picasso museum tomorrow.  Tomorrow should be a very busy day!!!