Lost in Barcelona - a.k.a. Hannah's Tour of Barcelona

After four days in Barcelona, we felt like we did everything possible...and walked everywhere possible. Our legs were exhausted by the end of each day. We went to the Block of Discord and Casa Mila (houses designed by Gaudi), to the Chocolate Museum (Hannah especially loved that!), to the Cathedral of Barcelona (pictured above), and to the Barcelona City Museum (basically Roman ruins underneath the Royal Palace). We also went to the Montjuic, or "Mountain of the Jews". On top of the mountain, was a wonderful castle and we could see all of Barcelona and the harbor around us. That night, we went to a Magic Fountain show - where the water lit up to music and looked awesome.

Our favorite of all the sights was the Sagrada Familia. It is a huge church designed by Gaudi before he died, but construction is still going on and won't finish until the middle of the century. It had a beautiful inside with stained glass windows and a choir loft that held up to 1,000 members! The architecture of the front and back entrance illustrated the nativity scene and life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ. It was really amazing.
Aside from all the sites we saw, we didn't really love the culture of the city. It was extremely crowded, the most common place to be pick-pocketed/scammed (which we weren't), and the city as a whole was very spread out.

We did manage to get extremely lost every day...and it was not ALWAYS Hannah's fault, but maybe more often than not. :) It allowed us to see more of the city and help us work on showing patience with one another. I guess God wants us to work on patience a lot.

Things we hope to forget from Barcelona...
-A man in a thong with only a short, pink, transparent tutu to cover it.
-A female backpacker wearing only a t-shirt, no underwear and no bottoms at all. Luckily, her backpack managed to cover some of what we didn't want to see.
-Men selling annoying squeakers that you put in your mouth.
-Getting yelled at for not ordering dinner when we sat down at a restaurant for drinks at 11PM. Dinner is apparently served through midnight.
-Women who felt that tops were optional, whether at the beach or not.

All in all, we are happy we visited Barcelona but we are excited to be safely in London now. We'll spend the next few days here and then go to Birmingham for one night and Oxford to visit Hannah's parents.

We miss everyone and love you and your comments!