More Barcelona

Saturday June 9 - We got up at 930 to eat breakfast in our hotel and started our bus tour at 10 with tour tour guide. We drove all through the city seeing and hearing about all of the different areas and important things. We stopped at a park designed by Gaudi that was originally supposed to be a neighborhood. Nobody invested in it so it became a park. It is on a hill that overlooks the city so the view was beautiful. The main entrance had two buildings that were designed to be the guards house and a welcoming house. They were designed like gingerbread houses. One had a cross on it and the other a mushroom which represented the battle between good and evil. The cross was higher symbolizing good overcoming evil. The roads are seperate from the people so there a lot of bridges. Below we are under a bridge.

 Genna, Sam and I with the main entrance behind us.

 There were lots of people playing music in the garden. Some of them were really good.

We continued our tour through Barcelona. We went by the port and up through the Olympic Village. The olympics were held in Barcelona in 1992 and so is a whole are of the city that is that. Here are some photos of the view!

 Sending some alpha love to my wonderful turtle family! There were so many cute Turtle souvenirs in Barcelona!

After touring the city we shopped around an area called Las Ramblas which is full of people and shops.  We had dinner at a nice spanish restaurant. After dinner we went to a bar called Dow Jones. This bar is operated like the stock market. The proces change depending on the demand of certain drinks. So if a lot of people buy the same drink the price went up. Every 45 min it would crash so the prices would be at their lowest point again. There were a lot of Americans there so it was fun to interact with them and hear about their travels. It is amazing how easily we can hear when someone else can speak english. 

Sunday June 10 - We took a tour of the oler part of Barcelona on sunday. There are a lot of gorgeous churches in the city. We were not allowed in to see them because we were wearing shorts. They do not mess around about this either. There were security at every entrance and they would just turn you around if you were not dressed properly. We headed home to Valencia in the afternoon, another long hot bus ride.

It was a very fun weekend overall. The city was beautiful and full of cool architecture. The city was way more touristy than Valencia which was annoying because immediately upon entering a store we would get Hello and not Hola. This did not help us to use our spanish. But I loved Barcelona!