BARCA!!!

After my trip to Morocco, I came home for approx. 12 hours, but was then on a flight to Barcelona! This past week has been a whirlwind of emotions! In the past month, I have visited 3 different countries. While sitting on the plane to Barca, I was thinking about the fact that few hours ago I had been in AFRICA!!! I am truly blessed. I have always pictured going abroad, but today i realized it is happening. This is as real as it gets.

Anyways on to the fun stuff :)

Stephanie, Julie and I stayed in a hostel for the 3 nights we were in Barcelona. Before arriving, i was a bit nervous, because I have always thought that hostels were sketchy. I was prepared to sleep with my purse under my pajamas & have my luggage next to me in my bed. I was wrong. The hostel was clean, and there were lockers for our stuff to go in. I tend to overreact sometimes.

We all realized we were super hungry once we got into the city,

& at this point were craving some familiar food. Right before we got to the hostel we passed a pizza place that smelled delicious! So we checked in , ate, and then came back for a nap. We ended up wandering around the city looking at things the first night. We did happen to find espresso, gelato & McDonald's. Normally I'm not down for Ronald McDonald's happy place, but the Golden Arches reminded me of home &

it was a perfect 4 euro meal :)))

The second day consisted of clothes shopping, a chocolate factory, and the Picasso Museum. Seriously, chocolate and art, and I'm in my happy place. Picasso was one crazy man, but he was incredibly intelligent. To save some money, i cooked dinner for us in the hostel. Spaghetti, bread, corn and milk. It was great, and cost less than 10 euro for 4 people. We made friends with 2 girls from Lebanon and ended up going out to a tiny spanish bar with them. It was very cute & the bartender gave us a free drink because he said we brought business to his bar! Yay :)

The third day was my favorite by far. We slept in late, got ready and left the hostel for La Segrada Familia. The SF is a chapel/museum/nativity scene/work in progress. Antoni' Gaudi', the artist of this whole thing, never got to finish his work, sue to the fact that he was hit & killed by a tram. It is too hard to describe in words how i felt about being here. I am putting up the link for the website so yall can go look at it. Let me just say i am going to be visiting Spain once it gets finished. It is absolutely incredible.

http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/sf-eng/index.php

Add in some more Gaudi stuff, more gelato, a five euro skirt, people watching and i would say my trip to Barcelona was a success. x