Barcelona July 16, 2006

Hi everyone we made it to Barcelona yesterday. Although once again our luggage did not. Same as last year but this time we were more prepared. At least we had one bag with a few changes of clothes and our toiletries and the bag arrived tonight so we are all set. We arrived early Saturday morning and the hotel didn't have our room ready yet so we farted around until we nearly found a park bench to sleep on. Its very humid and hot here. Wouldn't you know it were here when Spain is having a heat wave, and if you call it a heat wave in spain you know it's hot. Today was about 95 degrees and 70% humidity. We visited the Picasso museum where the largest collection of Picasso's is housed in Spain. It was amazing to see his progression and that he painted "normal" stuff at one point in his life. Anneka took a siesta in the afternoon while Chris did what he does best and wandered around aimlessly, taking wall art pictures. Breakfast was at McDonalds but since they don't have breakfast foods that meant a big mac was in order. Anneka says it even though it was at 11:30am it still qualified as breakfast since it was the first meal of the day. Tonight we wandered over to Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Cathedral and took some pictures. It's basically looks likes it made out of ice cream that is melting slowly. Were surprised someone at the planning commission hasn't said "hurry up" as it's had cranes up since the 1920's. Casa Batllo is just around the block from our hotel and it's one crazy piece of architecture. What would you think if your architect showed up and wanted to build you a house in the form of a dragon. What does that say about his patron, they actually let him... They stay up till all hours of the night here. We had dinner at 11:00pm and our restaurant was packed. Tapas seem like a good idea but they are mostly seafood so we haven't had too many but tonight tried some potatoes, chicken and steak. The steak tapas were good once we picked the blood sausage out of the center. Tomorrow we are going to Mont Juic, home of the 1992 summer Olympics. Attached are a few pictures amoung them Chris trying to dance the local "Sardana". He got one step into it then got lost. There is also a picture of the Ramblas. A big pedestrian friendly thouroghfare full of tacky trinket shops and weird street performers. Well it's 2:00 am and time to go to bed.