This day began with a very yummy delicious breakfast consisting of eggs, bacon, cereal, fruit, chocolate croissants and more! Then we headed to our bus for a morning group tour of Barcelona. We first went to Parc Guell. This is a park that was built by Gaudi. This place reminded us of a place right out of a Dr. Seuss book. The architecture of this place was self-contained community with houses, schools and shops. It has colorful designed mosaics and paths.
Then we drove around and saw some other buildings and fountains before arriving at the La Sagrada Familia. The design came from Antoni Gaudi, the same man who designed the park. This is a church that is still in the process of being built. It began in 1882 and it will be complete in 2020.
Then we headed to the Olympic Stadium, which hosted the 1992 Olympics. The stadiums were huge. They were very close to the water, and were on top of Montjuic hill. This is where we ended the bus tour and took tons of pictures that over look the park, ocean, and stadiums.
After the tour ended we head to Las Ramblas and walked down the mile long shopping strip and did some basic souvenirs shopping. We stopped at this market, which is down an alley and there were over 50 different markets: fruits, vegetables, chocolates, candies, meat, fish, ice cream, flowers, etc. Chrissy and I bought some gelato which was Kinder flavored. Kinder is a type of German chocolate, which is amazing! The ice cream was delicious!!! Once we finished our ice cream we continued to walk down Las Ramblas. We ended at the end the street in front of a huge sculptures with giant lions surrounding it; so we stopped for some basic touristy pictures.
Then we continued walking and headed to the Barri Gotic which is an area known for food and shopping. We wondered into this area and took many pictures of churches and buildings. We took pictures of the cathedral, which was built on the top of the 11th century ruins of a Romanesque church. Then it was time to head back to the hotel so we could get ready for our Farewell dinner and the Flamenco show we had planned for after.
After some quick showers and getting all dressed up we were ready. The Farewell Dinner was planned for 8 PM and was at a restaurant on the ocean. We were all so excited! We headed outside to wait for the bus.
We waited, waited, waited, and waited till about 8:30 when our tour director called the bus company to ask where the bus was. Apparently they didn’t know they were suppose to pick us up, so they said they would send a bus by shortly. So we continued to wait and took some fun pictures with friends and some fun poses. It was around 9 when we saw a bus come speeding up…..however something seemed different. When the bus stopped we relized what was wrong…… it was a small bus.
This bus held 24 people…….and there were 51 of us. Yea…… everyone was laughing because we had no idea what was going on. The bus driver looked confused, the tour director was mad, and we were all in shock.
We were all tired and hungry. After much confusion and the use of one of our group members translating between the bus driver and the director… we all piled into the tiny bus. Yes all of us. Everyone had someone on their lap. We were all crammed into the bus and had to close the blinds in the bus to avoid being pulled over by the police. We had to avoid the police so it took us three times longer to get to dinner than it should have been.
Once we got to the restaurant we all got out and it looked as if we were all getting out of a clown car.
For dinner we had an appetizer of tapas (which was bread with a type of tomato basil topping), then we had a cold pasta which oil, tomatoes, and mushrooms. Then main dish was a beef steak with gravy, and vegetables, and for dessert we had Crème Brule. Our favorite part about dinner was the free refills of drinks and lots of ice. Dinner was a lot of fun because we were reminiscing about the trip, and were talking about future adventures we would like to all take together.
After dinner we headed back to the hotel for some sleep!
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