Lady in Spain: Barcelona.. one month later.

Alright, so I am wayyyy behind on this blogging thing. Once you get a few days behind though then it just keeps adding and all of the sudden it has been a month. And it is such a daunting task to try to catch up! So I'm just going to take baby steps and start with Barcelona (weekend of Feb 26 to 28 .. This is the only trip that was included in our program fee and we stayed in a 4 star hotel (woohoo! nice change from our little dorm room). We also had a nice change in food from the dorms. Once we got there we ate at FresCo an Italian buffet with a delicious salad bar with fresh vegetables, etc. A hot commodity for us who eat patatas and bread with every meal. That night we went out for chupitos (spanish for shots) at a place called Chupitos. This little nook is one of the hot spots in Barcelona and it was packed! It was really fun though and we got all sorts of cool shots, for example, one called a 'boyscout', where they give you a marshmallow and light your shot on fire so you can roast it. After that we headed to a popular club called 'Razmataz'. All in all it was a great first day. The next day we proceeded to wake up and get on the bus for a 4 hour tour of the city. It sounds awful but it was actually not that bad. We passed alot of Antonio Gaudi's buildings and then headed up to Park Gruel (a park Gaudi made for the Gruel family.) This park was crazy. It looked straight out of a Dr. Seuss book with a bunch of mosaic and funky caves, etc. It also had a great view of the city. After the bus tour we went for a LONG walk down to the Picasso Museum which was close to the ocean. It was really fun though to walk down the streets. We saw a bunch of cool street venders and markets along the way. Finally we made it to the museum, which is hidden back in a little alley, not where we would have suspected it would be. It was really interesting though and we spent a good bit of time there. Afterward, we headed back up to our hotel and stopped in some stores where I found a perfect leather jacket. It was actually one that I had been looking at in a store in Valencia, Bershka, which, along with H&M and Zara, is a very popular Spanish store. I ended up getting it and I absolutely love it. GREAT purchase. That night I believe we went down to a bar called Shoko because my friend, Liza, had free entrance tickets. That is one thing that I really hate about clubs.. 15 euro entrance fees, then 12 euro drinks makes for an expensive night. Hence, I haven't really been 'clubbing' too much. The next morning, Gracer and I grabbed some Subway then hopped on the bus for a lovely ride home along the Spanish coastline.

Here are some pics I took along the way..