Barcelona - Day 3

Hello, its midnight in Barcelona and I´m just getting around to posting on my blog. Why you ask? Because the locals do not eat dinner until 9:00-11:00, and that means, we do not eat until really really late.

I realized that most of the pictures on the blog (perhaps all) are from morning till midday and none have shown what we do at night. So despite the title of this post, these first pictures are of our day 2 evening.

Prior to grabbing dinner we took some skyride on a glass gondola-type thingy. Amazing view, the pictures do not do it justice.


<---- here is Mandy and I enjoyin

g some Sangria out of some wacky long straws. GOOD TIMES? I think yes!

Anyway, after a late dinner we had a great night, sleeping for 11 hours, meaning we just made it up in time to catch breakfast. After getting ready we headed back to Sagrada Familia and caught the lift. The cost of the lift was 2.50 Euro per person but was well worth it.

Here is a picture of the stairs down from the top of the tower. If it looks crazy scary, its because it was, I was seriously a chicken because of the one hand rail and the long drop straight down. Mandy and Sarah were troopers though, and only laughed at me a little for being... well, me! In case you forget the second picture is of the Sagrada Familia from the outside. Mandy did a great job with this picture. The last picture is from one of the outcroppings in the tower. They were really neat and let you overlook the city.

After chilling on some random corner for lunch we headed to Gaudi´s Apartment to see how Barcelona´s most famous architect lived. Despite the crazy architecture, the inside was fairly normal. Here is a picture of some of the sculptures from the terrace. Sarah is skilled with the camera in my opinion. The second picture is from the top of the terrace. Thankfully, we found some crazy American Honeymooners that were on their last leg of a two month round-the-world trip that we felt safe letting hold our camera to take this wonderful pic.

After a nice day of not doing too much, we ALLOWED Mandy to pick the restaurant for dinner. She was set on going to this place we walked past the night before after wandering around for what seemed like hours, around dark corners, down dangerously long alleys (no kidding... is there and end to the the spooky long alleys that smell like cat Urine? Ok so maybe they didnt smell like cat urine, but they were ridiculous long).

Anyway, we traversed the small alleys and found our way back this cute place for dinner. As you may expect, it turned out to be the best meal we have had thus far. It seems, the less english the waitress speaks the better the food. We have a few good pictures of the Tapas (small appitizer like foods) and they are gorgeous, and taste great, but as I mentioned in my day 1 post, these pictures arent easy to load. Anyway, here is a picture of the restaurant. It was scrumptious.