What I Did on My Barcelona Vacation…
Okay so obviously, Michael has been kicking my butt in the excellent postings category (as well as putting all the photos of Barcelona on Flickr), so I will complete the boring old itinerary of the trip posting. Sigh…
Sunday morning we got up early (at least vacation early) and had the second B in B&B. Then we headed out to see the city. It was a perfect day and we took the subway to the National Art Museum of Catalonia, which is situated on the Montijuic hill. There was a MASS of people outside the subway station and we eventually figured out that they were just finishing a marathon.It was sweaty and smelly, so we made our way through as quickly as possible!
Michael at the bottom of the staircase waterfall in front of the museum getting electrocuted.
The Museum was nice, but if I have to see one more piece of Baroque / Renaissance / etc art I am going to punch someone. I definitely appreciate that style of art, but it just doesn’t do it for me. We’ve seen a half dozen museums dedicated to 500 year old portraits of somebody’s cousin and the Glorious Madonna, and I think I’ve seen enough. Having said this, there are always one or two surprises at each museum, where despite the fact that they too are 500 year old portraits of somebody’s cousin and the Glorious Madonna, they are somehow different and exciting, so we’ll probably keep going to them!
After the museum, we headed over to the ‘92 Olympic Stadium. Michael going for the gold in lounging around:
We had a nice walk around the park and ended up at the Miro Museum. Miro is one of my favorite artists. THIS was a museum I can get behind!!! They had tons of Miro (obviously) but also quite a few Calder sculptures, including an amazing fountain that used mercury instead of water. You can see pictures of it here. They also had an exhibit put on by other artists who wanted to pay homage to Miro using art as their medium. It was really cool.
Michael was more interested in the Lego that the art.
After this we continued on to the Parc Guell. Meh… for all the hype around it, it wasn’t that great. I feel like we must have missed something because everyone says it is just the greatest… Gaudi actually designed the park, and for all his cool architecture, the park was peaceful and pretty but nothing spectacular.
After the park, Michael started staggering around saying how tired he was. Since he hadn’t slept in about 36 hours, I decided to let him have a little siesta back at the B&B. I MIGHT have had a small siesta myself… can’t really remember. When he/we got up we headed back over to Montjuic park to see the Magic Fountain, which is a spectacular display of colour, light, motion, music and water acrobatics. It took only 1 year (and 3000 workers) to build this project for the 1929 Great Universal Exhibition. Definitely worth watching.
After the water show, we were starving. I had very carefully written down directions from our hotel to a vegetarian restaurant we wanted to try. I even double checked how to get there because of my infamy with getting lost. We still go lost. But it wasn’t my fault!!! I think they changed the streets around… Michael saved the day and found a city map by the metro station and we had a lovely dinner.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday installments still to come!!!
No commentsJenni Likes To Eat
Someone (Kristin(Jenni’s sister)), pointed out that Jennifer likes to eat a lot as witnessed by many photos that seem to be taken with her happy or smiling while eating. In lieu of that knowledge, I decided to follow her around for a few hours and photograph what she consumed. Below is what I came up with.
Jenni likes tree berries.
Jenni likes bark.
Jenni likes bush berries.
Jenni likes paper.
Jenni likes burritos.
