I realize that it is a little sad that i am just finishing up my Barcelona posts 7 days before we leave for Italy, but some of us are super busy (aka watching 6 Feet Under episodes after work when I should be blogging).

Tuesday we met up with John and Joanne again and decided to take another crack at the Picasso museum.

John learns the museum is open!

It was pretty fantastic; everything divided up into phases and periods of his life. I personally was also quite glad to be in out of the rain because for the 2nd day in a row sunny Barcelona was almost a rain out! After the museum, we decided to head over to a lovely vegetarian restaurant I had chosen for us only to discover that, of course, it was closed. I swear I have a special talent for finding great places and going to them the one day they are closed… We found our way to an Italian restaurant and had another 2 hours chat session. We used to go to John and Joanne’s almost every weekend for dinner and Pinochle or other games, so just hanging out talking was a great flashback to those times.

I think we wore the old guys out, because we decided to part ways for the afternoon – Michael and I wanted to see the museum of contemporary art and they want to do a hop on tour. We headed to the museum only to find that it was, well… you know the routine…. So I begged Michael to take me back to La Boqueria for more juices. To our pure delight, all the juices were half off!!! Between the two of us, we had 5 juices, and made plans to come back the next day to try even more. As you can probably guess, the market was closed the next day.

We spent the evening on Las Ramblas, window  shopping and people watching, and we were still so full from the juice  that we skipped dinner, had we tried to go out the resturant would have been closed anyway, so really we were just cutting out steps.

We did manage to see the Contemporary Art museum on Wednesday (which was free due to the fact that it was the end of summer national holiday). They had a special area set up for kids to make their own art.

I wanted to make  macaroni dog house picture, but Michael said I am too old.

We wrapped up the day with a walk to the port, then headed out to the airport for the short trip home.

Goodbye Barcelona….