Thursday, March 13, 2008

"Top of the World, looking down on creation..."

I'm still computer-less. My dad sent me one that was lying around Jayco last week. But this time he decided to mark it as $1000 value instead of $500, thinking that they would be extra careful with it. Well, that also means it became a customs issue. So it's been stuck in customs since last Friday. Sweet. That's why I haven't blogged because I had to wait until I had time to make it to our schools computer lab. Who knows if I'll ever have a computer while I'm over here.

So last weekend I was in Barcelona. It was a fun and productive weekend. On Friday night my roomies and I decided to make "family dinner" as we like to call it. I was the main chef and made the main course. I made pasta with tomatoes, onions, green olives cooked in white wine for the sauce. Its delicious. You should try it! We also had brochette and salad and then gillato for dessert. It was so good. After dinner we went to the Ice BARcelona. Its like the ice bar that we went to in Australia. It was a pretty good time but since I had already been to one it wasn't that exciting.

Saturday we all actually got up early (Your mouth just hit the floor, I know.) and caught the train to Montserrat. Montserrat is a monastery on top of a mountain about an hour outside of Barcelona. When you are up there you can basically see all of Spain - or at least that's what if felt like. The weather was perfect for a hike in the mountains - yes I know, your mouth probably hit the floor again with the word hike and yes I did hike a mountain and I enjoyed it. We just started walking on one of the trails and we ended up hiking for about three hours. It was gorgeous. The sky was so clear that we could see all the way to the Pyrenees Mountains. It was incredible. We stopped for lunch about half way through and ate the food we had packed. Then on the way back down I fell. Yes, Miss Graceful fell. And I am still sore from it! I have a huge, dark bruise on the side of my left thigh and I still can't sleep on that side at night. We left around 4 and we were all exhausted! I came back to the apartment and passed out for about three hours. It was glorious.

Sunday some of my roomies and I walked to La Sagrada Familia. Its one of the biggest attractions in Barcelona and I hadn't seen it yet....! It is a Guadi (The architect that is basically responsible for most of the city of Barcelona) cathedral that is still not done after more than hundred years because Gaudi died while in the process of building it and so the people working on it now are trying to figure out where he was going with his crazy designs. Its pretty amazing.

This week has been pretty low key other than the fact that I have a Spanish mid-term in about an hour. (Yes I should be studying right now, but who studies in Barcelona?!)

Next week is spring break! YAY! So tomorrow morning I'm leaving for Vienna. We are spending a day and a half in Vienna, a day and a half in Budapest and three days in Prague! I'm sooo excited! I feel like these cities are cities I probably wouldn't have traveled to coming from the U.S. and only since I'm here in Europe am I going. It should be a really good time! Then I come back to Barcelona on Thursday because my parents are coming! And I'm super excited about that too! Who knew that I would be so excited to see them?! (Just kidding mom, you know I love you!) I have a full four days planned out for them so they better be ready to live like I've been living.

Anyways, I'll try to blog some over spring break as long as the hostals we are staying in have computers, which many times they do. I should go study a little for my Spanish mid-term so I can at least pull a C. (Over achiever, I know.)

1 comment:

Alli said...

Anytime you say where you have visited I always "wikipedia it" to check it out...and I must say, I am most impressed with the La Sagrada Familia. Looks absolutely stunning!! Do you know what it is made out of? stone?

I wish I could come visit. Maybe I'll skip school and come with your parents. ha.