Barcelona, Spain

It was great to be in Spain where we could speak the language. We were a little confused at first, because everything looked like it was written in Spanish and French. Why would there be French everywhere? Well, we found out that it wasn't French but it was Catalan. I had always thought that Catalan is like Spanish, but it's not. We first went to the Castel de Montjuic. On our way there it started to rain, and we were stuck without a jacket or an umbrella. After walking clear around the castle, we finally found the entrance and went to the souvenir shop and bought an umbrella. We decided that would be our souvenir from Spain. There was a military museum in the castle. We weren't going to go because we didn't think it would be worth the 3 euro each it cost to go in. While we were walking around the castle, we found a door open, so we walked in and lo and behold, we were in the museum. So we saw part of the museum without paying. I'm glad we didn't pay. It was cool, but not worth 3 euro. After we went to the museum, we headed over to the Sagrada Familia church. The church has been under construction for over 100 years and it still isn't finished. It is leaning to the front a little bit and part of it looks really new and part of it looks old. It has statues from the life of Christ all over it. It is a cool looking building. From a distance and from a certain angle it kind of looks like the Salk Lake Temple because it has the six spires like the temple. After that we went to a Le Parc Gruell. It is a park that was designed by the artist Gruell that was never finished. It is a pretty cool park. there are buildings that look like gingerbread houses there. We didn't have to be back to the cruise ship until fairly late so we headed back to by where the castle was to see some fountains. When we got there the fountains weren't on. You could tell that they would have looked really pretty when they were on. We really enjoyed Barcelona a lot. It was a really pretty city. When we got on the boat, we saw a show of Flamenco Dancers. That was pretty neat watching that.