We took a 4 day long trip to Spain to celebrate the upcoming arrival of baby Kate. Seems like these days you can't have a baby without going on a Babymoon...
Geneva has fantastic air connections with Barcelona, not only timing wise but also money wise. Our two round trip tickets cost $190. Amazing! And 4 nights at a 4 star hotel within walking distance of the beach was $390. Amazing!!
The weather was iffy. Forecast said rain all weekend, and it did rain every day BUT only in the evenings when we were already done with sightseeing, so really, it worked out really well.
The city is full of modernist architecture and landmarks. Many of them creations of Antonio Gaudi, a very famous early 20th centuty architect and sculptor.
We climbed up a million stairs and escalators to Park Guell, one of Gaudi's creations. You get super views of the city from there...
How about this belly...
From there, you can see the Sagrada Familia, another Gaudi creation, and probably most famous attraction in Barcelona. More about that later.
We also saw a residential building designed by Gaudi, called La Pedrera. It was commissioned by a rich Barcelona woman and when it was built the owner became the laughing stock of the city due to the building's peculiar shape. Of course now it makes all kinds of money as a Gaudi landmark... so who's laughing now...
We also went to the Montjuic hill to the National Art Museum of Catalunya...
(This is the view from the top of the stairs facing the opposite direction. Pretty awesome. And look at those clouds. Crazy weather followed us the entire time...)
...and to the Olympic Stadium which was the site of the 1992 Summer Olympics. It is shocking to see how small and old fashioned that place is. But we were surprised to find out that the original structure and sports fields date back to the 1920s and were refurbished for the 1992 Olympics.
We also went to see the Christopher Columbus monument in the Barcelona port. The statue marks the spot where Columbus landed after returning from his American discovery voyage. He is supposed to be pointing towards the new continent.
And here's CJ having some fun riding Columbus's lions.
We stumbled upon a really cool park, called Jardins de Joan Brossa which had this amazing mammoth statue!
Here's a cute family shot. Ps. my butt really does NOT stick out that far... I had both our phones in my back pocket... see how that bulge is kind of squared?...
to be continued...
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