Babymoon in Barcelona - part 2

Continuing with our Spanish adventures.

One of the places we decided to visit was the Museum of Chocolate. The only reason CJ agreed to going there right now is because I have had a huge aversion to chocolate since the beginning of pregnancy. Under any other circumstances, a visit to that place would just be asking for trouble. I would have OD'd or gone nuts just from the smell... haha...

 This display case welcomes all guests as soon as you open the door...

 Your ticket is a bar of dark chocolate. Oh my!

 Check out some of the cool chocolate creations on display there.

Continuing with the foodie theme... we enjoyed fabulous local tapas and paellas a couple of times... CJ sampled local beers and delicious Sangria. We had a long discussion how this is NOT the cheap, cheesy wine which sorority girls used to get drunk on in college... It really is not.

Here is CJ's sangria and my bottle of water.. haha...

 At one of the places we ate, the owner brought out a couple of shots of some local liquor (can't remember the name) and CJ had to down both since he now drinks for two.

Several times we walked down the famous La Rambla, long pedestrian boulevard, which in nicer weather would have been full of musicians and street performers. But this time it was just multitudes of souvenir shops and tons of tourists. Still pretty cool.

And of course we had to visit the most famous landmark of the city, the Basilica La Sagrada Familia. It has been under construction since the late 1800s and it will not be completed until sometime in the 2030s... It is a huge structure, visible clearly from amongst the otherwise flat Barcelona landscape (look back at the previous Barcelona post how tall those towers are). It is different than anything you've seen before, ornate in a very peculiar modernist style and simply very impressive. Here are a few shots.
The sides with the spires are actually SIDES, not front or back, though you can get in through them. The front has not been constructed yet.

 That's when it all started...

 Look how ornate the ceilings are...

The pilars are humongous.

And the real crazy thing is that on that exact Sunday, the Pope was supposed to visit there later in the day for an anniversary of the Basilica's dedication. The church was already being prepped for that and pretty much right after we got in all the tourist lines got shut down and that was the end of visits for the day. We were so lucky we got in!!!

And of course we had to talke a walk on the beach... When I was planning this trip I pictures us sitting on the beach in the sun during the day, but since we had crappy weather most of the time it did not work out exactly that way. Still we had to go touch the Mediterranean.

It was a great trip despite the rainy parts. I would defintely recommend everyone visit Barcelona for the great sights, great fod and great, fun times.