So for those of you gagged at the cuteness of the title...I stick my tongue out at you :-P. For those of who awed, two thumbs up :-) haha
Nick came to visit!!!! I got to the airport like an hour and a half before his flight came in because I was too excited...haha :) After getting him checked into his hotel, I sadly had to go to class, but it was probably for the best because I'm pretty sure he would have fallen over from exhaustion haha.
That night was Laia's birthday!! We met her, Ana, Irene, Carla, and Irene at this cute little restaurant called La Flauta and had a fun time making nick try spanish foods. Quite entertaining :)
The next day was our Gaudi themed day. We went to Casa Milá (La Pedrera) and got to see all of the amazing rooftop structures he built for the Milá family. There's also a little Gaudi Museum in the house which shows details about how he designed all of his buildings and where he got his inspiration, so as a Gaudi fan, that was pretty cool! After that, we made the treck up to Parc Güell (and it is quite a treck) much to the protests of our aching feet. But alas, the beauty of the park and being able to show Nick my favorite place ever in the world superseded mundane foot pains haha. We walked around and explored parts of the park that I had actually never been to, which was really cool! That night we went to a nice Italian restaurant and celebrated our anniversary :)
Saturday we went to Montjuic, a beautiful mountain with a fortress on top that has beautiful views of the city. We walked around there for a while taking lots of pictures (much to his dismay haha) and enjoying the scenery. Then we took the gondola down and headed to La Rambla where we made fun of the crazy street performers and walked around La Boqueria too! We walked down to the beach and grabbed some lunch on the boardwalk overlooking the ocean; it was a GORGEOUS day! The weather the entire time he was here was INSANE. A few days before, it had been freezing (I was wearing my antarctica mittens) and then he gets here and it's 70 and I'm wearing a tank top on the beach. insane.
THE POPE CAME SUNDAY! It was crazy. The entire city shut down and you couldn't even get on some metro stops because of his visit. We had decided to go to Barrio Gotico that day, but, as always, I forgot that Sundays here are barren wastelands because everyone just closes up shop and doesn't work...soo that made shopping in Barrio Gotico a bit difficult for us, but we made the best of it and enjoyed the day. We met Almudena for coffee and then had a truly american dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Let me tell you, I needed a true burger and fries like you wouldn't believe. Needless to say, this trip wasn't the best for my diet...but oh well, it was delicious :-)
Monday we went back to look for some gifts in Barrio Gotico and also went and visited the outside of Sagrada Familia. We would have gone in, but the line wrapped around the block, and there was NO way we were doing that...but that's cool! I had class for a bit but then we met Laia and Eduard to go KARTING! It was crazy, you get dressed up in these cool suits and helmets and drive around in this tiny car around this winding track - it was awesome haha. Then we had an amazing dinner, care of Angeles, and stuffed ourselves silly until we basically couldn't move.
Tuesday I was a mess and all but held on to his ankles so he wouldn't leave. But all good things must come to an end (oh yeah, and we both have classes...) soooo I had to let him get on the plane against my better judgement.
And so I went back to my daily life here in Barcelona, writing papers about Spanish philosophy and learning about Spanish parliament, all the while wishing I had a time machine to go back just a few days...
yeah I see all you non-romantics rollin' your eyes. :-P haha
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