Gaudi had a life-long fear of tram cars...

The last city on my European adventure was Barcelona. I would say that I loved the city.
On the first day we visited the Picasso Museum, which was great...and the Chocolate Museum, where Alli and I drank liquid chocolate bars.
The one thing that I would have changed would have been the weather...it rained quite a bit and it was colder than I had expected, but the city was vibrant, interesting and diverse. I enjoyed walking around the pedestrian streets and seeing the fabulous and bizarre architecture of Gaudi's city.
One of the first great things that we did was we took a tour of the Palau de Musica Catalina. This concert hall was stunningly beautiful on the inside. The architect designed each of the many sculptures on the walls and the stained glass. I couldn't stop looking at the "sun" of the room which was the stained glass sky light in the center, the orange and yellow glass bent in an upside-down bell shape over the audience and I can just imagine what that must look like on a very sunny day of when they use electricity to light it at night. I liked that tour very much.
We also took cable cars along the coast to view the city from above, which was nice. Once again, the weather could have been better, but the fog over the mountains created cool effects and the pictures came out well.
I loved the Park Guell, which was the park that Gaudi designed for his friend...everything in the park is colorful, vibrant, and interesting to look at. I loved seeing the city from this park. Off in the distance we saw what we thought was a creepy old castle but we later found out that it was an amusement park, which is less cool, so we didn't go to see it.
We were reading about Gaudi and his work while we sat in the park waiting for it to get dark and we found out that Gaudi was killed by a tram car. The next day we took a gothic tour in which we found out that Gaudi had a life-long fear of tram cars...which is horribly ironic.
We took a gothic tour the next day which was alright and the we signed up to take a Spanish cooking class the following day.
We met up with Scott's friend from Budapest, Salma, who lives in Barcelona. She was great and she took us to this wax museum/bar/jungle where we had sangria and talked for a while. It was a really fun night.
The next day, which was our last day, went to various Gaudi projects. We saw three that were particularly impressive. The Sagrada Familia (Gaudi's unfinished temple) which was mesmerizing. It is enormous and so so so unique. It was unlike anything I have ever seen and I love that.
I also loved his Casa Mila and Casa Batlla. After we saw those sights, we went to the outdoor market for some fresh fruit etc and then made our way to the cooking class.
We made sangria and tapas while the instructor explained the technique of cooking paella. It was good and interesting.
So early today I left Barcelona and now I'm here in New York again, more or less unpacked and I am happy that I already got to see Jeanette and her boyfriend Brad, Carly and Laura.
Now I'm going to go to sleep because to me it feels like 6 AM and I have been awake for 24 hours, eek.
It's nice to be home <3
Ciao.

PS...I don't really know what I'm going to write about in this blog now...and it seems to need a new title.