Week with Mommy and Freddy - Part 2

Monday we found our way to Montjuic, where the 1992 Olympic Games were held. Again, it was a nice day and we walked around for hours.  First, we stopped at Las Arenas which is an old bull fighting area.  They shut it down during the 1990s and now it's a shopping center.  We went to the top where we had a panoramic view of the city.  It was pretty! We could see really far to the mountains and to Montjuic where we were headed.  We made a minor pit stop inside where we ended up getting fishy foot massages! Little tiny fish bite at your feet and eat off all the dead skin leaving your feet feeling super smooth! It was so funny, we couldn't stop laughing! It was so ticklish having little fish bite at your feet! Definitely something I wanted to try while I was here so I was happy I got to do it!

Placa Espana

Las Arenas

View from the top

After our foot massage, we walked over to Montjuic.  Montjuic translates to "Jew Mountain" and was the site of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games.  There's a museum on top of the hill, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya that looks across the city. We took pretty pictures of the area.  If you walk around, you come to the arena where they hosted the Olympics.  In the main arena that is up there is where they hosted the opening ceremonies as well as other major events.  There is also the Sant Palau Jordi which is where they had some of the indoor events.  At night, they have fountain shows with lights and music.  We went during the day so I will have to go back and see the light show! I was excited to see Montjuic because I love the Olympics and I had been wanting to go there for a long time.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Olympic Stadium

Later, we went back to my apartment to meet the rest of my roommates.  We all couldn't be happier because they brought us so many goodies! Mommy and Fred brought us oreos, peanut butter, cheezits, goldfish, ramen, reeses peanut butter cups and more! We went to heaven in that moment.  After a little while, we went to get some pizza for dinner and headed back.

On our last day together, we walked around the streets; a more relaxing day than the past.  We walked up and down Passeig de Gracia where all the fancy stores are and pretended that we could buy all the Chanel and Furla bags.  We got tapas for lunch and met up a few hours later for dinner.  We went to Cera 23.  We had tried to go there the night before but got there too late.  It was a good thing we came back because it was one of the best meals I've had in Barcelona! They are famous for their blackberry mojitos so we had to try it. No wonder they are famous for it because they were amazing! One of the best drinks I've ever had.  For dinner I had seared tuna, something I had been craving for so long! Cera 23 was a great last night dinner; a great way to end a amazing week with Mommy and Freddy!

Park Güell

Hola,

Thank goodness for Friday's off so I have time to go explore the amazing city I'm in! Today after getting a late start, we found our way to Park Guell, a beautiful park filled with flowers and architecture by Gaudi.  I can honestly say it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.  There were so many mosaics, huge intricately designed buildings that look different than any other buildings.  What was the most amazing thing is that it was built during the early 1900s and they didn't have the kind of technology that we have now today to design and execute these complex places.  I think that is what is most amazing about these places - we don't need crazy technology to build beautiful things that last hundreds of years.

(In between these posts, I got hungry and went to KFC for late night gross greasy food.  FYI, not as good as in the states.)

After walking around the beautiful park, we went to an awesome Mexican restaurant Rosa Negra.  It was so good and I don't know if it was because we were so hungry or it really was good.  I had a chicken burrito and we all shared chips and guacamole.  Rosa Negra could have given Chipotle a run for its money, which is saying a lot.  We devoured the food.

Last night (Thursday, Jan. 17), we went to a fun tiny bar called Chupitos, which literally means shots. They have hundreds of shots there all for 2 euros each! So much cheaper than other places we've been to.  They're not normal shots, a lot of them are on fire or you drink them with candy! One that we all tried was called the Boy Scout where the light the table on fire a little, you roast a marshmallow, take the drink and eat! 

Besos! xoxo