Let Your Colors Show: park guell

Hola Amigos y Mi Familia!
I hope everyone is doing great. I'm absolutely fabulous. I'm over half way done with my trip, and there's no way I'll be ready to get back home. No offense to any of you. I just feel like I haven't gotten in nearly enough culture or Spanish. I love it here. We keep going on such great adventures. I'll start where I left off before... Barcelona:
We started with a 5 am train ride on Saturday (yes 5 AM!!). We arrived in Barcelona around 9:30. What a crazy place. People were bustling all over, it feels like NYC big time! We headed to our hostel which was much nicer than I expected. It was actually really neat to stay there. We headed out around the Gothic Quarter to go to the Barcelona Cathedral (designed by my favorite architect, Antoni Gaudi). It's really pretty. After we lit some candles and said a few prayers, we headed to see la Sagrada Familia; one of the most impressive sights you'll ever see. It's also designed by Gaudi. It will be under construction for a long time because Gaudi died during its construction. We ate dinner at the marina for traditional Paella (oh my gosh, delicious!). AFter our yummy din din we headed "home" to get ready to go out. We never actually made it to a bar though because Barcelona won the cup that night and there were amazing parties in the streets (so much fun!). (As a side note, we also met this American on the train, he was so gorgeous, but turned out to be super annoying, is that the worst thing you've ever heard?)
Sunday was another fabulous adventure day, we went to Park Guell (another Gaudi design, perfect weekend for me!). Barcelona is Gaudi's city. If you ever go to Barcelona, this should be at the top of your list to see. Everything has mosaic tiles on it (miles of park!!). Words cannot even encompass this place. We walked around and just enjoyed the sites of Barcelona for a bit. While some people went to a bullfight (not my thing) we sat and people watched then danced with an old man to the Peruvian flute band. It was so fun. We ended up tooling around too long and had to run through the streets and metros of Barcelona to get to our train on time. We had a whopper of a weekend that didn't end until about 1:30 Monday morning.

This week, we had our first two quizzes (91 and 99, woo hoo!). We've also gone a few "expeditions" of sorts. We went to get Churros and chocolate (yum), the bullfighting museum (enough bullfight for me), a Flamenco show (wow is all I can say!), we climbed to the highest point in Valencia (a tower at the Cathedral), and we went to a really cool museum about enlightenment and thought. Today we went Xativa, a town with castles and mountains. We hiked up to the castle (and when I say hike, I mean HIKE!). It was really worth it though because we got to see a beautiful view. I won't need any extra work after that one. It was a really fun day though, we laughed the whole time. I really got lucky because we really get along well. I'll go ahead and put up some pictures here and maybe a few on Facebook. (I"d like to give a shoutout to my Mrs. Boss, you know who you are. I love you so!)