One of the first stops my sister, my friend Traci and I made was to La Sagrada Familia. I had been once before at night, but had not had a chance to go inside. It´s amazing! Gaudi, the designer, had worked on it for about three decades before he died and knew it would take generations to complete. Some literature says it will be complete in 2020, but others say 2030!Sorry, I couldn´t figure out how to rotate this darn photo. So, just tilt your head slightly to the left...a little more...there, now you can see it! :o)
We also went to the Parc Guell. If you recall, I had made the trek up to this park the day before I returned to the States. So I wasn´t feeling 100% - more like 30%. And, was not prepared for the San Francisico like hills. It was nice to return and be able to pass the elderly folks vs. them speeding past me like they had the first time. I love this park. If it wasn´t such a hike to get to, I´d go every day.
We also decided to take a short trip outside of the city. We took a group bus tour to Girona - a small town just an hour outside of Barcelona and then to Figueres - which is where Salvador Dali is from. He had created the Dali Museum before he died. Traci and I had studied Dali a bit in a Spanish class back in high school so we wanted to pay homage to the man...as strange as he was. His museum was as quirky as we imagined it would be, filled with images of bread and eggs. We later read that he ate bread and eggs often as a child so it´s his childhood memories that he´s pulling into his art, hence the beautiful woman statue with the loaf of bread on her head. Interesting....
As you can see from these photos there is no sign of my sister and Traci. But, I swear, they came. They just refused to sign the photo release form. :o)
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