June 17, 2010

After school today Paul and I waited for Alexia to come home and we took the metro to... LA RAMBLA!!!!

Everyone's probably sick of hearing about La Rambla but there is so much to do there! So much to explore!

We met up with Alexia's friend Maria and she took the metro with us... and as soon as we got to Plaça Catalunya Maria's sandal broke! The sole detached and she had to go to El Corte Inglés to buy some tape and I stuck it together for her.

We walked to the Cathedral and waited for Toni to arrive.. Maria left and as soon as Toni got there Paul wanted to go inside the church. Of course, my shorts were too short so I had to wrap Alexia's sweater around my legs and button it up... and then Alexia couldn't get in because her shoulders were showing.... so Toni and I took Paul inside while Alexia waited outside.

The inside was very beautiful... the Cathedral is maybe 500 years old. My trusty tour guide, Toni, isn't always sure... but he does assure me he knows many things. He tells me that a lot haha. There were the caskets of the most important dead kings of Catalunya and his wife from 1058.... of course I liked that. While Toni showed me around, Paul sat so nicely and didn't make any noise.. he just enjoyed the surroundings. I think it's so interesting how he enjoys churches... And another thing I found interesting was that the patron Saint of Catalunya has dark skin.. and when I asked Toni why he said that it's because they got struck by lightning... interesting.

We walked around more.. attempting to get lost. I showed Toni and Alexia the Roman acropolis and found out the graves are from 0-400 AD.... very veryyy oooold dead people. In our quest to get lost we ended up back at the church... and Paul wanted to go see the geese. He also was very thirsty and I didn't have a water bottle... so we had a nice solution

We continued our walk with Toni leading the way. Walking in areas with not so many tourists was refreshing... a lot easier to have conversation and keep track of what Paul's doing. We were making our way to the sea when I smelled an aaamaazing.... we went inside and it was a small candy shop and they had made a fresh batch of strawberry. We all got a sample and it was sooooo good. I should have bought a bag.... I'm going to make sure I find that place again!

Toni also showed us this bar called The Fairy Forest (but its in English) and the inside was just like a forest... trees and dim lights and very interesting decorations that made it seem like fairies really lived there... I'm going to make him take me back one day without Paul... it's a little difficult to eat in restaurants with Paul because he makes a lot of noise and sometimes tries to steal other people's food....

At the water I met some very interesting people................

And Toni got a call from a friend name Alejandro and Alexia and I got a good laugh out of that and forced Toni to listen to the Lady Gaga song... he said it's alright hahaha.. O and he has a friend named Fernando too!!! Alexia and I had fun singing to him while he stood in shock LOOOL

I had to be very touristy at the Christopher Columbus statue and get on the lion... and Paul followed suit and wanted to come up too... so Toni helped him up and joined us for a picture.

We walked straight down La Rambla all the way from end to beginning, and Paul got McDonalds for behaving so well. 3 cheeseburgers and fries. I still don't know how he fits it all in his stomach... and he stole a potato thing off someone's tray. Naughty.

Toni thinks he would only last 3 minutes if he had Paul alone.. and Alexia still doesn't think she could do it. It IS hard work... but it's pretty simple once you show him you're the boss and he can't do anything he wants. Both Maria and Toni commented on how well Paul listens to me... made me happy =)