do not touch the fruit!

Yesterday morning we took a walk to the beach, a short distance from the place we are staying. What a nice way to start the day. The waves were huge! It was exciting to see the Mediterranean Sea.





After we were dressed and ready for the day, we headed out to the Museum of Contemporary Art. The building itself was designed by Richard Meier (one of Josh’s favorite architects). We enjoyed the exhibits, but we both agreed that the building was the true work of art.







When we left I was a little hungry, we were walking by a small market and saw some clementines…yum! I grabbed a couple and headed to the register to pay for them…I then got yelled at by the store owner…time out…remember Josh’s incident the other day in Madrid when he was yelled at for smelling clementines? Weird. I put them back and ran away. (more later)

On to La Segrada Familia, hard to believe this structure has been under construction for 100 years! I guess we’re not allowed to complain about our construction schedules any longer.



We walked around, saw some shops, had dinner and headed back to “the dream” (The Barcelona Dream Hostel).

p.s. Josh loves Spanish Dumpsters.



This morning we went in search of the local Arts and Crafts Market. Accidentally we stumbled upon a food market instead. We decided to walk through and check it out…they had fruit! Yay! Everything was displayed beautifully. Josh decided to take some pictures of figs, as he went to snap the shot, the lady covered up her figs! What? What is with people and their fruit here? Apparently fruit is a matter of national security.





We went to the Picasso Museum today. I was amazed to learn that over 3500 pieces of work were left to the museum. What an amazing collection!




After we left the Picasso Museum, we went over to the Textile Museum to check its hours. When we headed down the very narrow alley to get some dinner we were intercepted by a loud parade, but not just any parade, a parade with 20’ tall characters…it appeared as though the royals from the movie Shrek had invaded Spain…scary!



Tomorrow is our last day in Barcelona.