We arrived in Barcelona and went right to the hotel to meet up with our good friends from home.  This was so exciting!  We got 4 whole days traveling with them and it was glorious!  The hotel we stayed at in Barcelona was quite a bit more pricey than we’ve been used to, but we were excited to have our own bathroom and a really comfy bed for a couple of nights.

We went out and tasted some of the food and nightlife in the neighborhood we were staying in.

Amazing seafood paella!

Friends! And wine!

We ran into a German festival and had one euro German sausages for lunch.  We also managed to see Park Güell which is a famous park designed by Antoni Gaudí.

Park Guell

We saw a mini truck.

Mini Truck!

Some funky Gaudi furniture.

Gaudi's furniture

It was a really hot day and the ice cream was awesome!  I had TWO that day!

Friends and ice cream!

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And we saw some more Gaudi – an amazing cathedral which was unfortunately covered with scaffolding, but was still pretty interesting.

Cathedral

We only had one full day in Barcelona, so we crammed as much into it as we could, and in general were pretty happy with the place.  It is a huge city and we definitely didn’t cover it all before we hopped in the car our friends had rented and made our way back to Madrid.