Barcelona Part 2

On Saturday we took the underground to the Sagrada Familia. This is a gigantic church that Gaudi started building in the 1880's and still has yet to be finished. Gaudi died in 1927 but other builders and architect's have continued to build the church and follow Gaudi's plans. It is beautiful. Once it is finished (estimated to be finished in the 2080's) it will hold upwards of 40,000 people! That gives you an idea of the size! It towers over alot of the buidlings in Barcelona.

One entrance to the church

The other entrance to the church. You can kind of see the incredible detail!

Mandatory self portrait

This was taken with the tripod, before they yelled at us and told us we couldn't use it. It was a very stupid rule that applied at other places as well.

Some of the columns inside the church. They are supposed to be like trees. Gaudi's designs were always based on nature somehow. Just look at all the incredible details!

Beautiful stained glass from the inside of the church.

More stained glass from the outside of the church.

After exploring the ground level of the Sagrada Familia, we took a lift up into one of the many spires. It was very cool.

Self portrait from the top. You can see all of the construction gear in the background.

Kevin going down the very long spiral staircase in the spire.

Once we finished at the Sagrada Familia, we went to another Gaudi building called La Pedrera. This is a building originally built as an appartment complex. The outside of the building is very typical Gaudi architecture, but the really cool thing about the building are the smoke stacks on the roof. Each smoke stack is a Gaudi sculpture.

The outside of La Pedrera

The smoke stacks on the roof top.

Just me!

A view of the Sagrada Familia from the top of La Pedrera. You can see how it just towers over the rest of the city.

We walked back to the hotel from La Pedrera and walked around La Rambla again on Saturday evening. The shopping was great and it is always fun to people watch. We went back to the Irish pub for drinks and dinner and then we crashed at the hotel.

We went to the ship on Sunday and stayed in the La Rambla area again for the remainder of the day. There were tons of people! It was probably the busiest day we saw. There were even more street vendors out and we did some more shopping. We went to the Irish pub for dinner again and then went to the hotel to pack and get ready to leave on Monday.

On Monday, we flew from Barcelona to Munich, Munic to Chicago, and Chicago home. We didn't have any problems with our flights, other than a small delay in Chicago and not getting our luggage in Colorado Springs. We did have a great suprise in Munich though!

I bought a book in the gift shop and then went to the restroom before we boarded our 10 hour flight. When I got back to Kevin, he asked me who the foreign doctor was on ER. We remembered his character's name was Dr. Kovac, and then Kevin said he is standing in the gift shop! Both of our hearts started pounding. We were so excited to see him. We waited for him to come out of the shop and asked if he would mind taking a picture with us. He said no problem and we chatted with him for a little while. He was on our flight to Chicago.

Kevin with Goran Visnjic - better known as Dr. Luka Kovac on ER

Dr. Kovac and me! I like to refer to him as McHottie - Sorry wrong show!

Thank goodness I had my camera. Kevin always gives me hard time for always having it with me...maybe now he will lay off a bit!

So we are home now. We got back around 11:00 last night. We still don't have our luggage, but at least we are home! We do not have any other big trips planned until January, when we go to see Celine Dion in New Orleans, since the concert here was postponed and we will be out of town during the evening it was rescheduled.

I will keep posting some of the other fun happenings in our life! Thanks again for keeping tuned in! Stay posted!