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Friday, April 22, 2011

Friday, April 22, 2011 - Barcelona, Spain

Today, we were in Barcelona, Spain. I looooooved Barcelona!

Brad and the boys went to Camp Nou, which is the stadium for the best-in-the-world Barcelona Football Club.  Since Pepper's current obsession is soccer, there was no way he could go to Barcelona without visiting Camp Nou.

 

 They also did a tour of the city and saw lots of cool stuff.



Jess and I went on a bike tour of Barcelona.  I did not have high hopes for the bike tour - it was quite rainy and I wasn't sure how confident I was on a bike.  But, I loved every minute of it!  Yes, we got a little wet, but it was so worth it to see this beautiful city.  
 

 The thing that really struck me about Barcelona was that they had done an amazing job of blending old and new - and it was all equally beautiful, from Gothic cathedrals to Antoni Goudi to Pablo Picasso.  My only complaint was that because I was on a bicycle, I couldn't take pictures as easily as I wanted.  I think I could have taken a picture of every street.
 
 


 

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Thursday, April 21, 2011 - Palma de Mallorca

Today, we were in Palma de Mallorca.  All of us spent the day in Marineland, a little Seaworld-type park.  It was a kind of gray and rainy, but we still had a great time together looking at marine animals and birds.

 
 
The kids especially liked the stingray tank.  Brad kept freaking them out by putting his hand in the water and touching the stingrays.

 

In the aquarium, we saw some sharks and spent a good amount of time finding Nemo:



 There was a very fun bird show put on by two pirates:

This bird was the captain - that's why he got the cushy deck chair.

The parrots swab the deck.

This pirate was very handsome.  Jessica thought this was the Cute Boy Show That Also Included Birds.

 
After the show, the pirates brought the birds over to eat out of the kids' hands.
 

Luke was less than enthusiastic at first.

But, eventually he thought it was pretty cool.


We also got to watch a sea lion and dolphin show:

The dolphins tossed the trainer over the rope.

All in all, a very enjoyable day!