Finishing up this recap was on my to-do list for Tuesday the 24th when I heard the news of the GermanWings crash out of Barcelona. :( So sad. I had talked about our view of those very Alps out the window with my mom and sister during our Face Time chat just two days before it happened. :(
On our last full day in Barcelona, we planned to hit up one of the top ranked tourist spots on Trip Advisor and "the most beautiful building in Barcelona": the Palau de la Música Catalana. We set out from our hotel only to find we had missed the last English speaking tour by about 15 minutes as they had a private event later that day. :(
Curses! Foiled again!
We took some pictures outside instead:
Then Jason had the idea to go over to the "best" churro place we'd missed out on the other day to cheer me up. On our way over there, we just happened to stumble upon this parade of sorts. I have no idea what it was about but it was very long, extremely casual, and featured lots and lots of young'uns so we watched for a bit:
We finally made it over to Café Granja Viader only to find the darn place closed again. Seriously?!?! Are we going to continue to strike out on our last day in this city???
We headed for the beach by walking down Las Ramblas to the waterfront again:
We stopped for some lunch. I got a few tapas (and more sangria!!), Jason got veggie paella again. Easton was torn between shrimp or chicken? Shrimp or chicken? He doesn't often get to have meat (because I don't usually cook it). The other two had pizza:
Showing off some of their new freckles from our sunny days in BCN:
Finally we made it over to Barceloneta Beach:
The kids searched for shells:
And Easton lived up to his (middle) name sake of "Kai" which, in Hawaiian, means "ocean" or "the sea" (We got married on Maui which is why he has such a name, however, unbeknownst to us at the time, it's also a fairly popular German name):
We sat for a bit and enjoyed the sand, surf, and sun. It was obviously too cold for any sort of wading or anything.
It was also too cold for ice cream but that didn't stop the kids:
We had balancing and "tight rope" walking contests while the kids ate their cones and climbed trees:
We went back to the hotel/flat after that and at this point, I honestly can't remember what we did for dinner. I'm pretty sure we ate up some of the stuff we had bought for the room and that Jason ran across the street for one last serving of churros y chocolate for me. Actually in Catalan, the "ch" is replaced with "x" so it was more like xurros y xocolata. :)
We probably watched some more Disney channel and packed up our stuff for our departure the next morning.
Our flight home wasn't super early like it was to get to Barcelona and the flight home was luckily uneventful. Rather than take the bus when we arrived back in Berlin, Jason wanted to try the S-bahn route which involved a lot more walking and no savings of time or money. Now we know which way we prefer to get to that airport should it come up again. I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and that was the end of Barcelona. A collection of clips from the day--including my impressive tight rope balancing. ;)
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