Barcelona

So much to write about that great city! Oh, where to start! Traveling on a plane for more than 8 hours is aweful. But when you start seeing the landscape and the beautiful mountains thru those tiny airplane windows, makes you think...Wow it was all worth it! It was all ok on our way there, but once we arrived at the airport in Barcelona that was a completely different story. I felt completely lost, but I tried not to show it so I would not make my kids or my sister panic. I wanted to keep that feeling to myself. I opted to just follow the "crowd" after getting off the airplane. We were greeted by an "hola" from the customs man. He was quite friendly. We kept following the crowd and we picked up our luggage, but after that we were on our own! Scary! Well, we knew we were going to need euros, so we exchanged our worthless dollars! I think the euro is worth $1.35 dollars. Even though these people speak Spanish, it was hard for me to understand. I felt really embaressed using my Spanish. Their Spanish is so proper and so fast! I was so exhausted from the trip, and all I wanted was to get to the apartment and get some badly needed shut eye! We needed to take the metro to get there, and we had no idea where the heck to get it! And we couldn't understand when we would ask them for directions. We always had to ask more than once! We finally found which direction to go to get on the metro. The next ordeal was to figure out how to purchase the ticket! Not to mention that everything was in two languages. Catalan and Castellano (Spanish). The guy at the metro explained it to us and somehow I ended up buying 40 passes! We got on the metro (later we found out it was the train and no the metro) and we knew which stop to get off on. Somehow I got really confused and we were at our stop, but I thought that it was the next stop where we had to get off. We took a long time to make a decision, and everybody ended up getting off except me! I was stuck on the train, and the doors had shut! Luckily there was a button on the inside and outside that you can press just in case you get stuck like an idiot. to be continued....