My life as a European!!

Picasso Museum (1/18)-This was a pretty interesting museum. It had a few really famous pieces of art. It was broken down by period which was interesting as well.

Parc Guëll (1/19): This was a great time! Gaudí actually created this park. It´s in the mountains so the view is absolutely amazing! The art within the park-between sculptures, buildings, benches, etc-was sooo amazing! My friends and I actually ended up climbing a mountain that day and got to see Barcelona from an amazing angle!! This day was a lot of fun!

History Museum of Catalunya (1/25): This was cool, but very hard to appreciate because it was all Roman ruins aka rocks. You entered the museum, took an elevator down, and entered what used to be a Roman city (dating back to 11BC). It was preserved and studied to an extent that they were able to figure out where the laundry facilities were, where they made wine, etc. After about an hour of being there, I finally got really into it and started taking pictures of everything because I thought it was so cool. By the time I left, I had about 50 or more pictures that in reality looked like a bunch of rocks!!

Tarragona (1/26): I took a trip during the day here! It´s a beach city in the south of Catalunya, very calm and quaint, with Roman ruins scattered through the city. The biggest attraction was the Roman Ampitheater which was VERY well preserved and pretty cool! It was a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. It was really interesting to see how the atmosphere changes just by going a little bit south.

Sitges (2/2): I went here to celebrate Carnaval which I still don´t have too great of an understanding of! Basically Carnaval is a week-long thing where people dress up in crazy costumes. I´m pretty sure it has to do with lent because it was the week right before lent and the biggest night for the celebration was Fat Tuesday. This trip was pretty interesting...my friends and I tried to cram an extreme number of people into a small hotel room and ended up getting in trouble by the staff! I had to calm down the receptionist (in Spanish) and let him know that we would only have 3 people say in the room...it put a slight damper on the trip but was a worthwhile experience to say the least!

National Museum of Art in Catalunya (2/5): This was a trip for class, kind of boring, but cool! It had Roman art restored from churches. We learned a lot about the symbology of art during that time...blah blah blah The best part about the museum is that it´s a huge palace-looking building nestled in the mountains. The view of Barcelona is amazing as well! I´m going to go back sometime because at night there´s a light show and the ponds leading up to the top having fountains and lights...it should be pretty spectacular!

I think I´m missing a museum...I´m sorry, but I think you´ll be okay not knowing about it!!