So I Bought Me a Ticket, Hopped on a Plane to Spain.

So It's been a crazy crazy week since I've returned from fall break in Spain & Portugal, and haven't had the time to update, but NOW the moment you've all been waiting for.

Our adventure begins on the afternoon of Saturday, October 30th when Katie, Christian & I hopped on a plane to Barcelona. When we finally arrived in Barcelona around midnight, gotten lost when we got on a train instead of a metro, miraculously found a metro station in the outskirts of Barcelona, and made it to the hostel, we had little energy to do anything except find a restaurant and grab a Bocadillo Tortilla Espanola and a pitcher of Sangria, which you will see, was a re occuring theme on our trip.
 I realize that even if I tried to summarize my time in Barcelona, and Spain in general, I'd still have written a novel. So, with that said, I will revert to my style of stating various observations I mad during my time in Spain, begining with

BARCELONA:

• Catalan- mixture of Spanish and French spoken in the northern region of Spain, threw me off a bit. BUT having the opportunity to speak Spanish again was phenomenal. 
• Our hostel was awesome, clean, fun, and an awesome location! Not to mention we had some crazy Greek men as our roommates who were huge fans of Katie and I, but Christian, not so much hahah.
• Halloween in a country other than the US was an adventure, we ended up going to a club on the beach called Opium that was having a Halloween theme. Pretty sure 3/4 of the people there were Americans. Still fun none the less!
• The Gaudi architecture around the city of Barcelona was breathtaking, and has now become an obsession of mine. Christian and I decided we could wander around the park he designed for days at a time, like a secret garden of sorts. The man was a genius.
• La Rambla: The main street in Barcelona, where you can find anything and everything. TONS of shopping, and it's always busy. Tons of vendor stalls selling everything from flowers and newspapers, to pets, like birds, turtles, bunnies, and even chipmunks!
• The huge open air market was unlike anything I've ever seen, like a farmers market on steroids, more fruit, produce, nuts, seafood, meat, and other goods than you could ever imagine!

Now for a photo montage of Barcelona:

Some sort of parade we stumbled across!

View of Barcelona from the Gaudi park :)

One of Gaudi's gorgeous creations.

Some delicious fruit at the open air market.

Got my fruit fix :)

Next up: MADRID!

• First off, no where near enough time in this beautiful city.
• SO much history, so little time to absorb it all, which is why a 3 hour walking tour was a phenomenal way to get a taste of the city. And our enthusiastic British Tour guide had a sweet mustache going on. 
• The shops there had more Big Lebowski shirts than I've seen anywhere else.. The Dude abides.
• I'm now a HUGE supporter of free walking tours. 
• Madrid night life is off the chain, I had SO much fun!
• Tapas could very well be one of God's greatest gift to man, right behind Sangria and Tortilla Espanola. 
• I could very well spend eternity in Madrid, and I'm SO sad I didn't make it to any of the museums!

Madrid in photos:

Christian pretending to be inbred King Carlos on our tour with our fun tour guide with an outrageous moustache!

Katie Christian and I in front of a statue of a bear eating berries off of a tree that make it drunk, also on the flag of Spain.

Christian & I in Plaza Mayor!

So, this post does not even come CLOSE to conveying my love and fascination with the beautifuly amazing country of Spain. I will be back later in life to explore more of the country for a longer period of time, who knows, maybe even teach a little English for a year or so so I can live there :)