The adventures of Kat n' Joe

After checking out of our hotel, we easily made it to the Barcelona airport with plenty of time for our next flight.  The airport didn’t have any free WiFi though, so we had to sit for an hour with not much to do before our flight boarded.  When they boarded our flight they put us on buses and transported us to the plane out on the tarmac.  The flight to Tenerife was about 3 hours long, and pretty uneventful.  However, when we landed, we realized that we hadn’t researched how to get to our hotel from the airport!  The Tenerife airport did not have free WiFi either, so we had to wait an hour for the tourist office to open because the tourist office is closed for an hour each day for “siesta”.  Once the office opened it was very easy to locate our hotel.  We took bus 102 directly to a stop in front of our hotel and checked in.  Our apartment is on the 5^th floor of building number 6 – the way this resort is layed out reminds me a lot of the resorts in Mexico: numerous buildings, all centered around a pool, large lobby area, and restaurant/bar.

We walked to the supermarket here, which was larger than any of the markets we found in Barcelona, but still not as large as anything back home, and picked up some groceries for our first few days here.  A couple frozen pizzas and some pasta with sauce, potato chips, eggs, and cheese.  The resort was kind enough to leave us a basket of fruit, orange juice, milk, a loaf of bread, and a bottle of wine in our apartment so we didn’t need to purchase those items.  We also walked to the pharmacy later that day because Kat had a cold.  The pharmacy gave us a powder substance that has to be mixed with water and drank 3 times per day, but seems to be quite effective.

Today we are keeping it low-key, hanging out by the pool and in the WiFi area to update the blog and our pictures.  We had a frozen pizza for lunch which was pretty good and are planning on making pasta for dinner tonight.  Life is good in Tenerife!

Pictures and videos have been posted from the Barca game!

Our last full day in Barcelona we took the Metro to La Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family), which is a GORGEOUS piece of architecture that began construction in 1892 and will not be finished for another 20 years (It is currently financed by private donations and admission ticket sales – no government money).  La Sagrada Familia is Antoni Gaudi’s most famous piece of work in Barcelona, for good reason.  We were blown away by the amazing detail carved into every archway and available space on the outside.  On the inside, there are more clean lines and stained glass, but it is still breathtaking all the same.  We’ve posted quite a few pictures and a couple videos of La Sagrada Familia.  We ate at another Pizza Marzano location for lunch that day, and had basically a macaroni & cheese dish that was pretty good but the Bufalito pizza was definitely better.

After La Sagrada Familia we returned to our hotel to watch the sun set over the city, before taking the Metro to the MNAC and the Magic Fountain of Montjuic.  The fountain has a light and music show every Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun during the summer months between 9-11:30p.  It was really beautiful and there were a ton of people there!  We have some beautiful pictures and a video of the fountain that we’ll post soon.  That night we ate some tapas and drank some sangria at BarRaval by our hotel; they have delicious calamari and croquetas.  We then returned to the hotel to pack up our belongings and head to the airport the next morning.