Rain, rain go away don't come back until after sail away...

It poured all day, but that’s OK - we still saw a lot.

We did Sagrada Familia and Park Guell, as well as getting to Disney store 2 of 3. Tons of walking, and I was again reminded that a tired 6 year old is a miserable thing!
If you ever get a chance to go to Sagrada Familia - jump on it. I was awe struck. I am not normally a church tourist, but come-on.... This is amazing. We did the audio tour and we learned so much. Cool thing is that Becca for kids audio and the rest of us got standard versions. She stayed with it for quite a while and then that was that. Did I mention that tired 6 year olds that get hungry are more than miserable? The church was, again, amazing! Have pictures - will try and post them tomorrow.

We stopped at a small sandwich shop near the bus stop for a quick bite. OK, we are in Spain - there is no such thing as quick, unless you are in a cab... Anyway, we chose it for because they claimed to have hotdogs. Well, the menu said hotdogs and there was a picture of a hotdog, and our 6 year old will eat hotdogs... Guess what? Yep, tired, miserable, hungry, more than miserable and we told her she could have a hotdog - so I was dubbed the one that never loved her... UUGH!!! Finally got her to eat the standard fare - ham and what appears to be a tomato spread.

After lunch we jumped back on the HOHO bus and headed to Park Guell. HEY - here’s a tip... IF you take the HOHO bus, do NOT take it to Park Guell. Take the standard metro. HOHO = very bottom of a fairly steep hill. Standard Metro line = TOP of hill... Let’s just go with my calves hurt and if KERMIT ROCKS is right, I am not going to wake up pain free in the morning...  Oh, outside of the hill, it is an amazing place.  We didnt'do it justice.  They say it takes hours.  We just didn't have hours...  We just really need to come back!!

This evening was the HRC meet. TONs of our new DIS family there! It was great, but I was running near empty, and there were so many and poor Becca was a bit overwhelmed... We grabbed a table with Hayley, Terry and the girls and let the girls get acquainted. I can't wait to really meet Lynne and Len! I was flitting around so much that I think I kind of blew her off - and that was not at all intended!!!
Post HRC it was the magic Fountain display. Wish I could say it was wonderful, but to be brutally honest, it was cold, windy and wet. A total bust. We got some cool pics of the museum though, but any pics of the fountain show in my scrapbook will be from GOOGLE!!!

Getting up early tomorrow to gventure out and see if we can get breakfast somewhere.  We need to meet the bus griup  here at 830ish to get a group photo.  Then we board the bus around 9 and we are off to the Magic!!!

Cant wait!!!

We have arrived!!!!

Words can not describe how bad clothing worn for 40 hours smells!!!  Especially after one tours for a day in hot, humid weather...  UUGH!!!  I will be doing a load of wash right off...

Obviously by this time you have figured out that we have arrived in Barcelona.  It is an awesome, gorgeous city, with ancient, old and modern feels to it.  Absolutely wonderful.  Saw the Futball Staduim, port, the Diagonal and the platform diving stadium today in addition to the rest of the Barcelona City HOHO Orange line.  OMG - the arcitechture!!!

Was really kind of PO's at the Futball Mega Store....  Nothing says BAD customer service like telling the last person in line tha the line closed and they will have to wait in yet another line to spend money....  We tossed our purchases down and were heading out when I noticed that upstairs there were cashiers BORED!  Sent Stephen racing down the escalator to gather our shirts from the bin of soccer balls (where we tossed them) so Glenn and Stephen have shirts...

Luckily this was overcome by going to the DISNEY Store at stop 14 or so.  I love great customer service, and Disney Barcelona did it!!! 

Overall, the city is great - and we are having a riot!!!  Want to see the scrap book page for day 1 post airport?  Look here...  https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5sI02Bp3EwTM2Q2YjFlYjctNmY0OC00Nzc3LTgxNzctNThkZjg2NjQzODhi&hl=en&authkey=CKfXwMwG

Loose ends...

Well, we are getting down to the loose ends of preparing to leave.  Really, the last of the packing can be done in under an hour, so it is all about the house...  I hate to come home to a messy house...  So...  This morning I cooked the last of the breakfast food that is in the house.  Cleaned out the fridge, and now it looks like I don't buy food.  I cleaned the washer (front loader) so it is done.  I have 3 or so loads of laundry to do before we leave - including sheets and towels, so we are in good shape there.  If I could get the kids to stop making messes I would be ready to go!  unfortunately at 13 and 6 messes are abundant, and their idea of cleaning them up isn't always on par with mine...

We are also making the last entries to the website (www.transatlanticpirates.com) to show everyone in the tastings that I set up.  So, that is that.  now DH needs to step away from baseball and concentrate on getting the last minute to do list knocked out.

If all goes as planned, I am three posts away from leaving for the airport!  I can text and email to the blog, so hopefully I can give frequent updates.  Heard that blogging on the ship may be blocked - but they can't stop my emails from going - so there is a way!  Just not sure how we will do photos...  I hope to test this as well.  I think worst case I will have to upload pictures to my photobucket and then imbed the links into my email...  With internet fees so $$ on the ship I will have to type everything I can into word first.  Somehow we need to work it out as Stephen will be blogging for school as well...