Sunday, August 15, 2010

Wednesday August 11th

Having arrived towards the end of the my Aunt, Uncle, and parent's trip to Barcelona, they were pretty tired and ready for a relatively uneventful day. So we decided to go for a nice short shopping trip in downtown Barcelona. We all had a few souvenir and must have item to pick up so we knew we couldn't get sucked in to do too many things. Well let me tell you, I was tempted to want to do so many things but I understood - the feeling of going back home from vacation tired can be very draining. But after walking around, stopping at the stores we intended to and seeing the usual interesting-people-watching-scenes I found myself back in the car as planned.


We came back to the house for a famous Monsterat lasagna lunch and fruit. After which everyone had the feeling for a much needed siesta. This is where I caught up on my sleep I think, mine lasted a good 2 hours! Than I woke up to a full household of people. They had planned a drive up to some of the close by mountains to see the view. Meanwhile I went and played some basketball. Losing track of time, after 2 hours of playing the call to come home because we were heading to Barcelona for dinner was received. Got home, showered and dressed all within 10 minutes to enjoy a great night out. The restaurant was beautiful (fun fact: the restaurant was the one from the movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"), the food was great and the company even better!

We finished off the night with a visit to the eldest brother Carlos' house in north Barcelona, to see his new digs and the painting he did for the baby's room haha. It was a very cool place, the perfect size and use of space, which they had done a great job of making into a home. You don't find anything like that in Canada that's for sure haha. Said our goodbyes :( and headed home.



Another late night well spent. I was ready for bed after some initial packing but couldn't seem to fall asleep when I started to think about how lucky I was to have had the pass couple of day turn out the way they did. Pretty cool …

"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too afraid or indifferent to walk through them." JJ
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