Day 13...Last Day in Barcelona!

Day 13, June 27th:

Last Day in Barcelona!

After a short 3-hour nap, we began our day by heading to La Sagrada Familia, one of Gaudi’s most famous buildings. It was absolutely amazing!  The architecture is so unique as there are basically no straight or flat walls in the entire building.  After we finished exploring, we headed across the street to purchase a local staple: can art!  As young children make Palmetto Roses in Charleston, people make little dishes out of soda pop cans.  It is not really easy to explain, so you will have to wait until I get home to see it!  It is pretty cool for only one euro.  I bought one for my port pal Jenn too (port pals are like non-secret secret santa’s from our Sea/floor group).  We then ate lunch at a pizzeria called Pizza Marzano.  Yet again, Danielle, Heather and I bought two pizzas, an Americana pizza (pepperoni…but not like ours…it was totally different because they make theirs here) and a Quattro Formaggi pizza, and split them between us.  Both were very good! I can’t wait until Italy… 

After lunch, we bought some international stamps from a tobacco store (the only place you can buy stamps besides the post office) and mailed out a few postcards.  Since we only had a few hours left before we had to be back on the ship, we headed to the mall right by the ship to see if they had another Alcampo store to purchase some more food, but they didn’t have one.  We walked around the mall anyways, before heading back to the ship. 

All of us then gathered in the Garden Lounge to write our blogs, but I was so tired that I couldn’t think straight.  We all ate dinner on the ship again for the first time since we crossed the Atlantic.  We had pork, rosemary potatoes, broccoli, and little chocolate cake pinwheels with chocolate mouse filling.  After this point, Heather was so funny! She basically fell asleep everywhere: Danielle’s bed, at the table while eating late-night snacks, while walking down the stairs, on the deck while observing the redness of the moon, etc.  I even had to carry her out of the dinning room…well kinda!  How funny!  I then crashed on the bed around midnight!  ITALY DAY TOMORROW!!!