21 November 2007 · Comment [1]
Picture Explosion Part Eight
Heeey everyone! Let’s see if we can get this thing done once and for all. Also, a quick run-down of what’s been going on lately:
– Britt, Jovanna and I made an early Thanksgiving dinner last night and ate ourselves sick and I still feel sick. Though that’s probably because I’m trying to hit all my favorite Barcelona restaurants as many times as possible before I leave. Yay, heart disease!
– I went to the Bodies exhibit yesterday and looking at their dessicated fingertips and muscle fibers made me start to pass out so I sat down and then I fell asleep because I’d only slept for 6 hours the night before and apparently this is unacceptable now. And then a guy asked me if I was okay but I was just sleeping and it was weird.
– My cell phone was broken in the most magnificent way in that it was letting me make all sorts of calls all around the world for free but then it stopped working all of a sudden when I was talking to my mom. It’s okay because I’m leaving on Saturday but it was still fun while it lasted.
– Just bought tickets to visit Berkeley! December 4-6. It will be awesome! Let’s get dinner!
Okay, pictures:
It’s a shaft of light and a brick wall! Yep. The shaft of light is so visible because it was a smoking café which is gross. Looking forward to New York and its smoking banliness!
Some stairs at Montjuïc, which means Jew Mountain because the Jews used to live there. And now I visit there! It’s the circle of life.
Paaaalomitas! From the awesome bar that gives you free palomitas! Also where Brazilian girls hit on my brother and it’s cute.
My mommy! Yay!
This is the face that my mom makes when she drinks delicious coffee.
My brother! I can practically hear him saying “It was unbewievable!” in a falsetto voice. Don’t try to make any sense out of that, it’s just a thing he says sometimes when things are unbelievable. Oh David! Can’t wait to see you and get sickening amounts of Five Guys with you.
An apartment building on the way to Parc Güell that I like.
Some paving stones in Parc Güell that I like.
A place in Parc Güell that I think is called the Aqueduct but it doesn’t carry water, just tourists.
A snail on a blade of grass in Parc Güell. Neat!
A little fence made out of stones that look like gingerbread men. Guess where it is: also Parc Güell. Ha! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!
A cat! And a cigarette butt!
Aww, look at the adorable little sack of allergens!
Flowers! From what is widely regarded as the best bakery in Barcelona. Rough Guides told me that, I didn’t take a random sampling of the population.
A church! The church of Santa Maria del Mar. “Del Mar” means “of the ocean” and it used to be on the ocean but now it is very far inland because they filled in the land to make the city bigger. Learning!
A stained glass window in the church.
More stained glass! It makes me happy to look at.
La Sagraaaada Familia!
Facey things from the roof of La Pedrera!
Ooo, a different angle! How fancy.
Another stone thing from La Pedrera. La Pedrera means the stone quarry and Duncan’s grandparents’ old house is called The Quarry and they made it with their bare hands with only a couple oxen to help. Just kidding about that last part, there haven’t been oxen in England since they were hunted to extinction in the 1700’s.
More stone things! Yaay.
Aaand a stone archway! Also from the roof. Neat.
Some stones from the courtyard in La Pedrera. Yep, they’re geometric.
La Pedrera! It’s an apartment building that Gaudí designed. But I don’t think anyone lives there now, it’s just a museum.
More Pedreriness!
My dad! He looks so happy! Maybe because delicious pizza is coming in a minute.
A street off of Las Ramblas! Which is the main tourist strip with lots of human statues and performance artists and stuff. That maoz store has amaaazing falafel and Jovanna and I actually just got dinner there tonight.
Look at how squareular this bread is! Amazing.
Some windows. Yup. They make a pattern.
A tower in Plaça Espanya! Duncan said it’s modeled after the tower in Venice, which is also what the Campanile at Berkeley was modeled after. Yay Berkeley! I’m going back to you in a couple weeks.
A giant lobster! He looks pretty happy.
A crazy building! What is that sticking out thing? The world may never know.
A pointy apartment building! Yup.
The Frank Gehry fish! Or a little bit of it anyways. Jovanna hates it because she thought it was going to be so amazing but it’s not like, sooooo amazing. It is a giant fish just sitting in the street, though, and that is neat.
Some umbrellas! At a restaurant on the beach.
A crazy lightswitch plate statue! Neat.
Aaaand a building with some weird little windows in it.
A pretty glass building, yup.
A wall! Yaaay!
Alcachofas! Because my mom wanted a picture of the alcachofas. I love you, Mom!
And that’s the end of the pictures! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! I’m go’n go sleep. Excellent.
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my favorite picture is still the stained glass one, but you even made the fish look amazing!! talent, to be sure. I miss you!
— Jovanna · Nov 25, 09:56 AM · #