19 November 2007 · Comment [2]
Picture Explosion Part Seven
Yay, we just moved out of our freezing cold apartment that was out in the middle of nowhere! Now we live in a nice, warm hostel that’s close to the city center and actually has laundry facilities! Which did manage to get my pumpkin sweatshirt even dirtier than when I put it in, but when I told the guy at the front desk we gave me three euros to run it through again! Yaaay, perfection! Soon Jovanna and I are going to go to dinner at the restaurant where Picasso had his first exhibition and then I am going to see the Bodies exhibit. And then I am seeing Duncan in five days!
Okay, I know it’s neither original nor tasteful to make fun of Catholic priests taking advantage of young boys, but who thought this statue was a good idea? Also I don’t think it comes out so well in this picture, but the priest has such a terrifying gleam in his eye. Sick, man.
The cathedral at Montserrat! Which was established because a wooden statue of Mary and baby Jesus was found in a cave among the crazy-looking mountains. You can kiss Mary’s hand and I did but it made me feel funny on account of I’m a Jew.
Stained glass! Yup, just thought it was pretty is all.
Some of those candles that you light when you go to a cathedral! I know, my knowledge of other people’s religious practices astounds even myself.
The front of the cathedral, yup.
Inside the cathedral again! From the other side! This picture makes me happy to look at.
More inside of the cathedral, yup. This time it’s yellow and oriented the other way. Ooo.
Some statues of Jesus and the Apostles from the outside of the cathedral.
The crazy-looking mountains! They look like when we used to go to the beach and Dad would take a handful of really wet sand and make drip castles and they would be so pretty but then David and I would try to do it and they would look like dog doo.
Part of the monastery. Yay!
Annnd the monastery WITH the crazy-looking mountain behind it. Oooo.
You passed but just barely. You know what you got? An F plus. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Get it?? GET IT!? Like the Tenacious D thing! Oh forget it.
Okay, gonna go get my clo’es out of the dryer and hopefully my sweatshirt doesn’t come out of the washer even dirtier again this time because that would make it composed of more filth than sweatshirt and I may as well give it up for a lost cause. More captions later because this hostel has free internet all the livelong night!!! Whoo, gotta stop hyperventilating. Later!
Okay, next day: the pumpkin sweatshirt came out just fine in case you were wondering. Victory! And tonight Jovanna and Britt and I made an early Thanksgiving dinner and I think my stomach exploded. Hurrrrr. But yes, this is one of the houses in Parc Güell, which is a park that Gaudí designed with the intention for it to be a crazy, Dr. Seussey housing development but for some reason it didn’t pan out but it’s still a neat park! This building is the information center.
This is another one of the houses in the park and Gaudí actually lived in this one for a while. And then I actually went back there today because I’d been meaning to go to the museum inside the house since Duncan came to Barcelona two months ago and finally got around to it today. But sadly, I thought it was going to be a museum all about Gaudí‘s life but it really just had some chairs and tables that he designed and it totally was not worth the two-month buildup, boo.
A bench in the park. It’s covered in colorful mosaics. Yup.
A slanty tunnel in the park that kind of gives me vertigo when I even look at a picture of it.
Gaudí‘s big neat thing was incorporating shapes from nature into his designs so this is a fence that is shaped like frondy leaves. Neat.
Some columns in the park. I like this picture because it keeps confusing me because it looks like the bottom third got cut off and replaced with another picture. Yurp. This actually happened when David and I switched memory cards and I used a Linux computer to transfer my pictures off his memory card and it corrupted a bunch of them but they still look neat.
Biiiiiiiblioteca!
A metro tunnel. Lined with ads for Camper shoes, which are just like regular shoes but twice as expensive.
Urquinaona metro station! The metro stations here are disconcertingly hot even when it’s freaking freezing outside. It’s kind of nice when you just step into the sauna-like station from outside but I’m always afraid of getting caught in a freak subway-entrance tornado.
More metro stuff! Yay! It’s purple. Now it is 2:30 in the morning and I am glooooriously still on the internet because our hostel is lovely but I think it’s time for sleep. More pictures tomorrow! I might actually make it to the end of this batch before the trip ends! Which is in eleven days! Creepy. Duncan and Venice in four days! Also I gotta start working on my list of things to look forward to when I get home so I don’t slump into a post-travel depression. I know one thing is Baskin Robbins World-Class Chocolate ice cream. Mmmm. Okay can’t wait to blow this popsicle stand. Later, everyone!
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The algebra 1 teacher just sent this video out through the staff e-mail list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QNI3W8UB-s . It made me think of you and how much I loooves you :D
— Catie · Nov 19, 12:33 PM · #
I can’t believe you got the metro empty for that last pic, lol. sooo coooool
— Jovanna · Nov 21, 10:25 AM · #