Best of Barcelona!

AY YI YI! Lo siento for the delayz...Sure, we may be back in the States but no worries, the blog carriez on!

Let me pick up where we left off...from Rome to Barcelonaaaa! Que bonita! And what an upgrade...We are talking "Junior Suite" status: bathrobez, slippers, bidet, flatscreen TV, lightz on the headboard, mini-fridge, coffee maker, sitting area...ok, it may not sound that impressive but compared to everywhere else we stayed, this place was MUY RICO.
Naturally, Lauren (God bless her!) managed to squeeze another strenuous activity into our intinerary! Despite the heat, the Fat Tire Bike Tour of the city was spectacular!
Take it from this Citygurl, bike tourz are really a FAB way to see any city...well, any FLAT city. You learn all the quirky deetz and stories which otherwise would go totally unnoticed by tourists.

Take this monument, for example. The Barcelona version of the Arc de Triomphe was erected as a pretty decoration to welcome peepz into "New Barcelona" on the other side- it was between putting up this arc or putting up some other tower idea brought forth by some other guy-Stephen EIFFEL!
And these 3 Arc gurlz come as a package deal. (Excuse my poor photography, it was an action shot from the cycle!) They are Justin Beiber's biggest Spanish fans and they sing his tunez...all day, errday.

Continuing our Barcelona tour, we saw the fantasticly beautiful work of Antoni Gaudi- the famous Spanish Catalan architect. Here is the Sagrada Familia. Notice how different the front and back designs are...this Cityboi is uhhhhh-mazing.

Gaudi devoted his last years to this project (still unfinished) and lived in a small hut in the back of the church. When the Vatican denied him funding for the project, he went ahead and started building anyway. Until the Sagrada Familia was consecrated by the Pope in 2010, the church was established as a non-religious site.
Gaudi has a collection of houses scattered all over the city. You really can't miss his designs. Local Catalans still love him for it.

During our bike tour, we met new Pedal Palz! Citygurl Jenna and Cityboi George are the Newlywedz from Chicago! After our sangria pit-stop on the beach, we went to Las Ramblas for a night on the town.

Lauren iz livin' La Vida Loca!

And what better way to recover from a long nite of salsa-ing than to catch some rayz on the Barcelona beach...
Yes, my beach days were SOLO because at this stage in the game, Lauren's burnt skin was beginning to bubble. OLE!


Adios Amigos. xo.

La Catrina