The Benedictine Monk retreat at Montserrat in Catalunya (Spain)
To get there, you ride this yellow cable car. . .

until you reach this

Then if you hike above the monastery. . . you see this.

Enjoying our favorite snack in Barcelona. Churros (long stick like donuts) and Chocolate (hot chocolate that is so thick it is like drinking warm homemade pudding).

Looking out over the Mediterranean Ocean.


It was actually pretty chilly the whole week we were there (55-65 degrees) but the kids insisted on swimming anyway. This time, fully clothed. We loved all the beaches!!!!

I love this building but I never figured out what the pink camo thing in front of it is.

The highlight of every vacation for Mia is finding playgrounds.

This one had a zipline.

Morgan's hair clip. We shopped at a flea market and found great hair accesories.

We passed this to and from Barcelona and our apartment. It is some sort of crypt. It kind of creeped out the kids.

We spent quite a bit of time hunting this cathedral down--several subway changes, lots of walking and when we finally get there we decide that next time, we buy a postcard and just say we went there. It was rather hideous, closed for renovation, and it was the warmest day we had there. This is the La Sagrada Familia Cathedral.

Park Guell von Antonio Gaudi-
So, after the cathedral disaster we decided to take the kids to what the guidebook said was a nice quiet park to see the gaudi lizard statue and enjoy the park. Apparantly it's not such a quiet park anymore.

and the lizard statue was quite small and you couldn't see it well due to all the people. Oh well.

The architecture was neat though.

