Eres tu el trigo de mi pan ♥

Or in English, you are the wheat of my bread. romantic, no? It's a line in this really bad Spanish song in the back of our phrase book. We did a whole lot today. For lunch we had chicken and some ravioli type stuff with the weird imitation parmesan they use here that I'm still not used to. After lunch around 3:30 we took the metro 1 stop to La Sagrada Familia. I think that it has to be the most impressive thing I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of cool stuff in my day. It's insane how much detail is in it. We got a lot of great pictures. After walking around there for a bit, we headed home to grab our map and I asked mama and papa what bus line to take to get to Casa Batllo and La Pedrera (2 very famous houses built by Antoni Gaudi). We haven't taken the bus yet but there is a bus stop 50 yards from our house and it was much easier than the metro. We're hoping to start taking the night bus (nitbus) home when we go out at night instead of taking cabs because it will save us a lot of money and a bus driver won't try to screw you over like a taxi driver would. I haven't had any bad experiences with taxi drivers yet luckily, but I've heard people complain that they drive you all over town a very roundabout way to rack up the fare.
Our unlimited metro passes work for the buses as well. We went to Casa Batllo first and it was awesome. From there, we walked 5-6 blocks to La Pedrera and got more good photos for the scrapbook I plan to make. I've been saving everything in hopes to put it all together when I get home. After La Pedrera, we got back on the metro and got off on a stop called Jaume I which is near the Gothic quarter of Barcelona, and also where City Hall is. We walked around Carrer de l'Angel for a while which is a cool really old-looking street with lots of good shopping. I got a couple of nice things for my mama. Then we headed back to the metro and stopped at a restaurant near our apartment for some patatas bravas and a Bikini (kind of like a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, not sure why it's called that...) And now here we are, just waiting on Mama Fina to make us some paella for dinner. Our lives are so hard. After dinner its homework time, and our professors seriously have loaded it on this weekend-- I have about 6-7 pages of stuff to do. Hope whoever reads this is enjoying our posts!
Much love,
Leah Kay