Friday, June 24, 2011

BonJour!!!

We made it to Paris!!!

Barcelona was a blast, definitely the party city of our trip :) we had a great time. On our last day there, the group split up, Jonny, Brenna, Alan, Nick, and Lily went on an all day kayaking tip, while Emma, Erik, and I did some more sight seeing.
We took a gondola up to the top of a very large hill, I wouldnt quite call it a mountain, that over looked all of Barcelona. At the top was a beautiful old castle. We spent an hour our so walking around and taking pictures. After that we went to the beach, Emma and I decided to "do like the locals do" (we sent erik away of course) and we spend the rest of the day there.

We got to paris yesterday and spend the day walking around the streets, touring through Notre Dame. and we had a great dinner at a restaurant that Brenna took us to. All the girls ordered Mac n Cheese, it was soooo YUMMY!! Today we climbed the Eifle Tower, well we climbed 2/3 the way up then had to take the elevator the rest of the way. At the top you could feel the tower moving beneath your feet when the wind blew hard enough, it was pretty crazy!! Tonight we are going on a pub crawl with our hostel then spending the day tomorrow doing some more sight-seeing, to the Louve and the catacombs I think!

Sorry is there is a lot of misspelling in this, they dont have spell check on these computers in english haha :)

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Hi! It is Emma! We have arrived in Barcelona after a long sleepless train ride. Which wasn't super awful but still I am quite tired. For some reason I cannot seem to escape sticker bushes.. Our last day in Lisbon Katie, Jonny and I accidentally took the long way down from the castle and I got cut by some stickerbushes while hugging the wall trying to avoid speeding cars down road not meant for pedestians. Barcelona is amazing so far everyone seems to be having a good time despite getting lost on our way to the hostel. I tried to take everyone to my favorite gelato place but failed miserably and then found out later that it actually closed down. Fail for Emma today. There was a huge rally on las ramblas today apparently there is a new government in Barcelona or maybe all of Spain and funding has been cut so everyone was gathered to protest. There were thousands of people it was crazy and they are still marching in the streets at 1130. We all tried paella today and sangria it was delicious! We miss you all and wish you could be here joining in this experience with us. You are in our thoughts and in our jokes. Brian if you are reading this Nick, Alan, and Erik were a little late for dinner today. Although really they were on time just everyone was ready for them. But anyways we all called them Brian Colbo for taking showers at the last minute. I can't really figure out this keyboard too well which is why my typing might be strange, but I hope that all is well at home. Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers!!! Love you all!!