Pics from Barcelona

Here is the Sagrada Familia, which is my ultimate favorite cathedral, which is still not finished as you can see, because of all the symbolism that I have already explained in past blogs. Below, the number box that I am "holding" is a mathematical symbol created by Gaudi (I think), and if you add any four numbers (they have to be connected/touching) it will add up to the age Christ was when he was crucified (33). Cool huh?

Below, we have Casa Mila, which was also designed by Antoni Gaudi. All of the walls and whatnot are not straight, and in much of his work, you can see a relation to nature because he loved it so much and that's where he got his inspiration from. The picture with all of us covering our faces...it's not because it stinks. It's because we are mimicking the air vents that George Lucas got the inspiration from for his Darth Vader and storm troopers (or so legend has it).


This is the guy that thought I was Cuban, which I'm not, but it was fun to play the trumpet with him. I think I wrote this in my other blog, but the song he was playing was "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.

This picture with the purple shirt is what I like to call my "Sound of Music" picture because I remind myself of Julie Andrews. This was on the way home from Barcelona, and there wasn't much to do or see in the town we stopped in. The other one is my first time swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, and boy was it FREEZING, but now I can say that I did it. And then below here you can see the beach that was two blocks away from the hotel where I went swimming.