Selling Our Souls to European Fashion

A soccer player and La Sagrada Familia - in Chocolate

You'd think that we have better things to do and see in Barcelona than to go shopping, but we went shopping none the less.  Walking up Las Ramblas, a pedestrian only "road" flanked by one way roads and then shops on either side, we saw one store that we had to go into, and then another, and then another... you know how that goes.  So we spent a good portion of the afternoon trying on cute shirts and dresses that are way more colorful and with multiple patters on any one piece than anything you'd find in the US.  We were hooked and luckily I have a limited amount of space so I couldn't buy out the stores.  However Kat kept reminding me that she could take things back for me, which was dangerous!

After our shopping adventure we did some real sightseeing, visiting the Chocolate Museum!  While it did have information about where chocolate came from and how it is made, we were most excited for the chocolate sculptures.  They had everything from Sponge Bob to gladiators fighting and from Up to Michelangelo's Pieta.  It was a fantastic museum - if you're ever in Barcelona, you really should go!

We did get to the main Cathedral in Barcelona and a cool market where we got fresh mango and kiwi juice to cool off.  This day was very atypical and was topped off by watching a women's tennis match taking place in Canada on TV with the announcers speaking German.  Go figure!