update from spain...second try

the little sis finally made it in on tuesday....yes, she was supposed to make it to paris on monday, but thanks to a techincal delay in dallas, the poor dear had a 22 hour delay...in her absence, i had a nice goodbye dinner with aaron, sophie, and olivier...we had an appero at morel et fils and then went to chez loulou for a late dinner...unforutnately i had to get up super early to get gracie at the airport (4:30) so i got to spend the night at oliviers...i made it to charles de gaulle airport about an hour and a half after her plane got in (the first train wasn't untill 6am!!!! damn sncf!!!!)...luckily i found her and after a train ride to brussels, bus ride to charles le roi airport, a plane ride to girona and another bus ride we were able to make it to barcelona...all the transfers make me question ryan air's fabulousness, especially concidering that the flight was one big flying commercial...announcements every five minutes, attendants up and down the aisles constantly, selling food, selling scratch-off game cards, selling duty free....all we wanted to do was sleep!!!!

barcelona has been a blast so far...first day we crashed immediately at the hostel (only after a killer falafel for dinner)...yesterday we went to the market and bought breakfast (fruit salad and smoothies) then headed on a little walking tour of the gaudi monuments...we started with a tour of casa batlló, checked out the sagrada familia and then headed to park güell...we ended the day with a great dinner at les quinze nits...

today was quite exciting...and well, weird...but i don't have time to recount all now....but soon my pretties...hope everyone is doing well....

adios