Tuesday, March 18, 2014

37. Spring Break!

Yesterday, I spent all day traveling from Nice to Barcelona. Everyone at Purdue dropped their books and headed to some state with better weather for Spring Break 2014!

Friends!
Thetas!





















I'm keeping up to date with everyone through Facebook and snapchat. Who needs texting these days? This week I'll start each post with an update on what all my friends are doing for break, and how it's like I'm almost there with them. Today, there were so many posts about the Purduettes first show of break. They all took a bus down to the sunshine state for a week long tour with shows along the way
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Well I didn't perform, but I saw a show too!! Every Sunday at 12, local townspeople gather to perform an old Catalan dance, called the Sardana.  


They even have matching shoes! Just like our Purduette outfits...



Our first day in Barcelona was a success! After watching the Sardana dance we took a look in the Cathedral of barcelona - or church number 33. It's a Sunday, so there was a church service going on, but that doesn't stop the hoards of tourists trying to experience Barcelona! We saw the parts of the cathedral that surrounded the inner sanctuary.



Right across from the cathedral is the architect school. Covered in scaffolding. How ironic.


We learn a lot about saints in our travels. The patron saint of Barcelona is Saint George. it is said that he slayed a dragon to save a princess. A rose grew out of the place where the dragons blood was shed, and Saint George gave this Rose to the princess. So wherever we go we can always see little signs of how this legend has integrated itself into the city through art and architecture.


We had a couple hours before all the museums opened for free so we took a walk through the city and happened upon a soap shop! They are really popular in a lot of the places we've been. Because we don't have gelato to buy here, Arden and I decided to splurge on a bar. She bought a strawberry flavor and I got Flora de Loto.


I always love the the warning signs. I had to throw this in here.






The Fredrick Mares Museum was just a big collection of a bunch of random things. Arden, Scarlet, and I played "Guess my favorite"

We played with the fans - about 2000 of them - purses,pipes, tiaras, and glasses. It kept us pretty entertained.

I remember very little about the The Barcelona History Museum. Except the roman ruins part. There were a few floors that walked us through how Barcelona became what it is, but who cares about all that stuff when theres a bunch of 2000 year old ruins under your feet! I try to envision what it used to look like, but mostly it just looks like rocks...


While building some of the walls of the church they reused some materials. Below is what is left from a fish store. The circular tubs are where they cooked the fish, or stored them, something with fish.


We had a long walk home and Brody checked every ice cream shop on the way back. We are only just beginning to accept the fact that there's no such thing as a 1 euro 2 scoop cone here...

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