Back to Barca!

For those of you who didn't know, when I arrived home from London I was extremely sick. I had a very bad fever, feeling so weak I was unable to go to school for the whole week.  This means that I got homesick for the first time over here, which I thought would never happen. So I was glad to head to Barcelona to spend time with family for a weekend! My mom's brother Dave lives in Barcelona, and his sister Elissa was there for a visit so it was a Glatz reunion!


My flight landed at 10 on Friday night and after realizing at home for a while, we went out to Sitges because Carnaval was going on! It's basically like Halloween with people dressing up in costumes, and the streets are packed with people. I was "trash girl" wearing a trash bag and a newspaper skirt. Elissa was some kinda of weird thing involving a broken hoolah hoop-we said she was Queen Frostine from CandyLand but all the locals thought she was Cupid! Then you had Dave dressed as Boy George. Nobody got the reference! Finton, Dave's Irish friend, was dressed as a target, wearing a dart board around his neck. I wasn't feeling well that night to be walking around outside so unfortunately I had to be the party pooper.

Carnaval

Aunt Elissa and Finton

The next day we went out to lunch overlooking the Mediterranean with some family and friends, and afterwards we headed into Barcelona for some exploring. That night we hung out in the city and tried Leche de Pantera-panther milk. It's milk with a very sweet alcohol in it and is dangerously yummy. We even tried a pink panther, which tasted more like a strawberry milkshake. 

Mediterranean Sea

lunch with everyone

Leche de Pantera

Behind the bar!

the crew.

The next day we headed to the family house of Dave's friend Tony (who showed us all around last time we were in Barcelona). First we drove around Montserrat, which is a huge picturesque mountain that is so cool looking it looks fake. They think it was actually created under the ocean hundreds of thousands of years ago, which is where it gets its charm from. 

View from Montserrat

Me, Dave, and Lucia near the top

me and Aunt Elissa!

Can you see the camel and its humps?

So we had a big family lunch, complete with paella and afterwards we headed to the family farm. There were ponies, dogs, chickens, geese, and pigs. 

Family lunch

World's cutest town.

worried about waking up Frodo.

View of Montserrat from the town

Lucia riding a pony-bareback!

And that's pretty much it! It was a super fun weekend spent hanging out with family. I got to try some of my grandma's famous sweets that my aunt brought over! What more could I ask for? 

me and the biggest, laziest, sweetest dog ever.