Our second day in Barcelona was perfect. We went first thing to see La Sagrada Familia, which is all Ellie had wanted to see for months -- it had been shut down several times in the last couple weeks due to protests, so we were glad we had early morning tickets. Even if it meant waking up everyone early and walking the mile and a half to it :-) It was so cool. The outside was just so strange to me when I first saw it, but up closer it was amazing to see the different facades -- I especially loved the very geometric shapes of the sculptures on the one the Passion facade. And the details on the Nativity side were astounding. But my favorite, by far, was inside. We'd seen some truly amazing cathedrals the last week (Toledo in particular) -- but this was so much more about just the building and architecture and the windows and the light -- it had a totally different feel, and was my favorite of all the inside of cathedrals we'd seen. Going up the tower and the views were incredible, and I loved coming down the 300 stairs with my kids, they loved everything about it -- even if Isaac was a little nervous during the hundreds of feet straight down view in the winding staircase center :-)
After that, we visited the Barcelona Stadium (which was supposed to have hosted "El Clasico", the game between Madrid and Barcelona, while we were there, but had been cancelled due to protests), and then headed to Montjuic. The kids loved taking the scenic tram up to Castell de Montjuïc. This fortress had some of the most amazing views of Barcelona and of the ocean. We then took the bus to over by the piers and explored more of town, then got ice cream and headed back to the apartment.
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