Halloween in Barcelona

This week we went to Barcelona, with dad's cousin, another Sal Rocco and his family. Sal has a daughter, Jennifer my age, a son, Anthony who is 7, and another son, Nicolas who is 5. I loved hanging out with Jenny especially on Halloween night when Jenny and I were matching Hello Kitty. 

MJ Lives!!

On halloween night we went for dinner and then went to a flamenco opera performance which I found boring.  After the show we all went to our apartment and Jenny and I put on a dance that we had been working on.  As well, Simona, who dressed up as Michael Jackson danced to Thriller.  That night Jenny invited me over for a sleepover.    

Monday was our last day with our cousins and we went to the Joan Miro museum in the morning which I also found very boring.  After the museum we found ourselves sitting in a square in front of a huge cathedral and dad spontaneously started a soccer game with a bunch of Italian kids we met.  Now that I did NOT find boring!    We had a great time.      

Barca Juniors!!

That evening we took a walk along the beach and Anthony, Niki and I had races…. Of course I always won!!  We then went for ice-cream and as we always did, Jenny and I got the same flavours, strawberry and lemon…yum!!   With ice cream in hand we walked arm in arm talking and talking until it was time to say our goodbyes.    I can’t wait to visit Jenny in Rome and she promised she would come visit us in Nice.   

 As for me (Simona), I really enjoyed going to see the Sagrada Familia a church designed by Antoni Gaudi.  Gaudi was a famous architect that designed many buildings, including Casa Milia, Casa Battlo and a mosaic park called Parc Guell which we visited.  We didn't get to go inside the Sagrada Familia but seeing it from the outside was enough. The detail, the shapes that were used, all the carving and structuring was incredible. The temple was very well designed and I really like Gaudi's style of architecture. As I looked up at the church I wondered how they were able to build a church so tall and complicated without the technology we have today.  Construction began in 1882 and it is estimated that it will likely be finished in 2026.

The highlight however, was going to watch a Barcelona FC vs. Sevilla game with my dad.  The stadium was ginormous and holds 110 000 fans. I thought the stadium back home where TFC play was big but this was three times the size. The wave was constantly going around the stadium and all the fans were cheering wildly. Four minutes into the game Messi dekes two defenders shoots, and scores. The fans go wild cheering.  The game ended 5-0 Barcelona with Messi scoring two goals, Villa scoring two goals and Alves scoring one. I was disappointed when the game was over as I didn't want to leave the energy in the stadium.  Hopefully, I will get the chance to go to another game while we are here in Europe.        

Simona & Madeleine