You are made of stars!

Granada at night is a beautiful place. A few people have inquired about how the Spanish decorate their houses at night. Truth is, seeing Christmas lights on apartment buildings is unusual, but the city puts up lights on the trees and in the streets. Comments are below photos.

The Genil river.

The Fuente de Granada (Fountain of Granada).

We walk down this walkway every day to get to class.

This is in the Plaza Bibrambla. There's a restaurant there that has EXCELLENT chocolate con churros. Café Fútbol is good, too. But it's in a different part of the city.

Calle Reyes Católicos. Where all the shopping happens. :)

This is a plaza off of Reyes Católicos. I can't remember the name of it...

La Puerta Real intersection connecting Calle Reyes Católicos and Calle Recogidas. For you non-Spanish-speakers, calle = street.

Yes, that's a Häagen Dazs. And right next to it is a Burger King.

C/Reyes Católicos

I think I took this on C/Recogidas.

C/Reyes Católicos

Street off of Puerta Real.

The not-Christmas tree in Plaza Bibrambla.

More to come.

<3

BARCELONA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About 25 of us in our program went to Barcelona for four days! It's a beautiful city, full of works by Gaudí, which which were some of my favorite things about it. Enjoy!

This is the first work that Gaudí ever did. In his youth he was afraid of the dark, so there are several lamps on this lamppost.

Don't know what this building is, but the designs on it are cool. Again, it's by Gaudí.

It kind of reminds me of something out of a Tim Burton movie.

Those are chimneys.

We didn't go in because it cost 18 euro. Sad day.

This is an actual apartment building, and it costs 42,000/mo to live there. Any takers? No?

When he was alive, Gaudí started remaking some of the roads with tiles like this. It was considered "vandalism," so the city was taking it out as he was putting it in. After he died, they realized that people enjoyed it, so they remade some sidewalks with tiles that have designs "inspired" by Gaudí.

This is the Sagrada Familia, a cathedral that Gaudí designed. He died before it was finished. To me it seemed more like a work of art than a place of worship, but it's still a magnificent building.

He put fruit on it. No idea why.

This is a sketch of what the finished product would have looked like.

This is the other side of it.

He put in a lot of pillars to give the feeling of being in a forest. See how the pillars separate at the top as if they were trees?

The stained glass windows are awesome.

That Saturday night, some of us went to the Barcelona vs. Valencia game. This is the outside of the stadium...

...and the inside. Kayla and I were sitting maybe 7 rows from the very top. (It's what we get for buying the cheapest tickets.)

Messi, #10

We won! :)

This is a park thing we went to. To be honest, I had no idea what I wanted to do that day so I just went with the first group that asked me if I wanted to join them.