Sundays in Barcelona #7

Hola!

We hope you all enjoyed a nice holiday weekend! The kids and I ended up going to the aquarium after church on Sunday, and really had a fun time. It's along the sea in an area called Port Vell, which had a lot of nice open spaces for walking and enjoying the sun and sea. The aquarium itself had a very nice selection of fish, a cool shark tunnel, a big kids play area, and even some penguins! They were very cute. The pictures here are of Caroline waiting to get into the aquarium, Luke & Caroline playing in the submarine in the kids play area, all 3 kids on a big turtle in the play area, and the three of them watching the penguins. It was great how you could see them waddling around on the ice/snow and then sliding down and swimming as well.

This week we got our annual basketball edition of the Daily Tar Heel from friends of our's in Chapel Hill! I couldn't believe they sent it the whole way to Spain. :) They even included stickers and tattoos for the kids, which they loved. The boys happened to be wearing Barca jerseys that day so I couldn't resist a UNC-BARCA picture. Actually, the funny thing is that I had put a UNC jersey on Jackson that morning. But when he saw what Luke was wearing he went and got his Barca jersey and brought it to me saying "soccer ball! soccer ball!" He's way too opinionated for not even being 2 years old yet!

The other funny saying of the week came from Luke when we were leaving the aquarium. We had to walk through a shopping area to get to our car, and of course we passed a candy shop. So I let the kids each pick out a small snack, and Luke chose these huge fat red licorice pieces. As he was eating them he was fussing about how good they were and wanted me to try one. I really didn't want any so I kept saying no thanks, and finally he said "they're really good Mom, they kind of even taste like salad!" HA HA! I guess he thought that would put me over the edge.

We hope you are all having a great week!

Hasta luego!
Tonya