http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/GDandSD/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from GDandSD en-us Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:51:08 +0000 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:51:08 +0000 Dear family and friends Well the adventure continues...we spent some time on the beach yesterday after an overcast day cleared up and bathed us with sun. The water was a nice temperature and the waves were coming in strong and gracefully. I have not been in the ocean for nearly seven years it was a bit overwhelming. I am a strong swimmer but I felt small and afraid. The day for me didn' http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-201178.html OOOH Boy yesterday was packed with two of the most impressive things we have seen everi think we have agreed on that. first the Bascillica de Segrada Familia. This Building which has been under construction for about the last 100 years or so is absolutely amazing. no pictures or postcards can do the structure justice. This is aplace you have to see to believe. no longer can you walk u http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-200402.html Alright I have finally been able to get both the internet connection in our apartment working and a power converter so my laptop doesn't blow up. And here we are ready to inform. We arrived yesterday around 430 local time at the airport took a taxi to the Born distict and got to our apartment by about 6ish. the travel time overall ended up being close to 20hrs. including the airport layov http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-199914.html Tis will be the fist entry in our travelblog for our trip to barcelona. we are currently finishing up our last minute things getting the dogs situated changing money all that jazz. Evie is going to take us to the airport tis afternoon and then we're offgd and sd http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Ohio/Cleveland/blog-199312.html