Barcelona, food and fun !!!

I'm just back from my wunderbar trip to Barcelona with 6 friends :-) 7 girls travelling together, fun fun fun :-D We had an apartement facing the famous Gaudí church Sagrada Familia (which we dubbed Sígraða fjölskyldan in icelandic, means the ever-horny family). The church was lit up at night, very cool indeed. We bought tickets to a tourist bus that carried us around the city so we got to see the major sights. Then we walked down las Ramblas, the famous shopping pedestrian street. Barcelonians were celebrating the end of summer with a 3 day festival, which ment that a lot of street artists were preforming, large groups of people walked around playing drums and still others were dressed up as lobsters or dancing inside huge plastic bubbles :-) The festival had it's downsides, it meant that a lot of things were closed, only restaurants remaining open. We went into Sagrada Familia and took an elevator up to one of the towers, then walked the more than 400 steps down ! A very narrow staircase ! The church is only half finished, still they have been building since 1882 !!! Being 7 girls, we went shopping till we dropped too :-) Not to mention all the good food we ate ! Mmmmmmmmmm ! I look forward to our next trip !