Where to begin about this past weekend! Due to the holiday on Monday, we had an extra day for our adventures! Xavier invited us over to his house in Cambrils on Saturday where we enjoyed a nice cookout together with plenty of food. After dinner we headed to the Cambrils beach for some swimming and volleyball. On Sunday we visited the Picasso museum, the Sagrada Familia, shared tapas near La Rambla, and celebrated Mickey's birthday at midnight! To continue the birthday celebration (Mickey's birthday on Monday and Kayla's on Tuesday) we decided to take a trip to Girona, Spain for our day off on Monday.
This weekend was full of traveling mishaps. We learned to always look up directions and maps prior to leaving for our destination. Also, we know now that anytime our destination lies somewhere off of the general map of the trains, we need to find the additional outlier maps. Because we failed to do this the first time on our trip to Girona, we missed the R11 train (because we didn't recognize its destination) and instead boarded the R2 train. This turned out to be okay in the end because we took the trains in the right general direction, however because of this we had to switch trains 2 more times than necessary and arrived in Girona over an hour later than we would have if we would have boarded the correct train. Despite all of these learning moments, we still kept a positive and light attitude and had a great time in Girona! As it turns out, Girona's soccer team was just promoted to La Liga (the Primera Division) and they were hosting a huge celebration that evening. Our time in Girona was more exciting than we could have even anticipated and it was a great way to celebrate Mickey's and Kayla's birthday!
Fun fact of the day: Gaudi's Sagrada Familia has been in construction phase for over 100 years and is 70% completed. Their goal for completion is 2026 which still seems very ambitious!
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