Spring Break Highlights

Last week was spring break so Katherine and I decided to hit up the iberian peninsula and see the cities of Barcelona, Lisbon, and Porto. We were hoping for beautiful weather and time at the beach but had to deal with cold wet rain for most of the trip. We made the most of it and had fun anyways.

Our trip started in Barcelona. First stop: The MAGIC Fountain! It is a fountain that plays music and does a little water show- tourist trap? you betcha! But it was cool and it was a nice night so we enjoyed the show.

Katherine is a flying fish.
We happened upon a good friday parade. And this was the jesus float- for more details head over to my picasa photo albums- i'll put the link at the bottom of the post
Then I turned into a dinosaur and ruined the flow of my blog- it happens.
Some more participants in the procession. 
The virgin mary float. LOTS of candles.
Barcelona has it's own arc de triumf (lacking the Ph but it happens) 
Gaudi architecture is present all over the city from parks
To his giant temple/cathedral which is still being built.
Whitwhicky got attacked by a lion
Gaudi designed this cool looking lizard fountain

Next we went to lisbon...
This is an example of an Azueljos (I most likely didn't spell that right) but it is a mosaic/tiling that is present in a lot of portuguse architechture
That's a view of the city that we found at the top of the tallest hill in lisbon where the sao jeorge castle was.
Danger- be on the alert for slide-tacklers 

This is a crazy summer home built in sintra portugal- about 30 minutes away from lisbon. It had a really cool garden.
This is the cool looking castle where the last king of portugal lived. Of course on top of a hill.
This is whitwhicky looking out over the bay and the not golden gate bridge.
The inside of the monastery. It was really pretty.

Me infront of the tower of belem. 

Like I said more details are in the picasa photos found on this link . I don't know why some of the pictures are small on the blog but they're all big here. 

And I haven't uploaded the pictures of Porto yet- sorry with all these pictures my computer is running low on memory! I'll get around to it later though I promise.