Day 15 - Barcelona

Hola! Estoy in Barcelona! Omg arrived in Barcelona today and I am obsessed with the city already! I love the feel, the weather and the shooppinngg!!

Anyway it was a 6 hour drive from Denia for us to get here and once we arrived we went to the "Sagrada Familia" which is huge Roman Catholic church that was designed by an Catalan architect, Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). The project was put on hold during the Spanish Civil War, but resumed progress in the 1950's and is currently being worked on today. It is said to be finished in 2026.

This a picture of outside, it is HUGE!

The inside is absolutely beautiful! The details are amazing!

That afternoon we went downtown and I did a little shopping at H&M and got some cute stuff :) Then we had a delicious dinner at this little italian place and I had some yyuummyy carbonara! Anndd for dessert Erin and I got a chocolate glory!

That evening we went out dancing and got to see the Barcelona night life that never quits! We took the Metro and let me tell you I am really getting the hang of that thing, but publication transportation is still not on my good list lol! Inside the Metro Station is this GIGANTIC vending machine!

 I love the liveliness of the people here! There was even this ssuuppeerr old guy who danced the night away, it was hilarious! I am obsessed with the Shakira song Loca! They played lots of great music and we danced till our feet were begging us to stop! lol

Here is me and Erin, now for the oollddd guy! lol

LOL! Love it!!


Looking for fame in Spain,
Rachel :)

Day 14 - Denia

Hola people!! Hope everyone had a wonderful day!! :) Today was like Friday for me bbeeccauuuseee tomorrow we are leaving for Barcelona for the weekend! Yaayy! I am so excited! Erin, Andre, Brittany and I spent ALL afternoon at the beach and it was so wonderful and relaxing! We had our little lounge chairs and an umbrella, so it was rocking like a cabana! lol!

Our little cabana, how cute!!

I made Erin do a photo shoot for me! :) Look how preciosa! hahaha

Then I did some drawing in the sand :)

I love you Ro and wish you were here!! xoxox

Then we watched the sunset and it was gorgeous! Love these girls!

Looking for Fame in Spain,

Rachel :)

Day 13 - Denia

Hello friends/fans!

Today has been full of kidddss and studying! I had class this morning and then we helped out with the kids camp here at Alfa y Omega and they are SO cute! I have the 3-5 year olds and they are just precious! Today we colored birthday cakes, played on the playground and went swimming. I felt like I was back being a camp counselor.

I colored with Ethan and he and I are just two peas in a pod because he wanted his whooolleee cake to be chocolate! I said what color do you want to make your cake and he said "brown, I love chocolate!" and then he said he wanted the candles to be chocolate too hahaha! too cute!

Ethan in his cute hat coloring with me!

All finished! He kept acting like he was going to eat it and it was adorable! He is only 4 and speaks spanish and english!!

Usually I hang out with Pablo, so he came over and took a picture with me too! He is presh and usually wears his hair slicked to the side looking like a future senator! :)

Pablo is adorbable!

Then the kids went swimming and they were so cute!

Precious!!! Now for my favorite little kiddos!

This is Diego, Juan Pablo, anndd Alejandro!

They are so cute and are always cracking me up! Especially Diego with his adorable outfits, you would love them Austin!

Looking for Fame in Spain,

Rachel :)

Day 12- Denia

Hola hola hola!

So today was a nice little day! :) A lot of people planned to go the beach, but since I got so much sun yesterday I decided to do the next best thing..... SHOP! :)

Erin, Brittany, Lauren and I went downtown an into tons of little shops! On the walk there we passed this Pringle's Machine thing and it really intrigued me lol! It was so weird!

See! Anyway we went to a BUNCH of shoe stores they love those here! Heather you would be in Heaven, but probably spent like a billion dollars... i mean euros ;)

Erin is going to buy some of those Spanish style Toms!

We went to a make up store and Lauren and I found some nail polish with the coolest bottles ever! She got a dark red and I can't wait to use it! :)

Anyway then we went to a bunch of places with dresses, so I was in trouble! lol Actually, I was so good and just got dos on sale! :) But this one lady who worked at this store was super rude and I almost didn't get the dress, but it was too cute to pass! lol

Yay shopping! LOVE YOU ALL!!


Looking for Fame in Spain,
Rachel :)

Day 11 - Denia

Hello fans! hahaha, just kidding! I do love how people read my blog because it makes me feel famous ;) 

Annyyywaayyy I am going to write A LOT more today, because my office has received some complaints stating that my entries were getting short and lame, but I don't want to drop any names...heather! But in response to that complaint, I have been super busy and haven't had a lot of time to spend on the computer.

Ok, so Monday Monday! Well we had clase in the manana and I had my first test, which went pretty well :) then to celebrate we had a fabbuullouuss day!

After lunch Lauren, Erin, Valenica and I headed down to spend the afternoon on la playa! We walked, which is about a 30 minute walk (friends you should be proud) , but on the way there we ALL had to ppeeee SO bad! I of course wanted some ice cream so we used the bathroom there, which if you think about it pretty much means that my love for ice cream saved the day! 

We got to the beach and seriously the weather could not have been any better!! We rented some lounge chairs from the eye candy bartender (don't worry ro, good looking but bartender?? we all know how expensive i am lol) any way we literally were out in the sun for almost 4 hours and booyyy did I get some sun! We had an iHome and were jamming to Shakira, Enrique, and Camila so we def blended in ;) hahaha! 

After the beach we decided to head to the grocery store pick up some snacks, because this getting home late and having access to no food, is not working for us lol! We went back to "Consum" and I got some yummy treats, but while Lauren and I were waiting for Erin and Valenica to check out you will never guessed what happened!!!

Well, we were standing by the door waiting and this creeper looking guy walked like really fast past us out of the store and then this lady who worked at the store was running after him yelling "oye, oye!!" She got him to stop and then we saw him pull up his shirt and he pulled out 2 HUGE things of boxed juice from his PANTS! He was trying to steal, but got busted! (PS-Mea, i feel that is something that would happen to you lol!) It was crazy! I was stunned and they just took the juice and let him go, so different from America! Valencia was like "seriously, how lame why would you steal juice!!" lol!

That night we decided to keep with them enjoying ourselves so decided to go to this Irish Pub. We all looked so great because we had gotten so much sun!

At first I was not super excited to go to this Irish place, because the last time we went I didn't really like it, but last night was so fun! The bartenders loved us and they were playing all my right music, I'm talking Shakira - Loca Loca and this aaammazziinngg song called Fast 5, which if you haven't heard you should probably go look at RIGHT NOW! 

After Erin and I danced the night away as you see above we were so tired and decided to take a cab home, buuuttt first we were starving and wanted some food! Our taxi driver must have hated us because we made him take us to Burger King anndd McDonalds, but BOTH were closed :( Lucckkiillyyy I had snacks! lol ;) Anyway great day and night hope you liked this hurricane hunting heather! 

Looking for fame in Spain, 

Rachel :)

Day 10 - Denia

Hola! Today was Sunday so luckily we got to slleeeppp in :) yay! We had church at 11:30 and it was super interesting listening to the sermon in spanish, but it was a really cool experience!

The day was supppeerrr hot, but we went swimming to cool off and then spent the rest of the day, just relaxing and studying because we have our first examen tomorrow!

I didn't take any pictures today, so here are some good ones from the trip so far! :)

Some of the girls before our "Tren" experience! :)

Fun day at the beach! :)

Looking for fame in spain,

Rachel :)

Day 9 - Valencia

HOLA! Today we went to Valencia and it was amazing!

First we went to "The Cathedral of Valenica" and then we climbed the tower inside which was exhausting!! Didn't know we were paying for a work out!! lol!

Afterwards we got some time to walk around town and guess what I found?!?! A WOK TO WOK!!!

It was amazing and we ate there and the girls loved it!!

Then the second best part of the day we went to this Aquarium and got to see a dolphin show and ttoonnss of fish and other animals! It was a blast!!!

Looking for fame in Spain,
Rachel :)