DAY 77: Day One of Marisa's Spanish Getaway!

My best friend, Marisa Kiefaber, otherwise known as "Kief" came to visit me in Spain!!! She was here for 10 days, and 10 days only, so Lizzy and I planned as best we could so she could see as much of Spain as possible.

FIRST STOP: BARCELONA!! 

Lizzy and I dropped the kids off at school and then hopped on the metro to the train station. Hopped on a train to Barcelona, and BOOM BABY! We were there!! 

Kief and Lizzy

Now, Kief is quite the traveling. She spent 5 months teaching children in Peru when she was 18 and spent her second semester Sophomore year at UVM studying abroad in Mexico. Her minor was in Spanish because, obvi, she's good at it! Right before she came to Spain, she had just finished hiking the Appalachian Trail, and before that did a road trip around the country. So yeah, my best friend is pretty damn cool. 

So when we were deciding how to meet up with Kief, I was fairly confident in her abilities not only with the Spanish language, but also in how she travels. We gave her the directions from the airport to the hostel (which was not close by, might I add) and told her we would meet her there. Truthfully, I might be nervous telling anyone else to do this. Fear of them getting lost would really worry me. But with Kief, I never worry. 

Sure enough, about 15 minutes after we arrived, she strolled through the door of the hostel!! I practically tackled her, I was so excited. And this sweet angel carried around a 40 pound bag of goodies for us from our parents! I could have kissed her!

We knew she would be pretty jet lagged, so we spent a pretty lazy evening in Barcelona. We walked around past one of the Gaudi Museums and came across the Barcelona Cathedral. We watched as these dancers spun around in front of it inside of these giant hoolah-hoops. It sounds really weird, but it was actually quite amazing to watch. 

We continued down to the water front and ate dinner and watched the sun set. We kept walking around- found a park, more cathedrals, more Gaudi stuff (more on that later), ate ice cream, got sangria. Typical mellow evening in Spain!

The one and only: KIEF!