I've been neglecting this again, sorry about that! I think as my time in London is winding down I am forgetting more and more about writing in this - I'll try to be better about it, I know how much my mom enjoys reading it (hi mom). I went to Barcelona this past weekend with Natalie - we had a wonderful time walking around the city, seeing all of the tourist sites, and eating way to much tapas.

We arrived late of Friday night after our flight was delayed, and quickly checked into our hotel, ordered room service and put on a movie. We both miss having a TV so we took full advantage of it during the weekend.

On Saturday we met up at Park Guel with some of our friends from London who also happened to be in Barcelona - it was an absolutely gorgeous park that gave us amazing views of the city - even if I did have to climb a freaking mountain to see it. After we decided to head over to Las Ramblas for some last lunch and sight-seeing. From there we all wanted to head back to the hotel - however non of us knew what bus we needed to take, the metro didn't go to that part of the city, and all 5 of us couldn't ride in one cab. Since no one wanted to pay for a taxi (i offered but i didn't want to pay for 2 cabs and no one would pay for the second) we started walking. We walked, and walked, and walked for over 2 hours, well over 5 miles I'm sure along the beach until we reached our hotel. So basically, on Saturday, I climbed a mountain and walked forever - not my idea of a fun vacation. Oh well, i earned my ice cream that night :]

On Sunday I basically slept the day away, until 4pm, before deciding to wake up and go out with everybody for food. This time I decided to pay for our taxi's back to the hotel because 3 of our friends needed to get to the airport, and even though they weren't willing to pay for their own cabs to get their stuff and make it to the airport on time, there was NO WAY I was walking home again and I didn't feel comfortable taking a taxi alone. Long story short, I paid for 2 taxis to take us to our hotel, my friends left, and Natalie and I decided to stay in for the rest of the night and watch TV - exciting stuff I know.

We had all day Monday since our flight didn't leave until 10:55pm so we were wanting to finish up our sight-seeing and go over to the shoe store that Lindsey had told me about (it was closed on Saturday for May Day and closed Sunday, since it was Sunday). Well, fyi, its not open on Monday's either - bummer! So sadly, I did not accomplish my goal of buying super cute flats in Barcelona, it just wasn't meant to be. Rain however, was meant to be. It rained from the moment we woke up until the moment our plane took off that night, NOT fun. We ended up walking around a shopping mall for a few hours. This turned out to be my favorite part of the trip because I saw an ADORABLE westie in H&M named lupe that was 3 months old and SO SO SO CUTE. It made me miss Scout way too much, but I pet it and gave it kisses anyways - LOVE IT. After that it was only 3:30 and we still had 5 hours of nothing to do, so we went back to the hotel which was holding our bags and planted ourselves on the couches in the lobby bar. I ended up taking a nap, natalie used their gym for a shower, and I kept ordering diet coke so they wouldn't ask us to leave. That is where we stayed until we left for the airport. We finally made it home around 1:30am that night and went straight to bed, we were SO tired.

Today I got to hang around Nido not doing much until I met up with Chelsey for dinner at Benihana's - it was delish. In other exciting news, my cousin Alise had a BEAUTIFUL baby girl today named Natalie Gayle Hagan, 7 lbs 7 oz, 20 inches long. Both baby, mother, daddy, and big brother Spencer are doing great. I can't wait to go home this summer and meet them - she is GORGEOUS. CONGRATULATIONS ALISE & KEVIN, i love yall!

Other than that I just have to go to class tomorrow, Friday, and Monday then I'm finished with the exception of final examinations. Hopefully i'll be able to update this sometime soon!

-audrey