Spain

So we started off with a bang. Our flight from Munich to Rues, a town right outside Barcelona, was delayed by an hour. That hour then caused us to be late arriving at the airport so we missed the bus to the train station. And then the last train was going to make us get in there around 11:30 at night. So we ended up taking a cab ride from the airport to our hostel in Barcelona. It wasn't the cheapest thing in the world but between the five of us it wasn't too bad.

That next day was our one full day in Barcelona. For anyone that has been there before our hostel was located about two blocks away from the Gaudi House. We spent the day mainly just wondering around the city stumbling upon things as we found them. We did however see three of the big name things to do there (the Cathedral, the Sagrada Familia, and the Picasso Museum). The Picasso Museum was really rather interesting just because he didn't start out as the Picasso we know him as today and it was just really cool to see his progression and to just see how he changed in his paintings. The Sagrada Familia was something else too. It might be one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen. Either way it was a successful day minus the outcome of the Switzerland/Spain game. It put a little bit of a damper on the afternoon that is for sure.

The next morning we got up a little early and we packed up and headed off to a small beach town called Tarragona. We all got to our hotel and literally within about an hour we were already on the way to the beach. It was beautiful weather so it was perfect to go to the beach. Plus it was very relaxing which was another major plus. The next day we woke up and again we were on the way to the beach. This time though we had a date planned at the Kabana (that is how it was spelled) for the US and Slovenia game. The Kabana also had very good kebabs. Either way though at the half way point we were all very depressed with the outcome of the game thus far. Then the second half happened and the whole beach could tell we were Americans. We weren't very happy though about that blown call that would have won us the game but we won't go into detail about that here.

The last day we got up and went to the airport to fly back home. Here though we had a 3 and half lay over for our flight. Oh thank you RyanAir. I'm not sure if I'll be able to use them again haha. All in all though we managed to get our way back to Flornece and it feels amazing.

Trent