Our Big Anniversary Day

Well this is our big day! 30 years of being married! Who would´ve thought it? We started the day by sleeping in until 9:15AM. A luxury for us for sure. We tracked down some breakfast at a local department store called Ingles. It is really neat because it reminded us both of the old JL Hudson store downtown. It is 9 stories tall, with a cafeteria on the top floor, with a nice view of the city. It is so neat to see what a traditional department store "used" to look like, with a different type of merchandise on each floor. Our route today took us on the Bus Turista, a hop-on, hop-off tour bus thru the southern part of the city. A couple of the stops that we explored were the Spanish Village, picture below and then Montjuic.














Montjuic was very interesting as it is a part of the city where all the Jewish people were exiled to hundreds of years ago. There is a Jewish cemetary there now and today we were told that there are only about 3000-4000 Jewish people left in Barcelona.

Our very special activity was a 2 hour Segway tour around parts of the city. After a quick lesson on balancing, stopping, starting, and turning we were off with our guides. Both of us were a little nervous at first, seeing as how there are no horns on these things, and pedestrians, posts, curbs, trees, bikes and cars were all things we needed to avoid.
















It is definitely something we would do again, and will on this trip if we come across it in another city. After our Segway tour, we skadaddled over to Las Ramblas for an evening Flamenco show. As a special Anniversary treat we indulged in a scoop of Gelato following the Flamenco show.

It is an Anniversary that will hold lots of special memories for us in the years to come. Off to bed as another full day on Tuesday awaits us.

Sandy & Gary