Barcelona during the day

After our huge dinner the night before, we all wanted to be slugs the next day but Barcelona was calling. It is a big city with lots of traffic and reminded both Greg and me of parts of Mexico City with the tall apartment buildings with balconies outside of each apartment and wooden shutters etc. above the shops. We elected to ride the Barcelona hop on hop off bus around. We saw a great deal of the city including the Casa Batllo designed by Gaudi (looks like a dinosaur roof and rather curvy exterior). We also went up to the top of the hill where the Olympic Stadium stands then down and around the city again. We got off and then headed for Katy's next stop...the CHOCOLATE MUSEUM. A bar of chocolate was our admission ticket. We went into lovely air conditioning (it was a little hot in Barcelona) and saw how chocolate is grown and made, how it came to Europe etc. The museum did not recount how the conquistadores killed Moctezuma and decimated the Aztecs in the conquest of the new world while they were drinking chocolate....hmmm. However, I digress.

We sat for a moment in the tiny cafe area and Katy had a cup of hot chocolate (like an expresso cup filled with dark sweet liquid chocolate. Greg and I had iced expresso (I needed a little pick me up and tea just wouldn't cut it!) We put some of Katy's hot chocolate in the iced expresso which made it quite tasty. Now all of us are wired and we scampered back to the ship and set said for the south of France.