¡Hola!

Okay so we made it to Barcelona! It was a VERY long day of traveling. We flew from Phoenix to Philadelphia...stayed for a few hours and then flew to Munich where we had a 10 hour layover, that´s right no type-o there, a 10 hour layover. We decided to make the most of the time there and head into the city. We went to a few cathedrals, did a little window shopping (emphasis on the window...it is embarassing how much stuff we brought with us, we´re in no position to be adding on to our baggage), and got a brautwurst. It was a fun city, we would have spent more time exploring but we had a few things working against us. The first was the lack of sleep we had had during our long day of flights, and the second was the drastic change in temperature. We came from seventy degree weather to less than thirty degrees, yikes!! We had brought our coats and dressed warm but still felt unprepared for the freezing cold. We went back to the airport and slept for a little bit before our last leg to Barcelona. After getting all six of our bags, ridiculous I know, on the two trains and up and down all the train station stairs...we made it to our hostel at about one in the morning.

We spent the day today touring our new city, looking for an apartment, and testing some of the local food. We had some successes... we went to the beach, saw awesome architecture, and ate yummy food(nothing too exciting yet though, we are talking bread, ham, and cheese mostly and it´s hard to mess those up!). And we also had some not such successes... we still do not have a place to live. This is really nothing new to most of you who know me. I´m pretty sure I never had a place to live while at BYU until after I got there. We did go to see an apartment that we had found online that we liked today. After looking around the apartment and getting excited that it could be the one we found out the owner was looking for a minimum lease of six months and was not willing to negotiate...awesome! I´m sure we will find a great little apartment and I´m just glad that our hostel has a private bathroom, hot water, and computers... who knows we may be staying here all semester!

Sorry no pictures yet but I have taken some so I will post those as soon as a get a chance. We hope you are all doing well and I will continue to keep you posted while we are on this crazy Spanish adventure. ¡Adios!