Thursday, February 24, 2000

Barcelona, Spain
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L'Aquarium

These are in front of L'Aquarium de Barcelona.

The Aquarium opened in 1995 and they were working on some other areas that will open this summer (like a huge whale that you walk into to see the exhibit).

Inside the aquarium are 21 different tanks of all different fish (hmmm, just like the name implies) and the last part you walk through is one of those tunnels (80 M) that goes under the tank with the sharks and other fish.



The shark is out front also, and the bubble thing that Mackenzie is in is inside the Aquarium, upstairs in the 'Explora' area for kids. It's a tunnel that you can crawl through and you come up in the Marsh type area.

They had lots of interesting things to look at and play with in the hands on part of Explora.


They had this turtle and a frog to sit on, a small tank with an octopus, a deep diver scalvage crane, a waterfall with a tube that you could crawl through, and other stuff. We ate our lunch/supper in the cafeteria inside the Aquarium near the windows that looks out over the harbour.

From L'Aquarium we headed to the Picasso Museum. It's in a really old walkway with cobblestones and it's so cool. By the time we came out it was too dark to get a good picture of the street. The Museum is a lot of Picasso's early stuff with sketches and doodles.

Friday, February 25, 2000
Casa Mìa (La Pedrera)


Let's see, oh yeah, well we started off with the birds again...

Then we headed up to the Casa Milà or La Pedrera (The Quarry)

Casa Milà was the last great civil work that Gaudí worked on before dedicating all of his time to La Sagrada (we see that later today). It was started in 1906 and finished in 1910.


This is inside the building in the courtyard looking up.

Then we started up the stairs to see one of the apartments. Everything in this building is curved, the are no straight lines anywhere. It is beautiful.


First we stopped in an apartment that is decorated in the style of the first decades of the twentieth century.

This is the dining room and part of the kitchen.

They turned another apartment into a small exposition showing the social, cultural and technical transformations of that time, it was very interesting.

On to More Casa Milà