My very great friend Ana Marie otherwise known to some as “Muffy” flew from Miami to visit me in Alicante and invited me to the U2 concert in Barcelona... We decided to stay a couple of days in the city of Barcelona since neither of us had ever been. We left by train on the morning of June 30th and arrived to our hotel to find out that there was a problem with our rooms and had to be transfered to another hotel room..

Once settled in we got ready for the concert and our adventure began on the metro full of thousands of fans who also headed to the Camp Nou stadium. Once there the excitement was obious and there were more people than you would think would fit in this stadium.. We finally got in and sat down with beer in hand to watch the concert.

The last time I had seen U2 in concert was about 20 years ago in Madrid when it was my brother who was supposed to go with my cousin but got sick at the last minute and gave me his ticket..And let me tell you they rocked this time as much as back then. They played a lot of their new songs and many of their oldies..

The stadium was completely sold out and there were people everywhere. On the way out we had to find our way to the metro with a million people trying to get in.. a great adventure I will never forget.. Thanks Ana Marie!!!!

You can view all the pics HERE. 

To be continued………..

Marco fell yesterday and hit his head with the corner of the radiator and got a huge “chichon” what a huge bump in the head is called here in Spain. It looked like the sort of bump that happens to cartoon characters when they are hit with a hammer or something of the sort..I was petrified so I took him to the doctor but he assured me that he would be fine.

I guess his big hard head is good for something.. The poor thing did not have a good day, he went on a school trip to Terra Natura, where he told me in his own words “I saw a big CACA of elephant, a blue en venenosa, how to you say that in english frog, a lion who was asleep, and some bichitos very little, and we walked a lot, I was hot, and I ate a big bocadillo of chorizo”. (do you like all the spanglish) And on the bus ride back he barfed all over himself and his friend Carlos who started to yell at the top of his lungs for someone to come help his friend.

Overall, not a good day for Marco, and for me..

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Bella went on her first field trip to a the MARQ museum (Archaeological Museum) right here in Alicante. She was thrilled to be able to go on the BIG bus without Mama and Papa. She felt very grown up!..

I tried to ask her what she saw and to please give me a brief description of the trip and this is all I got:

“We went on the BIG bus and I sat next to Marina, we met Llumiq (I think, from what I saw on their web page that llumiq is some sort of animated animal that gives them a tour of the museum). Llumiq was very nice, they gave us a ballon, and we made put two shells with clay together”

I asked her if she saw any prehistoric things, to which she replied:

“I told you, I went on the Big bus, they gave me a balloon and I met Llumiq, that is a lot, I’m very tired!”

So there you have it Bella’s first field trip…