Barcelona - Day 3 Morning - The Best for Last!

 On our walk to Park Guell, we saw this man near our apartment.  He had a big sack of bread and was filling the bag with water from a spout on the corner.  We thought that was odd.  Then as we were walking through a park area all of the sudden pigeons started flying toward him.  He had a bag of nice, wet bread for them.  It was obvious that he did this regularly because they recognized him and flocked to him for their food!

Park Guell--originally conceived as a suburban estate is now an amazing park.  It is difficult to capture how interesting and beautiful it is in pictures. 

Here is the famous mosaic lizard of Parc Guell!

Here I am looking out the window of the gift shop.

So beautiful!  I love these mosaics.  Inside this area below were vendors selling jewelry, little mosaic lizards, and fans!  Grace found one she wanted, Jason was making a "deal" with the vendor and then suddenly all the vendors scooped up their goods and were off and running!  It took only moments for them to disappear.  Apparently it is illegal for them to sell there.  The funny thing is that minutes later they were back again.  We stood around and a few minutes and they were off again.  It was pretty entertaining.  Jason figured out that there was an undercover cop who would alert the police!  Grace was very, very disappointed that she didn't get her fan.  In fact, the fan man didn't run fast enough and was caught by the police.  Jason was watching the whole scene.  They took his bag of fans and he was bold (stupid) enough to try to grab them back from the police.  The policeman reached for his club and then the man ran.

This building is the former home of Gaudi.  It is now the Casa-Museau Gaudi.

The bench we are sitting on is VERY long and curves around a big open area in the park.  The mosaic work is just beautiful.  (Have I used that word before?)

After the park, we rode the Metro and walked to a tapas restaurant that Emily had read about.  There were cold and hot tapas....very delicious.  We also enjoyed a couple of pitchers of sangria.