Parc Güell

Hello family and friends :) Sorry we haven't been on top of posting. So here's an update on our last two weeks here. First, we went to Park Güell last weekend. Park Güell is a huge garden park on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barecelona. The park is full of architectural elements by the famous architect Antoni Gaudí. It was built between 1900 to 1914 and is one of the largest architectural work in Europe. It was beautiful. We have a lot of really cool pictures to post! Gaudí did a lot of mosaic pieces in the park as well as architectural pieces.

Entrance to the park

 

Mosaic pieces

 View of the city from half way up the park/mountain

 Gaudí's famous mosaic lizard fountain

Here are some pictures of Gaudí's architectural pieces throughout the park. First are some pictures of the escalators you have to take to get up to the top!

  View from the top

The view of La Sagrada Familia from the top of the mountain

 

Here's pictures of Gaudí's architectural work

Orange trees grow everywhere throughout the city!

As you can see, the park is beautiful. Erin really likes Gaudí's style. We got lucky entrance to the park is free, but next month the cost to enter the park is going to be 12 Euros. In other news, Erin got another class to teach (a children's class) and she got a babysitting job speaking English to a little 18 month old boy for two hours twice a week, which is very exciting. That brings her up to 13 hours of work a week :) And even more exciting news that we found out today- Rob went for an interview on Friday at a language school and he got the call back today offering him the job! So he will be working in a language school 4 hours a day doing a lot of private tutoring. So Rob will be working 16 hours a week :) which means savings will stay savings (what we have left in our U.S. bank accounts). Rob is nervous to start on Monday, but relieved to finally have some work. 

An update on trivia... we are pub quiz regulars now which is cool to have a "regular" bar/place to go where we know the bartenders and have friends who we meet there. We took 3rd place at our regular trivia bar (it was an extremely difficult quiz in our opinion), but we tried out a new bar for trivia on Thursday night and we WON!!! Winners at this trivia quiz receive a free bottle of Jagermeister :)

And last, but not least, we just booked our flights to PARIS for next weekend, which we are very excited about!! We both have never been there and it will be our first traveling experience here in Europe!