Were on the bus on our way to Nice. The past couple of days have been crazy. We left Lucern to go stay in an old castle, which was in the middle of nowhere in France. Our room was massive it had Four beds. Everyone on the tour has been complaining about how there rooms are so tiny, but Kirst and myself have been exteremly lucky. We some how alway seem to get the nicest room. The castle was so cool, in summer time we can only imagine what the courtyard and pool area would look it. Inside the castle there was men in armour, old painting and the hallways had green lights like sleeping beauty. That night out entire group stayed in, and we played battle of the sexes. We split up and we made question that we thought the men or women wont be able to answer. Our question ranged from who was the first female pilot to questions about the Bachelorette. The guys questions ranged from what was on magnum IP licence plate to sports questions. They thought they could sneak one past us asking a question about hockey, it took allison 3 seconds to come up with the correct answer and after the game was over corrected them on dates of when it happened. Kirst knew that answer to who has the fastest train system in the world. We also knew the 2 other answers to the questions our team got right. The girl team ended up winning 8 bottles of wine and what we thought was going to be a relaxing night turned out not to be. We left early the next morning for Barcelonia, which is by far our favorite place we've been to yet.

Barcelona.. to say the least, the culture is amazing!! The beaches, mountains, architecture, street artists, souvenir shops and restaurants are all great. Knowing that we were definetley coming back Allison and I decided to take our day there easy and just soak up the sun. Instead of running around the city all day trying to see everything we walked down a street called Las Ramblas and then went to the beach. Las Ramblas is a street which runs down the center of Barcelona and is always packed with people eating, drinking or shopping. In the morning we checked out a bunch of its souvenir shops and had some amazing coffee. We eventually made our way down the street and to the christoper columbus monument, from there we had the most amazing view! I literrally stood there and took a picture of everything around me. On one side was the monument, on another was mountains, on another was the mediteranian see and the other side was the parliament buildings. We walked toward the water and spent some time on the boardwalk checking out the boats then found the beach. It was gorgeous, not quite warm enough to go swimming.. but as Allison had only ever been to BC seeing this kind of beach was really cool for her. I also loved it so we sat down there with a couple of people from our tour and before we new it, over an hour had gone by. We started working our way back up the street and found even more cool things, we decided that it was the kind of thing you had to do mulitple times before you got the full experience and decided we'd definately be back there. At about 230 we stopped at a patio restaurant for lunch (a very spanish thing to do) and I had spaghetti with seafood, Allison had tortellini... of course. We then continued walking, attempting to find a store that would sell a hair straightener, but failed. We got back on the bus and headed for the hotel to freshen up for the evening ahead.

Once again, we were incredibly lucky with our room! We had a huge bathroom and a huge balcony, our room even had a fridge. I had a nap on the lounge chair on the balcony and Allison skyped for a couple hours. While the rest of the group went to see a flamenco show we went out for a 9pm dinner and... then enjoyed a subway ride to the bar at which we were meeting up with everyone. As we had found out the night before, Spanish people have their own lifestyle and own time schedule. Lunch is long and late, dinner is small and late and most bars dont open till midnight, but dont even start to get busy until 130. Also, the spanish are alchoholics, they dont measure mixed drinks, they free pour. To make matters more interesting, they dont free pour about a shot, they fill up half the glass with booze and then top it off with mix. We learned quickly that one drink in Barcelona is not the same as one drink in Canada. After a great night out, we took a taxi back to the hotel and had a nice nap before breakfast. We then threw our remaining possesions into our bags and headed for the coach.

Now here we are, on our way to Nice. Tomorrow night we are going to the Monte Carlo Casino. Can't wait!!

Enjoy the snow Winnipeg :)