Laurence Clan pickup @ the airport & Barcelona!

After getting to the airport early we stood by arrivals with our little plate saying “Laurence”. It was so great to see them and they seemed happy to be going to a spot where they could get some sleep. We had a REAL breakfast with bacon that didn’t look strange. It was s wonderful! When Anne gave us our bags for the cruise it was like Christmas morning (Thank you Sharon, Anne and Jennifer for the great packing!!)

We spent the afternoon walking Las Ramblas, the famous pedestrian only street where you can eat, shop, or even buy chickens. It’s crazy! We arrived on the weekend that Barcelona was celebrating their city with bands and parades. The parade that we saw was full of different drum squads, each sharing their cadences with the massive number of people out and about that day.

Later in the day we stopped for our first Barcelona meal - which ironcially turned out to be at an Italian restaurant! Anyway, we enjoyed the food and catching up the the Laurence clan - we certainly had several stories to tell. But we were all tired at this point - we’d all either just flown 8 hours and were running on over 30 hours awake or had just been on a train all day the previous day - so we went back to our hotel for a good night’s rest & to get ready for boarding our cruise the next morning!

Next stop: Med Sea!