Week 3, Wednesday

No school today because it is La Mercè, the festa major de Barcelona.  The kids have been in school for less than 3 weeks, and they have already had two holidays.  We didn't do much today as the weather was iffy, and Bob had to work as usual because his office is outside of Barcelona in Rubi.

We did watch the fireworks and huge audio-visual presentation highlighting some of the important event in the past 300 years since Catalunya became a part of Spain.

Since we didn't venture into Barcelona this year, here are some photos from last year's La Mercè when we did go downtown and witnessed first hand how crazy busy it was.

Video presentation in Plaça Sant Jaume

Watching the dragon procession

One of the many dragons that danced down La Rambla

It was also a free museum day, so we went to Cosmo Caixa - science museum

The sunken rainforest was amazing

The kids also decided to play in the water