Roman Ruins

Hola,
This past weekend we decided to take Alexa up on her offer to show us the Roman Ruins in Barcelona. Now, we'd found the wall before...turns out there is a whole town underground. Alexa went there on a trip with her Catalan Studies class. Another draw for the day was the promise of Chocolate and Churros, which she had on her trip as well.
The day started out with the usual complaining of the children who were convinced this was going to be BO-Ring. Still we persevered. Alexa led us through the Barri Gottic and at one point we were convinced she was going to get us lost when we saw a sign for the museum's entrance.
We paid our entrance fee and picked up our little recorded tour devices. I love these things because they are in English. There were some statues above ground and an explanation of the history but Alexa was anxious to get us down the elevator. We got on the elevator at 2009 and got off at 1 AD. I so love time travel that doesn't muss the hair.
We came out on a small porch overlooking the ruins that sat underneath the building. We walked along the catwalk stopping to examine the laundry rooms, spice rooms and wine making process that seemed to be very like a factory. There were tiled floors in some rooms and they found a few frescoes that were preserved. It was really incredible. Even Joe the loudest of the original protesters walked through muttering, "I can't believe I thought this would be boring." *grin*
We couldn't take pictures so we'll have to plan on stopping there when you all visit.
After we went to the Farggi's at the corner. It's an ice cream chain but this particular cafe had an assortment of goodies including the Churros and chocolates we were looking for.
Spanish hot chocolate is not like what you'd find in the states. It's more of a melted chocolate bar with some milk. It's definitely thicker and more flavorful than American hot chocolate. I've had it before and it's delicious but I'd never found it with the churros when I would have had time to enjoy it. Churros are long strips of fried dough sprinkled with sugar. They are delicious together with the hot chocolate, which you use to dip the churro in before you eat it. Yummy!
Jessica and Joe decided on ice cream instead of the fried treat. And everyone came away satisfied.

In other news, the three oldest are working on their school play. Jessica is much improved in her Spanish class, or so says the teacher when we stopped to chat this week. Only a few more weeks until the play. We're getting ready for our first visitors! (not to take away anything from Flat Stanley) Omi, Uncle Thom, Aunt Kim and Milo are arriving next Friday.
Hopefully next weekend's adventure will provide us with better photo opportunities but it might just end up being cleaning up the house for company.

Love you all!
~Bren