As soon as we walked out of the train terminal in Place Catalunya yesterday, we saw a big group of people marching toward the Bank of Spain. It was the PAH (Mortgage Victims Platform) protesting the number of home repossessions in Spain.
We grabbed a quick lunch and headed to the science museum, Cosmocaixa. We had planned on just spending a couple hours here so that we could also see Montjuic, but there was so much to see and do, that we stayed for the entire afternoon.
This was a really cool exhibit. There were five stations that represented various bodies of water--the Bering Sea, Dead Sea, Mediterranean, The Carribean and one other. The kids had to put their hand on a pad to feel the temperature of that sea, and then they put their hand under a laser and it squirts out water that they're supposed to taste to determine how salty that sea is.
The olive oil exhibit...Ken's favorite. This exhibit was about how olive oil from different parts of the Mediterranean tastes differently--one had a green almond flavor, one had a tomato taste to it, another had an apple taste. Ken tried each one at least three times and went through an entire stack of napkins trying to get her hands clean.
Examples of various Mediterranean markets...
Morocco
Turkey
Spain
France
Baylor and Emory's favorite thing was this computer portal where a doctor on the screen taught them all about blood--everything from how a nurse draws blood, what it looks like under a microscope and the difference between red and white blood cells.
And the worst part of my whole vacation...
This thing-
Seriously, what IS that thing?!?! A rat? A pig? No idea, but I liked the science museum until we got to this creature...The kids went BANANAS when he got up and started walking around. Disgusting.
Loved our time in Barcelona! I will definitely miss waking up to this
