Pughnited Kingdom: Gaudi

So I've put all our Gaudi pictures in this one entry, and we're pretty much getting to a point where I don't remember which days we went where, but all four of these sites were on different days, I think. Or at least two or three days. Antoni Gaudi is a famous architect from Catalonia, and did a bunch of work for Barcelona in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He's influenced by Gothic architecture, but has his own special style. You can look him up on the internets.

Here is me taking a picture of the Sagrada Familia.

This is the Sagrada Familia, which is a giant, unfinished church, or maybe it has a more specific churchy term--basilica, I think. He started designing the crypt in 1883, taking over for someone else, then went on to the rest of the thing. He was wicked Catholic, so he was really devoted to the project. It has 18 towers, to represent apostles, evangelists (probably not the tv kind), Mary, and Jebus. I looks a lot like those sand castles you make where you take wet sand and let it drip down to make thin towers.

Here are some pictures of Ed and I, enjoying the photo op.

Come on now. This is serious.

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jebus:

When Gaudi died in like 1926, this thing wasn't even a quarter done. It's supposed to be finished in 2026, hence all the cranes and such.

This is some Golden Guy. Is it Jebus? I just don't know.

It's a well-known fact that after the defeat of the Empire, the Imperial Stormtroopers travelled to Earth, to protect Jebus and stuff. But they sucked at it, of course.

You can go inside the church, and someone said it looks like the inside of a tree in there. But we got there just as the place was closing for the day, and I'm pretty glad. We might have felt obligated to go inside, and it was wicked expensive, like 18 euros, I think. I bet I would have felt severely ripped off.

Across the street from the church was a little pond, with a Trash Island in the middle of it, for some reason. There were no public bathrooms around.

On some sunny day we went to Parc Guell, which was originally supposed to be a housing development, but it didn't work out, I guess. This is the entrance. I'm acting excited.

This is a little area with a mosaic ceiling and a bunch of pillars.

Best picture from the trip? Ed said it illustrates my insanity quite well, and he was showing it to his friends.

This is like a columny cave that curves to the left after a second.

This is a view from an uphill trail we were on.

Another view from the trail. This one looks like a chess, uh, bishop?

This is us trying to make shadow art, but I don't remember what we were trying to make here. We blow at this art.

I'll let this one speak for itself.

I think this is from the top of the trail, where there was a rock plateau that I climbed.

This is the base of that plateau.

These must be from the top of it.

Look ma, I can see the Sagrada Familia from here.

Ed was not comfortable climbing the plateau. This is him acting scared.

Nearby, there was an Asshole. He looked like an Idiot, and played "amusing" music that either he made up on the spot, or wrote to sound like he did.

Here is the famous lizard that is represented in chocolate at the chocolate museum. It's near the entrance, but we missed it the first time we passed, probably because it was covered in tourists. We didn't take any pictures beside it because of that. Its mouth is a little fountain.

There is a Gaudi Museum in the park, which used to be Gaudi's house for his last 20 years, but we didn't go into it. There's also supposed to be one other house in the park, but I don't know if anyone lived/lives in it or what. Look it up.

This is me eating a snackie on some bleachers, after the park.

This building we just saw at random, and probably walked by a few times, since it was near the subway entrance. I don't know what it's called or what it's for, but it's totally suite.