Half way through Euro tour. It doesn't feel at all like we've been traveling for 8 days. And it's even less believable that in 8 days my time with these wonderful crazy people will be up and we'll have to say goodbye. To some of them forever.
Today we went to the Gaudi mosaic gardens. My mom had told me about this place before Euro tour and I had looked it up on line, so I was especially looking forward to seeing it. Wow, what an amazing place. Austria is a beautiful country, but it’s a very stoic country. Spain on the other hand is so lively, with vibrant colors, clashing designs. Gaudi’s mosaics display that Spanish feel so well. Each of the tiles alone are stunning, and then broken and pieced back together creates just a whole new exciting feel. It’s kind of like a little amusement park there. After a few hours of more photo taking we headed into the city again. This time with Emilie, Evan, and Tia. We ventured through the winding side streets and found some really interesting shops including a hand-made guitar workshop where a guy was sitting inside carving a piece of wood into a guitar, and a little hipster, vintage cupcake bakery. Plus we got all our tourist shopping done! Later they headed to the beach and Emilie and I went back to the hotel to drop stuff off and rest for a bit before dinner.
After dinner they took us to see an amazing fountain show! There were tons of people gathered around the fountain and the water would light up and change direction and patterns to the music. It was so much fun. And being exchange students we of course were up on the ledge dancing and singing along at the top of our lungs. It was also a pretty emotional evening. The tears were already pouring from some people. These are some of the most amazing people I've met in my entire life. We've seen each other grow up, and been there for each other when we've needed a shoulder to lean on. We've become such a family, and though we try to ignore it, imagining having to break up that family in a week is just heartbreaking. I can tell Bregenz is going to be really hard to deal with.
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