Saturday yet another new missionary arrived at the train station, and while picking him up who should we run into but Spencer Rowan, midway through his European tour! He was checking the metro map to figure out how to get a metro to the mission home when we spotted him!
After orienting newly arrived Elder West, we still had time for a lovely visit to Parc Guell in the afternoon.
The Palau de la Musica is one of the most spectacular buildings in a city known for its spectacular buildings. Tours of the building are very expensive, but Jamin found a very inexpensive concert at the Palau on Saturday night. The dance concert was average, but the building was superlative! Unfortunately, photography is not permitted inside the hall.
Outside the Palau de la Musica
Food, of course, played a central role in the Rowan's visit. We had a lovely 3-course luncheon at Gresca in L'Eixample. The cold almond soup was the highlight, but the fresh tuna with spinach was a pretty good main course!
Sunday dinner was homemade paella. Jamin purchased the ingredients at the neighborhood market on Saturday while we were picking up the new missionary, and Sunday after Church the Rowans and Hna. Hinckley chopped and cooked.
Jamin pronouned the result as the best paella ever! It included artichoke hearts, chorizo, chicken, calamari, pulpo (octopus), shrimp and mussels.
4 comments:
HURRAY!! I am so glad the Rowan's are visiting Barc!
Looks like so much super fun!!! Wish we could have been there with all y'all!
Oh my gosh, that paella looks so yummy! A&J, will you make that when you come to UT? I can't wait till you get here!
That was so fun!!!
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