Exploding with Happiness!: In Closing

Saturday morning, Steve and I headed to the Barcelona airport for our flight home. All went smoothly (well, our flight from London to LAX got delayed for an hour or so, but no big deal) and we are now home.

Before leaving Barcelona, I took one last little tourist excursion, visiting La Boqueria, the big covered marketplace off La Rambla near our apartment. Laura had said it was amazing and indeed it was. There were dozens of stands selling all kinds of beautiful produce, seafood, meat, baked goods, candy – pretty much anything edible. Since we were leaving, all I bought was some fruit for our breakfast.

The kids spent a relatively quiet day in Barcelona. Evan went shopping for souvenirs and all three of them had another huge sandwich at Bó de B, the terrific sandwich shop we visited our first day.

Now (Sunday) Laura is studying for her exams, Sara is already in Paris (she took a train from Barcelona this morning and met the friend that she’ll be traveling with for the next month), Evan is on a plane bound for San Francisco and Steve and I are back in Manhattan Beach. Since we had no groceries at home, we went out to get breakfast burritos this morning. Although we had a wonderful vacation and will treasure our memories of it fondly for years to come, it was nice to eat in our own backyard.