Barcelona day 3

I am behind in writing, so I don’t remember all the details of the day. We choose a couple of museums that were going to be free to visit. I hate to be rude, but staring at art piece after piece gets boring and so not paying doesn’t make you feel guilty for going quickly or bypassing some of the ugly stuff. First we went to the Picasso Museum. It was interesting to see some of his early works and sketches from school and the museum did a great job with the chronology of his life and showing the work while explaining where he was. What the museum lacked was any of the famous pictures you had actually seen before. They didn’t really have any of his works that you knew, but there are some other museums down the road we are going to that should have them. Then we headed to the museum of modern art that was supposed to be free but wasn’t, which was just as well. We then headed to the Park Guell to see the mosaic lizard Gaudi did. It is funny because there are two buildings there that were supposed to be model homes for this community that Gaudi had the idea to build, except when people came to see it, they thought the design was crazy and they weren’t interested, so it is now a park. It has the lizard you see in all the pictures of the city and a beautiful bench that is tiled that overlooks the homes that must be 200 or more feet long. Well of course we start at the far end of the park from where the lizard is so we are tromping around, it’s hot and we really don’t know where we’re going. Heading down hill to where we see crowds I had to fall. It really was inevitable because I hadn’t really fallen this trip. I did scrap my arm on the spiral stairs at the Sagrada Familia, but I caught myself so that really didn’t count. They think that they can just take slippery rocks and stick the uneven ones together and call them stairs. So I slipped on the edge and slide down a couple ones before catching myself and trying to shield my camera from the fall. Of course it made this huge noise and everyone was looking, so I hopped up as quickly as possible. I guess it hurt my pride more than anything, but my tail bone hurt too and luckily I had the sun shield thing on the end of my camera, so it made it safely through the fall as well.
After all that we did find the lizard and the house and got our pictures. We walked up a couple more streets to see some of the other homes Gaudi created and then headed toward the water to grab dinner before calling it a day. We have a few hours in the morning before we journey to the airport for Seville.