More of thanksgiving in barcelona

So the second half of the day, after Sagrade Familia continued to be awesome.  While it would have been so awesome to be home, this day was the second best option for sure.  At the end of Sagrada Familia, we got climb the back facade and look into the towers and look out over the city.  The sun was getting low so the lighting was really pretty.  In the distance we could see our next stop, Torre Agbar.

Hanging out near the top of the Sagrada Familia, looking over Barcelona

Torre Agbar

Stepping out of the Sagrada Familia, we were starving.  It was thanksgiving and we all needed a taste of home for lunch.  Guess what we saw right away?? A KFC!! I know, not spanish food, not authentic, not even that good in the US, but nonetheless it sounded delicious.  We figured chicken is close to turkey, and we can all get thankgiving-esque sides of mashed potatoes and coleslaw or whatever.  In fact, it was delicious and a lot of fun. Love me some fried chicken!

Our Thanksgiving Lunch table! Just like the pilgrims...almost

Just what we needed.  Mmm mashed potatoes, just like kfc at home.  Nowhere near as good as homecooked food, but it was fun

So after that we wandered over to the Torre Agbar.  This building is pretty cool and famous.  While it is an odd shape (cucumberish, or some might say phallic), the facade is really cool and the color makes it pretty interesting.  Plus it obviously stands out in the skyline as different than your typical skyscraper.

Crazy tower! Torre Agbar!

Sunset + cool colors + cool facade = perfect timing for photos

Close up of the facade

After visiting that it was time for a snack.  Pastriess!! At least for me.  Another random cream/honey pastry which I wasnt too sure what it was, but it was cool.  Plus we found a lot of ham chips?  Weird, but they actually tasted just like ham.  

Random snack, always good

Ham chips.  Im sure they will catch on in the us soon

Then we headed back to the tower to see the real spectacle when it is lit up at night.  While it was impressive in the daylight, it was even more impressive and stood out more at night.  I loved the way the colors worked and blended.  

Bah! so cool

Everybody loves cool lights

Now its time for Thanksgiving Dinner! I even got dressed up. No turkey and stuffing for us.  Instead we found a really nice place in a backstreet that looked pretty cool inside.  This was our night for authentic spanish food.  We wanted delicious Paella and sangria.  We had been warned the night before not to go anywhere that had photos of the Paella because that meant it was frozen.  And the places without photos usually cost like 20 euro just for paella.  So we were lucky we found this place.  It was much cheaper and we could see them actually putting our paella together and cooking it fresh.  Its basically this rice dish with seafood and saffron and its super awesome. Plus we had some awesome red wine sangria and tortilla chips. mmm. Happy thanksgiving dinner!

Chips and cheese appetizer, dont mind if i do

Thanksgiving Dinner! The best it could be without being home,

Seafood Paella! Id go back just for that!

Late night snack!  Thanksgiving was a long day, and since I couldn't stuff myself with turkey and stuffing, I had to have a snack after looking for discotecas at night.  Luckily, the Kebab places are open late.  I had a delicious falafel one.  Basically its falafels, corn, yogurt sauce, spicy sauce, onions, and random other veggies and stuff.  Another awesome day!

Kebab!

nom nom nom, super delicious