Friday 14 August 2015

Barcelona and Montserrat 2 August - Maverick scribed by Lucy

Squaaaaark!  It's me again Maverick the Kakapo! Today we woke up to a beautiful morning and prepared a delicious breakfast to share with the family and Phil.  John prepared scrambled eggs, salmon, avocado, toast, pastries, fruit and yogurt.  Even with everyone sneaking me bits of avocado, fruit and pastries,  we only barley made it through the breakfast. We head on out to the RMT (the MTR) and take a ride to pld catalonya square to have coffee with Phil before saying goodbye. 

We take the RMT to another train station and hop on the next train to The Monastery,  call Monserat with means Saw Tooth Mountain. On the way to the Monastery,  lucy made the mistake of falling asleep opposite Toni, as well as sleeping with her mouth open. Toni, being a great mum, (Kakapo sarcasm) took a picture of lucy sleeping with har mouth open and threatened to post it on Facebook.  Lukily, the photo was destroyed and never saw the daylights of Facebook or this blog. 

We finally arrived at the Monserat. The mountain looked just like some teeth. They also looked quite a bit like easter island heads. WE started to queue for the cable car that took us up to the monastery. By the time the cable car got back to us we were at the front of the line. The cable cars doors opened and we all piled into the cable car. We had one look at the view and gasped...

Rocky boulders lined the gully and stuck to the side of the mountain. There were cave, crevices and quite a few flat faces, perfect for rock climbing, and Kakapo kilimbing. My friend the Kea would be jealous. When we arrived at the top of the  cable car we hopped off and wandered around just taking in the view, and enjoying ourselves. We then enlisted that there were two trains, one going down to the ????????? And another one going up to finnicula st Joan. 
We decided to go to the finnicula.  We queued for the train going up and we finally got onto the mountain train. The Trai was on a cable and was pulled up while another train got pulled down. E arrived at the top and we looked around. There was a cat lounging in the sun while tourists petted it and fed it food. They are so silly. I don't care for cats, they're completely evil. They will come into some Kakapo or kiwis nest and eat all of their children. E passed them and headed to the museum and went to learn some stuff about stuff. We learned about rocks, caves, animals, plants and lots of her stuff about the mountain.

We took the train back down and decided it was time for lunch. John went to find some food and came back with some baguette sandwiches. E sat down and enjoyed our sandwiches before heading down the cab, e car. When we got to the train station John realized he read the train schedule incorrectly,  meaning that we still had 45 minutes to wait. It was a long wait. Finally e boarded the train and went back home.

We bought some more food at the supermarket, paid, and John and the boys went home while lucy and Toni stayed to go look at shops. (I don't know why though, it's confusing.) John and the boys waited at the apartment until the girls came home. Then we had cocktail hour. Afterwards, the kids relaxed while John cooked dinner.  E ate then pretty much entry to bed.

Everyone's settling down for bed so I'll nd this blog now, squaaark!


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