A Day at the Olympics

April 6, 2013-

Another day in paradise.

Today we woke up to the sunshine to the right of where we looked out the window and dark, puffy clouds to the right. This only meant one thing: the rain was coming, but not yet here. QUICK, do everything you can before it arrives.

I jumped out of bed, threw on my clothes, talked to Amanda online and headed to the Olympic stadiums that were built in to a mountain in the south Barcelona.

We took the metro and then hiked up the mountain a little to where we could see a panoramic view of Barca. After taking pictures and sitting in the sun on a bench in the park for awhile, when the sun went behind the clouds, we hiked up the mountain more to the stadiums.

Barcelona was the city of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games and the stadiums were still there and are still being used for various activities. My absolute dream is to attend the Olympic Games one year, so getting to the stadiums that were once used had me so excited.

We got to go inside the track and field stadium. Although I thought the stadium would be much bigger, I still loved it. A little lower on the mountain was the indoor Olympic pools which were being used for a swim meet so unfortunately we didn't get to go inside. Lower than the pools was the basketball courts, and even lower than that were the baseball fields. After looking around and seeing all of those places it started to pour rain and was getting late in to the afternoon. We hiked back up, around and down to the metro station to go home.

Just being able to see the stadiums was great, I can't even imagine how it would feel/what it would look like if the games were actually taking place. I am so excited to one day be able to attend the games!

See the Olympic Stadiums: check!