Dad cooked an amazing Thanksgiving dinner (3 stuffed chickens!) with all the gravy, potatoes and other goodness. I baked the pumpkin pies using the slightly altered/spanish ingredients. There was a bit of a fiasco there! I made the entire filling (from scratch, like I was taught and TRUST me it was not easy to find a pumpkin and I got rather ripped off for it too) but nonetheless I was determined! So I made the filling and then realized after it was all done that the milk was already sweetened - and I added sugar. It was 2x sweeter. Soooo after thinking about ways to salvage this I decided it wasn't possible so I ran as fast as possible (it's now about 4pm, dinner at 9pm) and get MORE pumpkin and start again! Luckily the 2nd batch turned out great, the all butter pastry was super tasty and even my super picky italian roomate liked it! Success! It was quite a feast with I think 9 of us there in the end. A really really nice Thanksgiving.
I've been taking Dad around doing a few things, including a couple of days relaxing on the beach. Yesterday I started to feel quite sick and ended up with a full blown flu by the end of the night and after recovering all day today in bed I'm starting to feel better - now let's hope that he didn't catch it! Then I got it together, and we went to see this concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axpAPrM4vk
There is a small clip of this man. He was so fantastic - he could make that guitar sound like so many different instruments! Drums, harps, guitars, pianos. He is from Barcelona and has trained for many years with a lot of famous composers. The clip is not of his best song but it shows a bit of the theatre there where we saw him (Palau de la Musica Catalana) which is also a very beautiful and different style of building.
We have been having some nice dinners, especially my favorite restaurant (well, one of them anyway) which is SUPER well priced in the city and the food is simply amazing. The meat is fantastic and I don't even like meat. It's called Melic del Gotic and I think I will take everyone who comes to visit me there. It's just that good!
Tomorrow I'm going to try to get to Sagrada Familia! But now bed time so that tomorrow everyone can be feeling better and I can be a good tour guide!
<3 B
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