Art, boats, and something special!

I will tell you right now that I love museums. I love learning about history through physical abjects. Yesterday we took the sight seeing bus to Musue Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. 

There are pieces that date back nearly 2,000 years.

My favorite of the religious are (of which there is quite a lot, but I feel that is common in European art museums) were the murals from the inside of churches and cathedrals. They took the painted chunks of stone and re-created the walls that they were in so you could understand how it really looked. My favorite was from a church built in 1125.

 
I am always impressed by paintings that are more life-like than photographs. You can almost feel the satin of this girls dress and the soft fur of her muff.

My love tolled me that in one room there was a Salvidor Dali and a Picasso.

 

If you are wondering why I took a picture of the middle painting than you have made the same mistake I did, that is the Dali. I did not read the descriptions and just assumed the painting with the holes was by him.

After the art museum we hopped back on the tour bus, road down the hill, and hopped off again at the Musseu Maritim. The building that houses the museum is an important historical landmark all on it's own. It is where ships were built for nearly 800 years! My favorite exhibit was the wooden submarine. I immediately started singing  "...we all live in a wooden submarine, a wooden submarine, a wooden submarine...". For those of you who are not Beatles fans, they have a song called "Yellow Submarine".  My second favorite, was the life size replica of a royal naval ship from the 1500's. There is a hole in the bottom so you can see into the galley.

 



On our walk back to our apartment, I got a special treat. I found a yarn shop! Well... I had looked it up online and realized it was in the direction we were already headed. It is called All You Knit is Love, and it is a good shop. I was looking for some souvenir yarn, and the owner helped me find this beautiful sock yarn:

Also, best knitting business cards ever!

Well, kiddos are asking for breakfast so we need to get ready and go out.

Thanks for checking in,

XO Lue Lue Ellabee