{"id":46,"date":"2008-04-17T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T09:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-04-24T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T18:42:57","slug":"week-35-april-17-to-april-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Week 35 — April 17 to April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 17, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 It’s raining, something new here.\u00a0 I was a short discussion with a woman in the building a few days ago and she commented that the weather was very unusual this winter — not much sun, not much rain, just sort of gloomy.\u00a0 Another reason why I’m reminded of Europe, I suppose.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, water is a huge problem here (not enough — they’ll have to start to take water-saving measures and are considering how to get a pipeline built in time).\u00a0 Anne took some street scenes<\/a> and photos of the dog with playmates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

April 18, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 It’s raining (again).\u00a0 This reminds me of Aspen when they say that the snow is not sufficient and suddenly they have the biggest year of snow ever.\u00a0 Anyway, everyone has complained about not enough rain, and voila, rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other news, we were awakened last night after mid-night by Joshua who informed us that David was throwing up.\u00a0 Throwing up, he was.\u00a0 The definition of “Projectile vomiting” is: “Expulsion<\/font>of the contents of the stomach with great force.”\u00a0 Well, that fits.\u00a0 There was vomit everywhere (after a nice meal of Iberic ham and red peppers, it was very red).\u00a0 It smelled very pungent too.\u00a0 Many stuffed animals were grievously injured as a result.\u00a0 Anne (mainly Anne) and I cleaned up but it was EVERYWHERE.\u00a0 And there was a lot.\u00a0 Anywho, David’s home today and is\u00a0feeling better.\u00a0 Anne is reading Treasure Island to him and Rocket, who are listening attentively.<\/p>\n

April 19, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 I went out today on the bike since it was a comfortable day, more or less, into Parc de Collserola, which is Barcelona’s “lungs”.\u00a0 It’s pretty amazing that when you get only a few miles from Barcelona, you’re in Spanish Appalachia (albeit with what are probably pricer hovels).\u00a0 Anyway, I rode around for three hours on little trafficked roads trying to find some new paths, which is hard without a map.<\/p>\n

April 20, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 David and Joshua’s school have a “green week” which means they 1) get sick from the food served (see last week) or (2) they are going to practice recycling, learn about climate change and all that.\u00a0 We assumed it was the latter.\u00a0 This was confirmed by emails from the school, which asked us to send the kids there with recycling stuff including glass (!) and shoes and cloth (?).\u00a0 In any case, we prepared three bags of stuff, which seemed like a lot to David.\u00a0 He asked if we’d drive him to school, which Anne agreed to until she reflected on the meaning of being “green” so he’ll take the bus.<\/p>\n

April 21, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0\u00a0 I rode my bike on a big circle around Colserolla Park and found industrial zones and some not-so-beautiful areas exist out there.\u00a0 In any case, I did get a three-hour ride in with some hills and nice views, otherwise.\u00a0 It seems like a small city, sort of, but when you are up in the Park, you can see the whole thing and it’s impressive.\u00a0 Among other monuments, the one that seems to stand out is the Turo Agbar, or Agbar tower, which is “bullet” shaped.\u00a0 There is a similar “bullet” shaped tower in London, not far from the London Eye.<\/p>\n

April 22, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 I replanned our May 1 break to drive to France and visit a friend from Washington, D.C. who is a retired French spy\/university professor.\u00a0 I’ll get you details as they become available.<\/p>\n

April 23, 2008<\/u>.\u00a0 Today was Sant Jordi day here in Barcelona.\u00a0 It’s celebrated throughout Cataluna, actually.\u00a0 It’s basically the Saint Valentine’s Day (which strangely is celebrated thoughout Spain, but not in Cataluna).\u00a0 In this version, Men give women one red rose (or more) and women give men books.\u00a0 There are keosks everywhere selling both all over town on every corner, it seems.\u00a0 Here are some photos.<\/a><\/p>\n

BFIS, the kids’ school, puts on an annual show for this with a bit of a Catalan feel to it.\u00a0 Everyone wears white (all the children) and each grade comes up with a different dance.\u00a0 It was fun, with about 200 people and kids all outside in their small space watching the dances which included one number on roller-blades and one with a sumo wrestler.\u00a0 I just laughed and laughed.\u00a0 Photos here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 17, 2008.\u00a0 It’s raining, something new here.\u00a0 I was a short discussion with a woman in the building a few days ago and she commented that the weather was very unusual this winter — not much sun, not much rain, just sort of gloomy.\u00a0 Another reason why I’m reminded of Europe, I suppose.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhlfelder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}