Cuanca & Barcelona

We spent the weekend in Grants last area of Cuenca. About 2 hours outside Madrid. Town of around 45,000 people. We had a pizza dinner at a recent converts apt. Myrim was baptized a few weeks ago and on Sunday gave a wonderful talk in Sacrament meeting.After the meeting Elder Monson gave a bookmark to each of the members and they had a farewell lunch.I saw a few tears around the room.From Cuenca we traveled to Barcelona Spain They have a wonderful tourist bus system where you buy a pass and can ride these buses between all the sights in the city and hop on and off as you want to visit and sight see. As you are on board they give you head phones to narrate what you are seeing and what is at each of the stops. Very interesting.
We stopped at the Sagrada Familia which is a hugh temple structure started by Gaudi and never finished before he died It continues to be built from anonymous donations and admission receipts It is enormous in size and detail and will have 3 different facades when it is completed many years from now. We took a tram to the top of Tibidabo which has a large church that over looks the city.We toured the Museu Maritim and saw where they built ships hundreds of years ago. Back at the time of Christopher Columbus.Barcelona sits on the Mediterranean sea which of course Stuart had to take a dip in.