Today was the day we get to catch up on sleep and fight jet lag from an eight and half hour flight.  We are 5 hours ahead of all of you back home.  We really enjoyed Barcelona yesterday.  I would certainly love to spend more time in this beautiful city.  Today we were able to explore our ship – the Norwegian Gem.  It is a new ship just under a year old.  It comes complete with watersides and a rock climbing wall – in addition to all the other fun cruise ship stuff.

I wanted to share a few more pictures from Barcelona I took yesterday.  Tomorrow we will be docking in Valetta, Malta a small island off the cost of Italy.  It is a beautiful island filled with fishing villages.  I will have beautiful pictures from there tomorrow.

We were able to attend yesterday a Sunday morning mass at the Cathedral in Barcelona.  This was a beautiful, breathtaking place.  The arch looks like Paris – but it is much smaller.

If you are a little nervous about being on a big boat – you are comforted by doing an emergency drill – where you are shown how to evacuate the ship in case it sinks.  That certainly calms your nerves.  DeWayne thinks is is a ploy to sell more alcohol.