Europe Part 1 - Spain!

Waaaay back in September, our little family traveled to Europe for 2 whole weeks of amazing-ness!! Our first stop was Salou, Spain which is an hour south of Barcelona. Salou was very interesting and so hot! I don't think we could ever get sick of sunny beaches! Some highlights in Salou:

We went to Port Aventura, Spain's largest theme park.

Carter and Jared went on the crazy log ride and got soaked. Good thing it was a hot day...

I thought it was funny that in North America we have bumper cars; in Spain it's bumper matador bulls!!

We took a little day trip to Tarragona, which is an old Roman city. We just happened to be there during Santa Tecla, a traditional festival. We got to watch a real life bicycle race through the streets of downtown Tarragona. 

We also got to witness the Santa Tecla parade....strangest parade I have ever seen!

Downtown Tarragona, this is called the Monument a Roger de Lluria:

Castellers Monument (a human stacking tradition which they re-create at festivals):

Our hotel pool at night

We spent alot of time on the beach. The kids could play in the waves all day long (and by "kids" I mean Jared too).

Our resort's pool had an awesome pirate ship slide

Streets of Tarragona

These doors belong to a beautiful cathedral in the roman ruins 

The Roman Amphitheatre was really cool, unfortunately they have fenced off most of it due to it's declining state so we couldn't go inside.

We love dressing up for fancy dinners on vacation

This is the view from our resort...Spain is beautiful!!