photo by MorBCN

I’m getting very excited for our belated honeymoon in Barcelona. We’ve both been so busy with work and school, we’ve hardly even thought about our trip until now. It’ll be a wonderful break from the cold weather and our rigorous schedules.

If anyone has suggestions for great places to eat, or fun things to do there, I’m all ears. I’ll probably end up waiting until the plane to start reading my books on Spain. Haha! But that’s ok. Sometimes the best trip are the ones where you don’t plan everything out. You just go.

A few things I should do, though:

• Print out a list of vegan-friendly restaurants: http://www.happycow.net/europe/spain/barcelona/
• Get some maps of the city http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Barcelona,+Spain&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.682067,60.46875&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Barcelona,+Catalonia,+Spain&ll=41.388401,2.166023&spn=0.028333,0.091753&z=14
• Get a good point and shoot camera, and bring along our nice big fancy camera. It’s our honeymoon! It’s one of those crucial photo opportunities.
• get adapters for camera battery charger and laptop (and back up files, in case something happens to my laptop. Heaven forbid!)
• Let our banks know we will be out of the country so they don’t freeze our accounts due to “unusual activity in a foreign country.” And bring along phone numbers for banks in case they still freeze our accounts OR someone really does steal our cards. Heaven forbid!
• Get a couple of cute outfits for the trip. Since it’s one of those crucial photo opportunities. And who doesn’t want to feel cute on their honeymoon?
• Figure out how the heck to get from the airport to the hotel. Where are we staying again??
• Secure arrangements with kitty-sitter. And pray Sophia doesn’t totally freak out in strange, new environment.
• Create fantastic playlist on iPod for long plane ride.
• Remember passports.
• And underwear.
• Did we remember to unplug that one appliance? Are you sure? OK…

It’s amazing how much goes into planning a trip. This just proves that I need to travel much more frequently to exotic foreign countries so I can perfect my trip planning skills.