{adventures abroad} anniversary-moon II: spain

to celebrate our second wedding anniversary, we decided to make our triumphant return to europe!  we'd been dreaming about spain for a while, so we booked a trip to barcelona and madrid at the end of may. to prepare, we ate lots of tapas and watched l'auberge espagnole and vicky cristina barcelona. most of the following posts have been kidnapped from my old blog, with some new additions and updates thrown in for good measure.

our trip began on may 30th. we were so excited that we got to the airport four hours early. we ate breakfast, did a crossword, people-watched, bought magazines, anything we could to pass the time. the people-watching part was pretty entertaining, actually, since we happened to be at the airport at the height of the swine flu hysteria. of course that's not to say that i didn't bring some air-borne and lots of hand sanitizer with me...
we ate lunch at pop-eyes (one of our random travel traditions) before boarding the plane for our first flight to atlanta. the eight-ish hour flight from atlanta to barcelona went smoothly as it could have possibly gone; we both got a little bit of sleep, and we had those little tv screens in the back of the seats in front of us that let you choose movies and watch your progress as you cross the atlantic. when we landed we had to fill out lots of paperwork - the usual stuff with some added bonus materials thanks to the swine flu - before they would let us off the plane, and then they bused us from the plane to BCN...