Day 6 in Lisbon We called a taxi, which took us directly to the airport, and , I have to say, the taxi was very expensive. It costed us EUR 40, which was more than we expeced. We checked in and walked around the airport; there were many cosmetics shops in it. When we arrived in Lisbon, we called a taxi to go directly to the local woman's home. The host was nice, and she prepared some maps and a list of famous sites for us to visit. Meanwhile, she told us that if we got lost, just followed up the rail. Her home was next to the rail. Although you might have to walk a little father along the road, you could arrive at her home fairly easily. We took the electronic bus to the famous site: Castelo de S. Jorge. It wasn't in our plan at first, so we bought tickets when we arrived. We didn't know much about the castle, just that the building was designed to defend against attacks. We walked around the building and also saw the whole scenery of the Lisbon. It wasn't a sunny day, so the sky was not bule. We went home early because we have a lot of places to visit tomorrow.

Day 5 in Barcelona We went to outlet stores to go shopping today. Before that I sent a message to our host in Lisbonto confirm our arrival time tomorrow. We learned from our experience of having to wait for the host for several hours in Valencia. Unfortunately, however, the host cancelled our booking. I was so surrised to receive this message. It broke our plan suddenly. I sent a message to Airbnb at once and wanted to know what was wrong; meanwhile, I needed to book a new local home. Otherwise we woldn't have had a home to stay in tomorrow. After finding one new satifying home, we wooked it at once. We didn't call the Airbnb because we are abroad now and the telephone bill would have been expensive, but I sent them our Spain telephone number and let them call us. We were going to go shopping in the morning at first, but now we had to go shopping in the afternoon. We walked to the bus station and tok a one hour bus to the outlets. There were many luxury brands there. We stayed there almost 5 hours and caught the last bus to return downtown. In the downtown area we came across another riot. People hung the Catalonian flag. I guessed at the time that they were fighting for their independence because I had remembered that several month ago there was some news about the Catalonians wanting independence. I thought Barcelona had a bit of a mess; in only two days we came across two protests. We came back to the hotel immediately because we plan to go to Lisbon by air tomorrow morning.

Day 4 in Barcelona We woke up at 7:30 in the morning because we booked a visit to Sagrada Familia which is the most famous building in Barcelona. Since we already lived downtown, we decided to walk. When we saw the building, I was greatly impressed. It was magnificent even if it didn't get finished. Sagrada Familia was built by Gaudi and today, years after his deadth, people are helping him finish his idea. There are three facades in the Sagrada Familia: Nativity Facade, which was the first built; Passion Facade, and Glory Facade, which isn't finished yet. People attempt to imitate Gaudi's thoughts to build Glory Facade. We visited it from the Nativity Facade. We climbed the tower which was a little dangerous because there was only one side of protection. Any child is under 6 is forbidden to climb. The tower looks like a maze; there are many roads around it. When we got down the tower, we begun to visit the inside of the Sagrada Familia. There are many colorful windows in it; maybe it has a relationship with the light. I was wondering how ancient people could build such a tall building. We borrowed digital tour guides from a website while we were visiting. We could listen through earphones, and it could explain more details about the building. Next we visited the Casa Mila, however we didn't enter it, only looking at it from the outside. It was also designed by Gaudi. We didn't stay there for a long time and went to the next site: Casa Batllo. My husband doesn't like the art of Gaudi because he thinks Gaudi's art is too dark. Seeing the outside of the Casa Batllo, you can find this dark connection with the building: Gaudi designed it like people's bones, the window he designed like holes. I also don't like the building because of the ticket. There are three kinds of tickets: children, audlt and resident. With the resident ticket being chaper. We went to the famous market to eat lunch. It has many fruits, meat, vegetables and fast food. It was hard for us to order food because we don't know much about the western food, so we ordered snail, shrimp, and fish while looking at other people's table. The shrimps were very big, even one of them could make you feel full. After eating the lunch, we went to the beach. Because it was still a little cold, there were not many people on the beach. However, I also saw some people swimming in the water, and some of the girls didn't wear clothes when lying on the beach. My husband and I walking along the beach and enjoying the sun.

Day 3 in Valencia We lazily slept in on the third day because we had no set schedule. We work up at 10:00 and ate our breakfast. After that we went shopping and visited two sites: the local bullring and train station. The train station is famous there because of the design. It doesn't look like a normal train station that is old and dirty. It's full of European style. We decided to eat something special for today's lunch: paella. We ate paella in a local restaurant which was opened by my husband's friend. We ordered a meat paella, some kind of cheese (the shape is like a dumpling) and a bottle of wine. My husband told there are two kinds of paella: one is made out of meat, the other is seafood. My husband and I both preferred the paella with meat. It was my first time eating the local paella. To be frank, it didn't taste so amazing, but it was precious for its meaning. It means every person in the family gathers and eats paella together. In the afternoon we went to the train station to go to the Barcelona. After we arrived in Barcelona by 21:00, we planned to head to the hotel by taxi. Unfortunately, however, we came across a riot. Many people hung a sign in the street; I was not sure what they were doing, but I could guess they may have been protesting against ubers. The people in the riot were all taxi drivers. We had to walk to the hotel as a result of there being no taxis in the street and most of road were blocked. After walking 40 minutes, we arrived at the hotel. It was really hard walking with four suitcases.

Day 2 in Valencia We visited downtown in the morning and saw a stature of Maria made of flowers. Local people brought flowers to add to the stature. The red and white body of Maria are all flowers. Besides Maria, there were many churches in the area but I was not interested in them. We also visited the Valencia Museum which was also very famous. The building resembled an eye. We didn't enter the museum, only looking at it from the outside. There were many activites such as boating and taking photo in front of the museum. I decided to do the ball activity in which I was in a blow-up ball trying to keep my balance on water. I fell down most of the time. In the afternoon we took the train to visit my husband's relatives. We found out that you have to pay in order to use the restroom in the train station. My husband wanted to use the restroom at first but he endured. It was a small down where they lived. My husband forget the actual address at the first, so he asked the waiter in the bar. Luckily, the waiter remembered my husband; maybe my husband was the only Chinese person in the town which impressed him. The waiter told my husband the address he asked for. When the relatives saw my husband, they were so surprised. They talked a lot; I just sat on the sofa. Because I can't speak Spanish. In the evening we did some shopping in the street. My husband tried on an interesting mask in one of the shops, and I laughed a lot.

Day 1 in Valencia I spent my honeymoon in Spain last month. It was a fantastic travlling experience that I have never had before. We flow into Valencia, our first stop, on Mar.19. When we arrived in Valencia, we went directly to a local man's home. Unfortunately, however, the host wasn't at home, so we called him at once. He said he was currently at work and his father wouldn't be back until 17:00. It was a bad start to the trip. My husband called his friend who lived in Valencia. His friend drove us to his home. After we left luggage at his home, we went to eat luch. He took us to eat pizza and meat. I was surprised at the amount of the food. Even the three of us couldn't finish just a plate of meat that was meant for two people. After eating lunch, we stayed in his home for a while because we were exhausted from jet lag. We rested until the host called us, informing us that he had returned from work. When we arrived at the local man's home he apologized to us and left after telling us some details about his home. My husband and I went to sleep immediately because we wanted to go to Las Fallas, a famous festival in Valencia. We woke up at 23:00 and walked out to the street. We saw tons of paper dolls on the street. My husband told me they were a satirical representation of various scenes and current events. Next we walked downtown where there was the biggest papper doll, It wasn't until the midnight that the performance started. First there were fireworks but then the paper dolls were lit on fire. The paper dolls burned for a while until they collapsed. Everyone begun to cheer, but after the burning was finished we went back to sleep.

The Copenhagen Diet - Second Day Today is the second day and it is really hard. I didn't sleep very well yesterday because I was hungry. Any way today's recipe as below: Breakfast: Black Coffee + one cube sugar(if need) Lunch: low fat ham (150-200g), low fat/skim yoghourt (200g) Supper: steak (150g), lettus ( infinite amount) At the begining of the diet, it is always hard. Especially in the afternoon, if you are not very bush and have nothing to do, you will feel you are always hungry and want to search some food to eat. Sometime I feel I can't insist to keep going, but in the other way, if you want to lose weight, you must control your mouse.

The Copenhagen Diet - First Day I am not sure whether everyone knows The Copenhagen Diet, but it's very popular here. Girls use this recipe to lose weight. The recipe is only for 13 days, so it's easy to keep going. Today is my first day. The recipe is as below: Breakfast: one cup of black coffee( if you can't drink black coffee, you can add one block of sugar 5~10g) Lunch: two eggs, one tomato(No cooking), spinach(we have infinite amount) Supper: one steak( 200g), lettuce(we have infinite amount) Drink 2L water the whole day I felt hungry all the day and I woke up at 3:00 am, OMG. But I will keep it. People who tried this said they lose 5~10kgs. It's amazing!

Bad Day I am not very happy today, even I am bummed out. Our company has a new position sales coordinator supervisor, I might think I can do it and get promotion. The other competitor who our manager thinks she is more suitable, just because her cdirect lead is not very friendly and she needs a new enivorment. I am disappointed that I am working hard, I am trying to improve my English, but what do I get! People sympathize the weakness, they ignore the stronger. It's not fair. Just because I have a friendly leader & find salary, and give the chance to other people.