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Hello sweeties & hello summer! Have you already celebrated the new season? We just did this last Thursday night at Sant Joan, a catalan tradition that celebrates the arrival of summer with fireworks and campfires. Do you remember from two years ago that we usually spent it shut in because I am super afraid of fireworks? Well, this changed a little this year because we had a lovely & fun time playing with sparklers. You might say baby steps, but still a huge leap for me!

Since Elena and Eugeni have an amazing adventure ahead with them moving for a year to Chile in a few days (eeep! exciting!), she had the best of ideas making it a date to celebrate Sant Joan together with a farewell dinner. We had the greatest time and laughed so much with the sparklers never lighting up, not even using 4 matches at the same time! ha! We are definitely going to miss these two, but I’m looking forward to the things they will show us from Chile & the experience they will live.

As soon as the girls got our sparklers, we began to scream: expecto patronum!

While the boys engaged in a Star Wars-ish fight…I guess we are different after all, ha!

Aren’t the little stars pretty? We used several sparklers at the same time because it was easier to light up a sparkler with another sparkler than with a match.

Another tradition of Sant Joan is to eat a sponge cake called Coca de Sant Joan. There are three types: the most traditional is the one we ate, the sugar-coated fruit, the second type is similar but has a spaghetti squash filling and the third (which I don’t favor) is the pork rind one.

Do you have a similar celebration for summer? Have you ever been in Barcelona during a 23rd of June? Do you like to light fireworks? Which reminds me something that is coming very soon… happy early 4th of July!