Early in the morning on Tuesday we checked out of our hostel, stored our luggage and caught the train to Montserrat.  It was about an hour ride and then we had to catch a cable car to the top.  The cable car was pretty much terrifying, but I survived.

We walked up to the church when we arrived, but the mass started in 15 minutes so we decided to wait until it opened up again to go inside.  Montserrat is a pilgrimage type site where people go to see a statue of a black Mary that was saved by the monks when the monastary was destroyed by the French in 1811.  There were many people that were taking off their shoes and holding both their hands to the sky in front of the church- I'm still not entirely sure what that was about.

To pass the time we grabbed some lunch (looks like yesterday's, no?) and took a walk down one of the hiking paths.

We did end up going into the church after standing in a very long line we didn't actually get to go into.  It was a pretty impressive interior, but none of my pictures came out very well.  In order to beat the rush to get back into the city we left after going to the church.  Once back in the city we walked over to see some of the famous Gaudi architecture.