Barcelona II

Barcelona has been better!  Last time I blogged, I was feeling pretty tired and unmotivated.  I'm still both of those things, but I've made myself get up and go do stuff.  

I met up again that night with the Brit and we went and saw the Magic Fountain.  This thing is so cool!  It's a giant water dismay with music and colored lights that was building for one of the World Fairs in the 1920s.  The giant fountain is level, but you can climb the these stairs behind it waaaaaaaay far up, all the way up to this art museum and look down over it.  It sounds cheesy, but it was pretty impressive.

The next day the Brit and I met up again to go be beach bums.  We headed down to Barceloneta and picked out a nice spot and just basically laid there like beached jellyfish for a while.  The water was so gorgeous and turquoise, and the temperature of it was perfect.  We took turns going into the water and watching our stuff.  It was just a wonderful Mediterranean time!  We got lunch there and then said goodbye, as he had to go catch his flight back to London.  I was kind of sad, as he ended up being an excellent sightseeing buddy.   In addition, he totally hooked me up with bottles of shower gel, shampoo, and sunscreen that came with his hotel room, all stuff that I was just about out of and was trying to avoiding purchasing for my last few days.  Haha!  After that I wandered over and took a ride on this cable car that goes way up high above the city.  It drops you off in a park, and then I took the bus back downtown to the city center.  The bus passed the giant futball stadium and the Olympic stadium, so it was cool to briefly see those things.

This morning I woke up with the intention of going to do the tour of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, but I showed up and the queue was around the block and I went NOPE!  I should have gotten up earlier, and will try again tomorrow.  So what I did instead was go and roam around a neighborhood I hadn't been in yet, which ended up being full of cute boutiques and vintage stores, and getting some more juice from the giant market.  I also took in a free walking tour of some of Gaudi's highlights.  The tour was so good that I'm planning on catching another one tomorrow, of the Old City.  And now my evening consists on drinking Estrella beer and eating Toblerone  chocolate with my roommates.

Anyhow, that's about it for now.  I haven't been very exciting in Barcelona, sorry readers. I was telling one of my roommates that I haven't felt very cultured in this city, and she said that her dad likes to say that you can get more culture from sitting in a coffee shop in a new city for an hour than going to a museum. If that's the case, then I am the most cultured person ever! :)