Ay Carumba

My senora said something today that I have only heard out of the mouth of Bart Simpson.

1/16/09

Today David, Shane, Chessie, Matt and I wanted to go see Montjuic and we ended up putting together a sizeable crew of 11 people to go. We took the bus that took us to the funicular to go up the mountain, but we ended up deciding to walk instead. It was a hike, but it really wasn’t too long. The views from the top were amazing; we looked out over all of Barcelona and the Mediterranean. We got to the top at about 4:30 and stayed until the sun set.

After that we wanted to go see the fountain light show outside the Museum of Catalonian art, so we walked down there. The show was starting at 7 and we got there around 6:15ish to get a spot and wait. So wait we did… until 6:58… when we were told by a passerby that they don’t start the fountain shows until February… fools.

When we got home we discovered that our rooms had been legit cleaned. I’ m talking organzing, folding, washing, bed making. It’s a pretty nice situation I’ve got going on here.

After our dinner of fried calamari and tuna empanadas (healthy.), Chessie and I went to meet up with some people from our class at a little bar downtown. We had a little trouble finding the place since the door looks like a little window right at street level. We had to duck to get through the door and climb downstairs to the basement. The name of it was in French but it meant “The people I like”. It was a cool place, very small (as every place seems to be), dim lighting, red velvet couches. Swank. We only stayed for a little while because we had to catch the metro back before it closed so we left and got to the metro right at 2am (closing time) and made it home.

Fun fact of my day: Saw a woman pop a squat whilst waiting for the metro. Right at rush hour. Right in the metro station. Right in front of about 30 people. I got the rear end view.