BarTHelona

They lisp here. On their Cs.
Last night we napped all the way until 10:30 at night. Thank goodness, because it was needed. The girls and I all got ready. Hung out with everyone at the apartment with everyone. By everyone, I mean a lot of people. Tera is one of five roommates. So there were those five girls, plus Katie, Kenzie and I, and two other visitors of other roommates. It was a full house. A great group of people. We left the apartment at about 12:30 to go to the first bar. This place was great, a tiny little place, but famous because they have over 1,000 different kinds of shots. The girls and I chose one with POPROCKS a kind of candy we loved eating when we were little. Such a fun place.
Katie and I at one point were talking to a few Spaniards...I was speaking in Italian, she was throwing in what she knew in French, and the guys were speaking Spanish. Somehow it worked out, and we had conversations about where we were from, what we were doing in Europe, etc. The three languages are just similar enough that we could all get by, it was great! Now, dont for any reason think that I can speak Italian. I am not that great at it. My issue is confidence when Im trying to speak, and the speed at which people speak. Thats why it worked with these guys, we were all speaking slowly to understand the others.
Im going to apologize to my grandmothers now before I make this statement...but I am much better at speaking Italian when I have had a beer or two. My confidence level goes up!
After the shot bar we left for a club called Elephant. There was lots of places to dance, lounges, a cool round bar in the middle. We were there till five in the morning dancing and meeting new people. It was a great time.
We took a cab home and slept in till about 11 the next morning.
When we got up we went to a place called Milk for brunch. They have a menu called the "Recovery Menu". They had great smoothies, dishes with eggs, pancakes, etc. McKenzie and I both got a smoothie and shared the blueberry pancakes.
Kenzie had a flight that afternoon, so we returned with her to the apartment to get her bags and take her to the bus stop to go to the airport. Then Katie, Tera, and I went to Park Guiell. By far my favorite place in Barcelona. It was a beautiful park, covered in palm trees, amazing mosaics, families, kids playing soccer and places to get sangria. It was SO warm out. All three of us were holding our coats and jackets and were down to our last layer. Lucky for Katie and Tera, they had tank tops on under everything, I was still in my long sleeve. It was warm enough for shorts, flip flops, and a t-shirt. The most warmth Ive felt all semester, it was glorious. We spent a good amount of time there but decided we should get to the beach while it was so beautiful out.
We stopped on the way to the beach to get foccacia pizza with eggplant. We took our pizzas and sat on the beach eating and people watching. We stopped for gelato on the way home. It was okay, unfortunately I have a new level of pickyness after being spoiled with such amazing gelato here in Italy.
We rested and hung out back at home. Tera had to do Spanish homework so Katie and I took this time to look through Katies Ireland book to find out where to go and what to see when we headed to Ireland.
For dinner we went to an "All you can eat for 10 euros" place. We definitely made that ten euro go far. We each had two plates. And more plates came...we ate sooo much, haha it was hysterical to see how much we actually ate. Katie and I were so happy they had chips and catchup. We had been craving them all weekend and finally got them.
SIDE NOTE - in Europe, Chips = French Fries
and Crisps = potato chips
ADDITIONAL SIDE NOTE - I loved how Barcelona had toilet seats on their public toilets, that was great.... Italy does NOT, it is unfortunate.
We went home, jumped in Tera's big bed, turned on a movie, and fell asleep within a few seconds.
Katie and I got in a cab the next morning at 8 before anyone got up and headed to the airport for Ireland!
Adios BarTHelona, thanks for the warmth and friends.