We thought we would walk around a little bit and stumbled upon this huge beautiful castle thing. The castle was on this huge hill. My first thought was, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m not walking up all of those stairs!!’ Luckily, there were escalators all the way up to the castle – how cool and lazy is that!!Inside was a beautiful dome (that we got panoramic pictures of, don’t worry!). It was actually a museum and I think we actually snuck in without paying the entrance fee (they should really have better security). On our way out we found a beautiful, and huge, organ inside of a concert hall.
After we grabbed a quick snack from a street vendor we hopped back on the bus and took it to the Olympic park. (It was actually only 1 stop – we should have walked, oops!) We weren’t really allowed go into any of the buildings so we just walked around the outside. We were able to go into the track and field stadium and that was very cool – although a lot smaller then I expected. It looked smaller than a college football stadium.We did hear some people working out in the pool – they were jamming out to some Journey. Even the Spanish know good, classic music :)
Next stop was the Mont Juic cable car up to another cool looking castle on an even higher hill. The cable car was a neat little ride – I now love cable car rides and will take them whenever I can. Although…this one wasn’t quite as high or long as a couple of the rides we’ve taken in Switzerland but we also weren’t climbing up a mountain!At the top we walked around and took some more cool panoramic and sat and enjoyed the sun (something we haven’t seen much of in the last 3 months in CH). The castle housed a military museum that we decided not to go into but there were still canons and other cool military stuff outside of the museum.
By this time we realize we’re absolutely starving so we head back down the mountain via cable car and hop back on the bus. We get off at Miramar, the (kinda) open air mall on the harbor. We find a cute little modern Chinese-y restaurant (I got to have soy sauce so it was all good) with a nice view of the water.At lunch we had these crazy rice cake type things. They were like half rice cake, half pop rocks, half cotton candy (yeah, I know the math doesn’t work…that’s why I have my ten key with me always!). You’d put them in your mouth and they would pop and melt into your tongue at the same time. Kyle and I spent a good 45 minutes giggling because of these.
After lunch we did some shopping. Shopping for us now consists of walking around the stores looking at all the pretty things that we could afford if we were in the states but because we’re in Europe they all cost 4-5 times more. We did find a Disigual store. It’s a cross between Urban Outfitter, American Apparel, and a bad 80’s hair band music video. In fact, I’m sure that I’ve seen some of the clothes that they had in there in old White Snake videos.
Anyway, Kyle and I had a dance party in the middle of the store and as security was about to ask us to leave we decided we were done.
We hopped back on the bus to finish out our blue route. Once we got all the way around the loop we decided we wanted to head to the casino. So we stayed on the bus to make another ¾ loop around the city going past all the things we’d already seen that day.
Once we get back around to the casino (WE FOUND IT!) we head in and are ready to play some table games. Well, we didn’t have our actual passports with us – just color copies, we’d heard Barcelona was a big pickpocket city – so we were sequestered to the video machines.I played Hoot Loot for about an hour. At one point I had won 30 Euro but promptly lost it. Kyle lost a few Euro too but I think he has more fun watching me dance around like an idiot to the slot machine music when it’s spinning than he has actually playing, so he didn’t lose much.
Finally we got bored of Hoot Loot so we took another walk up La Rambles until we decided we were done walking. We hopped on the subway back to our hotel and found a quaint little pizza place along the way.
Real Spanish Sangria is awesome – but it really sneaks up on you! We had a pitcher and a half at the restaurant. Red Sangria with dinner and Champagne Sangria (or Sangria Cava) with dessert (Red=good, Champagne=not so good). Half way through pitcher #2 we decided we needed to stop drinking and leave IMMEDIATELY. Luckily our hotel was only about a block away so we were able to successfully stumble home…and we were instantly asleep!
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you were at the magic fountain! But during the day...so they probably weren't very magical...and are the fountains on during the winter?
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