MAGNET AND LIQUOR DAY! (Barcelona, Spain 12/20/08)

Of course, we slept in again.

If you’ve ever been on a cruise before you know they charge an arm and a leg for an alcoholic beverage (well, really any beverage…). Although we’re not real big drinkers we like to enjoy a few drinks on vacation. So, we thought we’d go find a liquor store that carried some ‘fruity’ booze. Kyle had to do a little research to find a liquor store that had more then home made grain alcohol but we found the ‘biggest liquor store in Spain’.

So, first thing after we got up we headed out to the liquor store…a short 16 block walk get a little long when you get lost… This store was really cool, and a little confusing. You walk in the front door and it looks like an old time-y delicatessen. It had walks COVERED with shelves full of cans and jars of stuff. The guys behind the counter even had cute little paper hats.

You walk through the deli area into a windowless, low ceiling room that has shelves and shelves of beer and wine – floor to ceiling. You kinda walk around this corner and through this small entryway and the room opens up into another windowless room. Again, floor to ceiling shelves with probably a thousand bottles of hard alcohol – it was awe inspiring :)

We picked up our five liters of booze (remember we’re on a boat for over 2 weeks) and headed to the check out line. Once we got all rung up I started putting the bottles into my fabric bags – I take them everywhere with me – and the checkers was 10 kinds of confused, but then he realized I was being environmental and he congratulated me.

We decided to take the subway back to the hotel to drop off the booze and then headed back out to find some lunch. We walked quite a bit and then eventually found a cute little restaurant where we had some nice Spanish food.

After lunch we went back to Las Rambles to find my Barcelona magnet. We found it right across the street from the Starbucks so we decided to stop by again for coffee, donuts, and chocolate cake (oh, and of course, some checkers).

After a couple of hours of (I can only assume because I don’t actually remember) Kyle losing at checkers we decided to venture back out onto Las Rambles. After snapping some fun pictures of the street at night we decided to call it a night and head back to the hotel, try out some of our newly acquired alcohol and go to bed.