Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Today I went for burgers at Pim Pam burgers, a place that uses fresh meat from the market with my roommates and friends Maggie and Raquel. Delish. And of course, crepes. Although Lindsay tried a waffle and that may have changed my life. It was SO GOOD! I just may have to get one next time. Then we went to see the movie Valentine’s Day in one of the English movie theatres around here. It was dumb, but cute. It was weird that the movie was in English, but had Spanish subtitles. I tried to read some of the Spanish and follow along for practice. I noticed that movies definitely don’t translate all that well. Certain jokes and expressions just don’t transfer from language to language. Tonight Jon and I are going to plan our Paris trip. And that is my Valentine’s Day.
This weekend Lindsay and Ilana came to visit me in Barcelona! We had such a great, busy and exhausting time. It feels so good to see your best friends. I missed Sherry so much though. It truly felt like someone was missing. They arrived Thursday afternoon, while I was still in class, but Rikki met up with them and took them back to our apartment. Then they had lunch somewhere on Passeig de Gracia and I met them at Zara as soon as my class ended. We went back to the apartment shortly after and caught up for a bit. That night we took them to Bubo Bar for delicious tapas for dinner, crepes and then Chuptios and the Dow Jones bar. I thought the Dow Jones bar was cool, but overrated. We decided to save the clubs for Friday because we wanted to do a lot during the day.
That turned out to be a very smart decision because what a busy Friday we had! We got up early and took the metro and Funicular up to Tibidabo an old amusement park that offers some of the best views of the city. Once there, we went on one of the rides that slowly brought you up about a hundred feet into the air. The view was spectacular. After Tibidabo, we got sandwiches, chocolate, cookies and water and took them to eat at Park Guell for a little picnic. I went to the park one of my first days here with CEA, but I was so exhausted that I didn’t fully appreciate it. It really is beautiful and I am excited to spend a day there with a book and my Ipod when it becomes warmer outside. Then we went to show Re and Lanz Sagrada Familia. At this point, we had been walking for hours so we came home for a siesta before dinner. We went to Paella for dinner at Siete Portes, which is located in one of the oldest buildings in Barcelona. It was a great meal. However, at the beginning of the meal the waiter brought a bowl of bread to the table. There were four of us and the bowl contained four very small pieces of bread and some different oils to dip. When we got our bill, we found that we were charged 2.40 euros per piece of bread! How ridiculous. The waiter never asked us if we wanted bread and it didn’t say anywhere on the menu that they would charge us for the bread. We argued with waiter and he finally agreed to only charge us for two pieces, but still. I found that very rude. I knew it was somewhat customary here to charge for bread, but I think that it at least should be noted on the menu. That night we went out to the clubs and Lindsay learned to salsa dance from a local guy there. The Carnival here is starting soon, so the club was all decked out with decorations and these two scary figures on stilts that were very inappropriate! We didn’t get home until past 5 a.m. but we wanted to wake up early again to make the most of their last day.
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