Barcelona Weekend

I finally made it to Barcelona after many difficulties. Originally there were 7 girls going on the trip and by the time the actual weekend came only 3 of us made it to Spain. Some girls booked their flight for the wrong days and couldn't get a refund, while other girls decided they couldn't afford the trip anymore... even after purchasing their nonrefundable plane ticket. It was a little frustrating to deal with, but everything worked out in the end. I even got my own bedroom, bathroom, and full size bed!

I left Thursday evening and it was pouring in Paris so my flight was delayed an hour. But we arrived a little after 10,  went to dinner, and got a good nights sleep.

This is a photo of myself in the Plaza de Catalunya.

 Alex is in the middle and Sabrina is on the right.

On Friday we walked and shopped along the main street, La Rambla, and went to the Boqueria for lunch and to check out all the produce.

The fresh juice was by far my favorite. And there were wild combinations. These were my favorite: blackberry coconut and orange, lemon, lime.

Olives!

 Cheese!

 Bulls brain, penis, and testicles... EW

We had a great paella meal at this organic stand. They had the adjective "orgasmic"in front of every item on the menu. It was weird. I refused to say "I'll have the orgasmic paella"

 We took a few of these to the beach on Saturday.

 So many eggs! You could get 30 eggs for 3 Euro. They also had emu and ostrich.

Friday night after our paella dinner we decided to see what the barcelona night life was like. I'm not a huge fan of nightclubs, but I wasn't going to be a party pooper. We went to a club called Razzmatazz and apparently 12 AM is too early to arrive at a nightclub because it wasn't open yet. We were unaware of this, but while we were standing outside trying to decide what to do we met a group of people that were from London who had also showed up too early. Luckily there was an Irish pub across the street that was open so we had a beer and got to know one another. The 3 of us ended up hanging out with their group at the club which was a lot of fun! The club has 5 different dance rooms that all play different music, so naturally we were in the room that played songs by bands like the Cure, the Killers, and the Clash. We danced until 4 AM, or should I say we danced until Alex's Tory Burch sandal got stepped on and broke and she threw a fit. Fortunately for me I was ready to go anyways.

Saturday we went to the Playa de Barceloneta to relax after our night out on Friday. The beach was so crowded, but gorgeous! As we walked back we walked through the Gothic quarter and saw the cathedral and lots of other cool architecture. I wish I knew more about some of the buildings I was looking at, but we were on our own to explore.  That night we went out for tapas and sangria. While we were sitting at the bar a man came up to us and have us each a rose... Men are very straight forward in Spain.

Sunday I had to rally the other 2 to get some more sight seeing in. I really wanted to see Park Guell and it took a little convincing to get them interested, but I succeeded in the end! Park Guell is in a nutshell, "Gaudi's Utopia". The architecture is outrageous. I kept thinking I was in Jurassic Park,

 I also fell in love with all the mosaics.

After Park Guell, we of course had to see La Sagrada Familia. I personally think it is hideous, but I also  have never seen anything like it (except maybe King Triton's castle in the Little Mermaid). Because of our late start we couldn't tour the inside. I guess I had to save some things for my next visit!