Barca wooooooooo

Oh my goodness me! I know that this post is SO delayed it isn't even funny! But I'm pretty sure only one person reads my blog anyways, because YOLO I have no friends and my family doesn't like me. MEH.

Okay! So instead of writing a super long blog post on my weekend excursion with my besties to Barcelona AND Madrid - I'm going to split them up! Let's start with a city that needs no introduction....

BARCA

It all began on the airplane when we got hammered off of a glass of wine. It must be the altitude - but flying is FUN when you're tipsy! Why don't people do it more often!? Well... maybe they do - but I was a youngen when I started flying so I didn't get the "grown up" memo. But I totally know how I am going to spend my LONG flight home - enjoying some serious FREE wine and hopefully staring in my own drunken plane scene like in Bridesmaids. Just kidding - but seriously. All the booze. I want it. Besides - it may actually help me sleep. Although - I feel very badly for the individuals seated beside me - they'll be subjected to some serious giddy giggling - to myself. Oh the JOY of the holidays. 

Ah! But anyways - we get absolutely tipsy on the flight, unintentionally, but still! Imagine 5 giddy girls in camino to Barcelona! We were a sight for sore eyes, that is for sure. We arrived at our hostel which was pretty cool, bunk beds - a private room to ourselves, and we only had to share the bathroom. First thing is first, Charlee and I ran to get a kebab - it was necessary but beyond disgusting. Ew. Barca kebabs. And it was about 1 am so none of the chino shops were open - which means that there wasn't any alcohol! Although there were many randos on the street selling beer, we responsibly decided not to bite.

So we got dressed up and decided we would wander around anyways. We set out, and run into this random Columbian guy in the hostel who said he worked for this awesome bar and he can take us there and we can get cheap drinks! Making friends with promoters is always a great time. So - we go ahead with him, but he takes us to this terrible bar - drinks were shit and expensive - he lied to us about the prices - I don't even think he worked there - and he would not leave us alone. He just sat down with us, so we carried on a conversation without him - creepy. And when it came time, we not so politely told him to peace out. Dud night. We just went back home so that we could be ready for our day of excursions the next day!

The next day was wonderful! We woke up and got ourselves a DELICIOUS baguette for breakfast (I'm going to miss those soo much). And headed out to take one the beautiful city. We paid to take the double decker tourist bus and it was a fabulous decision. We truly got to see so much of Barcelona because it took us everywhere.

We saw so much of Gaudi's work - and let me tell you - it is true art. Beautifully eery, and creepy, and it is unlike anything I have ever seen before. He was a true master of his work. Sagrada Familia was absolutely gorgeous. In fact - they are continuing the building and it is expected to finally be finished anywhere from 2025 - 2050. Holy cow, is it ever gorgeous. 

We went to Camp Nou - a "football" (soccer) stadium. It is the largest stadium in Europe and seats close to 100,000 people. We saw the "Universitat de Barcelona". We went to Parc Guell which was absolutely gorgeous! It is filled with mosaic, and you can see the city for ages when you're standing there. All of the artistic detail with this mosaic was absolutely beautiful. We walked La Rambla. We took a bus down to the port - although it was freezing cold and dark so we couldn't see too much. And we went to Starbucks to warm up and enjoy some serious coffee! Boy have I missed my Vanilla Lattes. Vanilla everything, get in my mouth!

We went to a Spanish restaurant for dinner - weird food as usual. And headed back to the hostel to get ready and drink for our night out!

We went to Razzmatazz, this HUGE club with a billion floors and secret rooms! It was so freaking good! We met some friends at the hostel and played drinking games with them before we went to the club, and a South African guy joined us on our night out. Now, some of our American friends were in Barcelona as well, and we planned to meet up but we couldn't reach each other etc. But somehow - we bumped into them at this HUGE club in the bathroom. How bizarre!? We danced and danced and I bought condoms out of the bathroom dispenser and started handing them out to strangers - advising them to "please practice safe sex". Awesome. 

Razz my tazz!

The next day we were off to Madrid. But we spent the afternoon walking the streets, eating KFC (oh god it had been so long) and walking through the amazing Spanish market. Literally everything you could ever desire. The meat kiosks full of EVERY meat, the seafood  - all of the seafood ever, candy, spices, jams, fruits and veggies, everything! So neat!

And alas, we're off to Madrid! 

xoxoxoxox

-CB