Barcelona

Last weekend I went to Barcelona to visit my roommate from Maryland who is currently studying there. I have to make this brief because I have homework to do, so here are the highlights:

Let me preface this weekend with the fact that I think I had an ulcer! I ate too many oranged on Wednesday and my stomach hurt incredibly from Wednesday night until this morning. I finally made a doctor's appointment today and of course I am feeling infinitely better.

Got to see my friend Jess too! She is studying in Paris and came for the weekend too.

Went to Parc Guell on Friday. IT WAS SO COOL. I absolutely love the work of Gaudi. If you don't know his stuff, you should probably google it right now! So much color! The weather was beautiful and there were a bunch of small children who had the cutest uniforms going on field trips in the park. We walked around and shopped a little. And got sushi! Which was extremely exciting.

Vicki lives above a hostel and the hostel people go out everynight and bring the guests. We went out with them on Friday so we could get into the club for free. First we went to a bar and I had the tastiest shot ever! It was a mojito shot and it had lime juice, rum, mint, and sugar. It did not taste at all like alcohol (and probably didn't have much in there- mostly sugar). Then we went to the club. It was one the beach which was cool, but Vicki had never been to it and it ended up being kind of lame so we were home by 3am.

Got a good 7+ hours of sleep and were out the door by 11. Walked down to the beach and walked along it. Then we went to my favorite part. Barcelona Beer Festival! It was the first time they had this festival and it was amazing! Entry was free, and then inside you would pay for a glass and then tokens. Each beer was a different amount of tokens. I ended up getting 18 tokens and got to try 7 different types of beer and spent less than 20 euros. The atmosphere was perfect; it felt like summer. My favorite beers were Meantime (London) Cranberry Stout and the same brand's Yakima Red. There was a really interesting one from Denmark by Cervesart called Cat Porter that had hints of chocolate and coffee but was SMOKED which gave it a really interesting taste. We got empanadas too! Which were delicious, especially since we were all a little drunk.

We didn't do anything Saturday night because when I got home my stomach started hurting pretty badly again! I had totally forgot about my condition and had drunk a glass of sangria at dinner. The citrus fruit in it made my stomach go crazy.

Sunday we just lazed around La Ramblas.

It was a grade A weekend and next week I will be in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin! Yay spring break!