Day 2

Monday, December 28th

I slept in until 8 a.m.! That is pretty good considering the last time I was in Europe, the 1st 2 days I would wake up at 4 a.m. wide awake. My friend Andrew finally made it in and it was good to see him walking up the street, since I was concerned that he was stuck in Atlanta for a night and then had to fly to New York, before flying here. Once we got him settled, we headed out to hit the streets. He wanted to see the beach, so thatś were we headed, but not before we stopped for lunch. I had a fantastic chicken and vegitable sandwich and Andrew had some of the Spanish Jamon (ham), it was all delicious. We got a little turned around, but after a short detour, we headed towards the water. We walked around quite a bit, and stopped to get information on the bus tours that are available, the hop on & hop off busses are the best. For 21€,there are 44 stops, with 2 routes, that take you to ALL the spots we wanted to see. Mountjuic, Sangrada Familia, Park Guell, The Cathedral of Barcelona, Plaça de Catalunya and of course Hard Rock Cafe!! SO, this is going to be the day 4 plan when the other 2 guys are here. After we figured this out, we continued to the beach. It was beautiful and well worth the walk. We then made some additional plans for ¨when the guys get here¨ and we headed back to the hostel. We didnt do a siesta, but we did just kinda chill out. Since we were scheduled to meet the guys at 10 p.m. at the bar in the hostel, we headed out again for dinner. We decided against Tapas, since we wanted to eat that with the other guys too, so we walked a while and looked at all the different restaurants on the Pararl-lel (one of the main streets). We settled on a place that was quiet and we ate pizza, which I find as funny, but it was really good. Andrew was pretty happy that his pizza had frankfurters on it, haha. Mine had Jamon, since I swore that I would at least try the Ham in Spain, but Im not a ham fan, so that will be the last of that. We also had some fantastic wine, that was super cheap! What a great area for local wine. After dinner we just waited a the hostel for the guys and once they finally arrived, we headed out again for them to get some food. We walked a little ways along and street called the La Ramblas, another main street here. After stopping at a couple of places, we ended up at a Middle Eastern Restaurant, I thought this was funny, but I was happy to get some Baclava. The wine here was GREAT as well, so double bonus! We all chatted and caught up with each other about who had the better flight and what movies we watched and things like that. We then decided that it was a good time to just go back and rest.