On Wednesday, we woke up at 9am, had breakfast at the hotel, got ready, and metroed to the market. There was lots of disgusting things to see at the market-goat's heads with the eyes still in them, animal tongues, pig's feet, and lots of fish-most of it still alive. Reminds me why I don't eat a lot of meat. We bought some fruit for lunch and it was very fresh and only 1 euro!
We metroed to Camp Nou-FC Barcelona's Soccer Stadium. The boys took a tour. We girls decided we had already seen one soccer stadium and that was enough for us, so we went to the souvenir store and then decided to metro to the Olympic Park Area, which the boys didn't seem to want to see anyways. In 1992, Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics, so we got to see the outsides of the buildings, the inside of the main stadium, and the pool area. I'm glad we went to see it!
We met the boys back at the hotel and then took naps for 2.5 hours :) We got food at the grocery store, showered, and went to watch the Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona soccer game. Those are the two main teams in Spain. We watched the game at an Irish Pub and I got a Magner's :) We met college students from Hamilton College in the Northeastern US I think. One of the guys got his Blackberry stolen from his pocket by a pickpocket while we were at that bar that night. Scary! Everyone always told us how bad Rome was supposed to be for pickpockets but we had no problems there and had 2 problems in Barcelona. Thankfully all they got was Taylor's gum. Anyways, Real Madrid won!!!!! 1-0 :) They are my team! We couldn't cheer too loud because we were in Barcelona, home of the losing team.
After the game, we went to another Irish pub where we had a very deep discussion about faith and the difference between Christianity and other religions. I am so thankful for my strong Catholic faith!!! We left there when it closed and headed to a discoteca. It was the coolest discoteca we have been to! Lots of creepy guys came up to us, so Cory and Taylor had to pretend to be our boyfriends but there were lots of cute guys there too. At 5:30am, it closed and we left. Thankfully, the metro happened to be open already, so we metroed back to the hotel. On our walk from the metro station to the hotel, Lizzy convinced Taylor he needed to climb a tree to get us back to the hotel...hilarious video! We went to bed around 6:30am.
On Thursday, we woke up at 10:20am! We almost missed breakfast!!! We ran downstairs and thankfully got food before they closed it. We got ready and checked out of our hotel. They let us leave our bags there so we did not have to carry them around all day. We went to the Sagrada Familia and waited in line for 30 minutes before going in. It was very cool. Very different than any other cathedral I have seen. Gaudi designed the inside to look like trees going up to the sky. It is definitely a work of modern art. It is expected to be completed in 2026.
We met up with Bev and her family and went to eat lunch around 5pm...a little late! They were very nice and it was fun to meet someone else's family. We went shopping in Las Ramblas again and Casey and I found artists who were selling jewelery so we got lots of souvenirs! We met back up with Lizzy, Cory, and Taylor, got our backpacks from the hotel, and walked to the bus station. On our way we stopped at the Tower of Agbar which was lit up at night and was really cool. We got on our bus to go to Madrid and left at 10:15pm.
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