España - Sabados, Dia 2

Today´s crazy spanish keyboard symbol: ñ

So now that we´re in spain and have traveled all that time and got wasted, the logical next thing to do is sleep. Xtina and I manage to get up at the reasonable time of 1 or so. We get some tapas including sepia y tortilla, which was lovely. we then check out an internet cafe as we are supposed to meet the midget at 4 in the plaza catalunya. in typical midget fashion, he was a little off on his arrival time and came in at 10 instead. we decide to start a search party which includes us wandering around the plaza. probably through an act of pure luck we find him quickly and everyone cheers. we go back to the apt and wake up teo and thevaghan to start their day around 5.

We travel a few blocks and get these guys some comida at a Spanish-Japanese restaurant. TheVaughan clearly orders hamburgers and we are soon on our way. We go visit some Guadi buildings including La Predrera. We all have a discussion and conclude that Gaudi is alright in our books. He may have been crazy or did drugs or something, but he knew how to build weird and awesome buildings. Next is his famous Sagrada Familia that certainly deserves the capital letters. Again, cool guy builds cool stuff. We spot a random ping pong table near the cathedral and immediately think of playing beer pong on it at some point. Alas, that never happens but just imagine what we could have acheived.

The highlight of the day are some kids destroying a part of a computer gladiator style. They are in a large sandbox area and taking turns throwing this thing as hard as they can. Pure genious. TheVaughan gets some footage on his camera that, if we ever learn to use cameras and computers together, will be posted on his blog.

We´re pretty awesome from getting this all in and still have time for dinner and drinking. After a cena muy mal, we head to our new favorite place, Plaza Real. This time we hit up Temple Bar where Teo y TheVaughan spot a Hen party and move in. I will let him fill you in on their portion of the night. Xtina, Midget, and I leave the bar and head towards Jamboree. Xtina and I decide to have a brief drunken/serious talk and loose the Midget. Anger gets the best of me when she wants to flirt with sailors and rugby players instead of looking for him. I look for him with no success and visit Jamboree for a short time before heading home.

It must have been my Jedi mind powers as I sensed something bad happened to the Midget and it did. In his clear state of mind, he decides to walk down a dark alley with the spanish speaking girl who has approached him. Next thing he knows, shes a whore and her two pimps rob him of 100 euro. Not a good way to start the trip. We all then make friends with our neighbors as TheVaughan rings every door bell when he can´t get in. We are told we are being kicked out but it is all empty threats. We call it a night and get ready for whats in store for dia 3...