Travels and Travails of Reb and Mick: hi

micky and i just woke up...it's 2 pm hahahah
Barcelonans work on such a different time schedule than we are used to!
This is literally just a city of partiers. As Joe says, "It's a city on a college kid's schedule"

So this is what happens...things don't usually open til around 10, people take a siesta from 3-6, and then restaurants don't open until 8 at the earliest for dinner! so usually people don't even eat til 10!

We didn't get with dinner until pretty late and we were catching up with our FSPpl. I love them!!

Yesterday, we all went to the Pablo Picasso museum. Micky and I found our favorite part of Barcelona, La Rambla! Katie, Nora, Joie, Henry, Joe, and Jon are all staying here, but we didn't know that. We went to the area to go to the museum, and as we were looking at a street map because we were kind of lost, Joe comes up behind us!

I don't know if I've ever been happier to see someone in my whole life! Now I know what people mean when they talk about the Dartmouth family because seeing Joe was like seeing my long lost bro!

Ok, so we went to this restaurant where all of the rest of our FSP family was eating and we all happily went to the museum. I learned a lot about Picasso and have decided that I like his Rose period the best.

[Interjection by Micky: I like his Blue period! So moody.]

We all really liked this painting: La Salchichona. This pic really doesn't do it justice, it was STUNNING in real life.

Because it was beautiful yesterday, we decided we wanted to go to LA PLAYA!! We got a little lost while walking there but I don't even mind because the it was a gorgeous walk. Everything was sand-colored, it was sunny but slightly breezy, and streets were cobbled. It reminded me of a better version of Arizona.

After walking through a business district that kind of reminded me of inception, we came upon the ocean!!!

now that i've actually found a pic of it...it looks less like inception than I thought lol

Joie and I went to the shoreline, and put parts of our bodies in the Mediterranean Sea.

That awesome looking building is the Barcelonan World Trade Center

So according to World Atlas, the 7 Seas of the Discovery Age as:
~~Atlantic~~
Arctic
Indian
~~and Pacific Oceans~~
~~Mediterranean Sea,~~
the Caribbean Sea,
and the Gulf of Mexico
(I'm using the seas of the discovery age even though that time period was from 1450-1650 because it's MY discovery age right now!!)

Only have 4 more Seas to go to touch them all!

After frolic a little by the shore, I started to get VERY hungry because all I ate that day was coffee and ice cream (my fave things, but not really um nutritional per se)...but it was only 6 pm so there weren't any real restaurants open yet

We grabbed a cab back to the Christopher Columbus monument...it's of Christopher Columbus pointing towards the new world....but he's not pointing the right way hahah

Jon and Henry were VERY hungry...and since im a boy, i was VERY hungry too...they got food bc they had cash but i had to wait to go to Mcdonald's because not many places in Barcelona take plastic...OMG SO SAD FOR MY LIFEEEE

we wandered for a little bit and we saw a bunch of street performers. Barcelona is a city of artists! There was a guys with like a magic glass ball that he was being a baller (HAHA) with. He was making his limbs all like fluid and it looked like he was a wizard (I mean, he might have been!) Then there were all of these people who were like pretending to be statues and Jack Sparrow and stuff. And there were jugglers...this one juggler kept on messing up and then laughing at himself. And then he heckled people for money...he was so ridiculous that people actually gave him money for being bad at juggling lololol

Jen, Henry, Katie, Micky, Joie, and I all went to eat at Lez quinze nits. I had paella for the first time..OMG IT WAS SO GOOD....im just going to eat paella over and over again for the rest of my life.