Tapas are Overrated

Greetings loved ones, (haha I sound like Snoop Dogg from 'California Girls')

Today was less sunny which we were a little sad about but still, can't complain about the Barca temps! 66 degrees and cloudy, we'll take it. Tomorrow is supposed to rain, NO ME GUSTA LLUVIA, and yes, I am the weatherwoman. (My macbook widget has been surprisingly on its game in Spain - it is NEVER right in Scotland for some reason)

Rebecca and I woke up pretty late again today....it's okay, we're just moving up our siesta to the AM and not having one later in the day. So first meal of the day was lunch, the largest meal for the Spanish, and we had seafood paella again (we can't get enough!) We went to Park Guell, which is this garden/architectural complex designed by Antonio Guadi. We had to trek up this hill which reminded me a little of Glasgow, since I always feel like I'm climbing up a mountain, but it was really funny because along the way we saw all these little children! With painted faces! Red circled cheeks - like pikachu - and some little boys had mustaches drawn on them - like this guy:

So when we finally got there, I was so amazed! It was like an artsy, romantic, exotic version of Candyland. Check it out.

Here's a close up for this lil cutie:

Does this NOT look like candyland/the gingerbread house???

Then, I desperately tried to look for the mango gelato I had yesterday which was SO GOOD (there were chunks of mango in it!) but we couldn't find the same shop....it was sad so instead, Rebecca and I got a kiwi-melon-banana smoothie, a pine nut cookie thing and chocolate-covered churros!

I finally had tapas!! They were a pretty big let-down to be honest, I was expecting more after loving paellas so much. We had some fried fish - like little baby fishies, they were super spiky in my mouth!! :(, green peppers, garlic shrimp, mushrooms that tasted a lot like the escargot we had in Paris, chips. I think I'd like tapas, but the tapas we had at this restaurant weren't superb. But it was a nice second romantic dinner date with Rebecca - the place was outside, right on the street and all romantically lit!

Here we are now, back at our room in the hotel. The receptionist ordered us a pizza, because at midnight, every Dartmouth girl gets hungryface! Half a pizza later, I should be sleeping...but again my Spanish scheduled body isn't tired...

All packed up though! Tomorrow we hit Venezia! Eggplant parmigiana, here I come!!!

[addendum: omg so we still got ni haos...but today someone got creative and said "konichiwa" damn barca, you're so international!]