Day 2

I suppose technically part of Day 2 was included in the last post, but here´s the rest.


1239pm - The hotel we´re staying in (Hotel Guillermo Tell - William Tell Hotel) seems nice, but we got there before check in time, so our luggage is currently being kept in a locked room in the basement.  After dropping off our luggage, we went to get Euros from an ATM. Just my luck, the machine rejected the transactions of the last thee people (me included).  No worries - it all worked out. Señora got us all metro passes, and I found a working ATM at our stop. However, getting the tickets was a whole other catastrophy.  Of course, we couldn´t figure out the machine, but finally, señora was helped by a nice elderly couple. They led her upstairs, and she came back down with passes for everyone.

Now, Ella, Rebecca, y yo are all exploring some place en Barcelona - La Rambla. We stopped to eat at some resturaunt/coffee shop called ¨MOKA¨. It isn´t as Spanish as it looked from the window. Their menu was in four different languages, but none of them were Spanish.
They definitely ripped  us off and were very rude.
The shop keepers were mostly pushy and rude. La Rambla definitely has not given me a very good first taste of Barcelona.

811pm - We left La Rambla at 200pm and headed ¨home¨ to check into our hotel rooms. The rooms were small but very, very nice - bigger and nicer than I expected, so that was a good surprise.  Then, we changed for the beach - THE MEDITERANEAN SEA BEACH! It was so wonderful.  It took us a while to find the beach, but what we did find were hundreds of sail boats! Ella got some nice pictures of them (and of me with them, por supuesto). Eventually, we found the becah. I have been to the ocean but never a ¨sea¨. I´m pretty sure that the Mediteranean Sea is my all time favorite body of water. I told Ella that I wanted to live in the middle of it. ¨Sleepy Brianne¨ has definitely made some appearances, but I am doing FANTASTIC considering I haven´t slept since 630am central time YESTERDAY (31 hours and counting).  Showering felt SO niceafterwards. Now, we´re about to ship out on the metro (again= in the direction of our dinner destination.

July 15th 1205am - We were a little late for our dinner reservation due to a couple unplanned naps, but luckily, it didn´t seem to matter. We were served a meal of multiple tapas (appetizer like foods) españolas.  There were some very strange looking/tasting ones, but some of them were very good! It was a great chance to practice eating Spanish food and using Spanish manners (especially after our not-so-great lunch experience).  We finished with desert, a delicious lemon sorbet. The meal started about about 930pm, which is apparently fairly ¨early¨ for Spanish natives.  I have gone 35 hours straight without even one minute of sleep. My bed is looking wonderful.