Rain, rain go away! (May 10th)

It really stinks when you decide to stay someplace warm so you can lay on the beach all day and work on evening out your burn...and then it decides to RAIN ALL DAY! Damnit! I guess skin cancer will have to wait...

Ok, so I didn't have nice weather here in Barcelona, but at least I had a really nice hostel for the weekend. Only having to share the room with 3 other people was quite nice, so I was actually able to sleep in til a decent hour. The rain was really coming down when I got up, but I was determined to enjoy my day anyway.

After polishing off some stolen muffins from my previous hostel, I set out into the city, umbrella in hand.

There's something to be said for traveling around by foot. You really see so much more when you aren't viewing the world through the windsheild of a car or the window of a bus. I put quite a few miles on the ole soles today again, but it was well worth the drenching I endured.

Barcelona is a pretty interesting city. I've lingered here for quite awhile and it really does have some amazing sites. I saw Barcelonas Arch de Triumph along with a mushy trailed park that had a mammoth Elepheat in it...not an ACTUAL elephant, but a sculpture of one.

I took a break from puddle jumping and relaxed in a coffee shop for a few hours sipping capuccinos reading my book. I forgot home good of a read Angels and Demons really was. It was really hard to put down and head back out on the town.

I passed by the Picasso museum, which was FILLED with tourists, and decided to skip it. Heck, I already knew EVERYTHING there was about him because I researched his life and his works for ~1000 hours because I'm such a dedicated actor.

I also ran into another huge market selling fresh food and decided to try some of the fresh cherries they were selling. Not bad, but I don't think they were very fresh and I was kind of disappointed that they didn't live up to my hopes.

Umbrellas don't cover EVERYWHERE on your body, so I my pants were soaked well above my knees by the time I got back to the hostel. I had wandered for about 5 hours and was exhausted and hungry. I cooked round two of my ravioli and enjoyed some spanish Simpsons, which I still thought was funny even though I didn't understand a word of it. It definitely loses something when you can't here the actual voices of the characters, though, so I stole away and finished my book.

Capping the exciting night off with some free laundry, I decided to live it up even more and head to bed. It was nice not to have to battle snorers for a change though, so I was pretty happy with that.

All in all, a pretty good day.