Barcelona: The beginning

Kim and Jim finally made it to Barcelona around one and what else do you do when its 90 some odd degrees? Go to the beach. On our way to Port Olympiad we found the Market which is just insane!! The beginning of the market has more fruit than I could consume in.. well, a month. And then as you head deeper into the market there is lots and lots of fish (which smelled terrible), CANDY.. And last, but not least, there is of course bars at the market. A very cool place to be. We are definitely going to make a stop here before the boat Sunday!

At Port Olympiad we met some of the people Jimmy went to school with, shared some pitchers or Margaritas. The beach sort of felt a bit like home (a fun beach with a big city behind it, minus the skyline.) The water is freezing just like Lake Michigan too! The difference, there is no $150 ticket for drinking on the beach. In fact, people are walking around trying to sell you cerveza and their soul (i.e. Henna tatoos, massages, water... anything you want 5 euro) These people are relentless and even after you say no gracias, they find you again as if they didn't just ask you 5 minutes ago.

(the masseuses trying to sell there stuff on Jim's friend...)


We took a later than normal siesta (and by we I mean everyone except me). And headed to dinner near La Rambla at 10:30pm and finished our tapas at 12:30a. Just in-time for the nightlife to start. We didn't have a plan so just really went to bars where they loured us into with free shots. We decided to call it quits by 3am so we were semi-rested for a big Saturday!! (The last bar gave us to go cups for our drinks... why doesn't Chicago adopt that idea??)


Observations:
-EVERYBODY warns you about pick-pocketers
-The sun is always up here
-Shopping this morning with Kim is going to be awesome!!
-We can't figure out which cities to tip in and which ones you don't. Jim says
you tip in Barcelona!
- There is NOT pizza & gelato on every corner here, damn!
-It is very hot here! (Thank God for air conditioning making its way to Europe)

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XO Kel
& Happy 4th if I am too tired to post anything tomorrow morning =)