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Barcelona Day 2: Mountain and Castle!

We slept in pretty late the next day, but that was ok because we had planned to meet the others at about 1pm to climb up the mountain to the castle!

Montjuïc Castle

We met at the plaza again and before heading off to the mountain, we looked for a Vodafone store… I was completely out of minutes and needed to be able to communicate with Pauli. We couldn’t find it and information told us to go into this one mall and we searched all like 4 levels and nothing! so we went to the bus stop to wait for the bus that took us up the mountain. I thought someone knew where we ere getting off at since they knew which bus it was, but they didn’t. We rode it all the way to the end and then it did this U-turn and started back down, so we jumped off. Then we found some signs that told us which way to walk. We finally made it up to the castle after making a quick stop at this little bar halfway up to use the restroom and get some water! Once at the top, we had a beautiful view of the city and the water. We had a nice long photo shoot! Then we headed back down and went through a park.

Fountains and Waterfalls

The park was nice with fountains and a little waterfall. We waited forever to take pictures in front of the waterfall because there was this group of old people that were taking pictures and then this one guy climbed up like practically in it! And then we stood there forever and was waving at the rest of his group. Some lady finally took a picture of him and then two other ladies decided to climb up there with him. It wouldn’t have been as bad if they were taking pictures in front of it like everyone else, because you can do different angles to crop them out; but they were literally like in it! You couldn’t take a picture of the waterfall without them being right in the middle of it! We were so annoyed. Finally the guy got down, but then those ladies stood up there forever! Even after they were done getting their picture taken, they just stood there! Can you tell how annoyed we were? Its annoying me just talking about it! lol Finally I got my picture, which took all of less than a minute! See its not that hard! 

Phyllis Wandering Off

Phyllis had walked away from us to go look at the water and we were standing there waiting trying to get her attention; we didn’t want to walk all the way over there and then the funniest line of the weekend came out of Karis’ mouth… “What the hell is she doing over there?!” *in the tone like it made no sense for her to be over there* I am cracking up just writing about it… you need to hear it in her Chinese accent! It is so funny… Nasha and I were laughing about it for the rest of the trip! Then we were walking along the sidewalk and came to this other park, the sign had some writing in brail and Nasha was pretending to try to read it. Then these people with a dog walked by and we started to leave. Nasha was like I can’t see! And Karis *very concerned like* was like What?! And then Phyllis was like… “Do you need to borrow that dog?” Lol… it was hilarious! We were laughing all the way back down the mountain! these Chinese girls can be so freakin’ funny! I love them! Nasha and I told them they should make a TV show! 

Another 3 Course Meal

When we got to the bottom of the mountain, we realized we were pretty close to Phyllis’ hostel, so she went back there to have some lunch and then she was going to meet us at this restaurant we found. We were eating one of those 3 course meals like we had the day before, but it wasn’t near as good. I had some Brazilian rice, which was good, but there was too much! Karis finally had Paella, but it was awful! The rice was totally mushy and I think she said the shrimp wasn’t good either! I felt bad because she had been wanting to try it for awhile! I had meatballs for my second course and they were really salty! Luckily I was already full from the rice, which by the way had a fried egg on it! We didn’t even get our dessert and the guy was just sitting around not working… we finally had to like yell at him just to get the check. We were disappointed luckily we only paid 8 Euros for this one. 

WiFi Break

Then Phyllis met us and we headed to her hostel. I wanted to use the WiFi to look up the addresses for Vodafone shops. I wrote them down and then we were discussing our plan. We wanted to go see the fountain, but then Pauli had messaged me asking if Nasha and I wanted to go to dinner with her and some friends. We had just ate, but I wanted to hangout with Pauli as much as I could while i was there, so we were going to go and just get something small. She didn’t want to go until 9 anyway. So we decided that Phyllis and Karis could just go to the fountain without us. Her hostel was leading a trip there, so they would be able to find it easily. Karis and Phyllis were arguing. Phyllis was like I will just go without them then. And Karis was like what about me?! (Are you imagining this in a Chinese accent, because it might not be as funny if you’re not… lol.. but I am cracking up). And Phyllis was like you can come too! And Karis was like oh ok. Then they were arguing about something else and Phyllis was like why are you always so mean to me?! And then like 2 seconds later Nasha and I were like ok, we are leaving and then Phyllis was like I want to go to the grocery store and Karis was like me too let’s go together! Its just hilarious how one minute they are at each other’s throats and the next minute they are best buds! They definitely kept our trip totally entertaining! 

So Nasha and I decided to go look for the Vodafone shop and then head back to the house. We went on freakin’ goose chase for these stupid shops! Each one we went to said that they couldn’t help me because it was an international number! We went to every single shop in the city and not one could do it; even though the night before the guy told me that the larger store could do it! 

Flaming Pre-Game

We got home and Pauli told us that her friends were going to a sushi bar and she wasn’t sure if we would like that and she didn’t really want it, so she decided to just not go. She told us about this concert on the port that we could all go to. So we had drinks at the house; Pauli the ex-bartender made us some cocktails. She also showed us the proper way to pour the liquor. Then she even put orange slices on the rims!

Then she showed us how to make this flaming orange vodka shot inside the other half of the orange! It took awhile to light on fire because I guess the alcohol has to be a really high percent and the cheap one we had wasn’t. Anyway it was cool looking when it finally worked!

Concert at the Port

After our drinks, we headed down to the port for the concert.

Lion Statues

After the concert, we headed back to the house and stopped at the statue to take some pictures! Nasha and I climbed up on the big lion! It reminded me of the time we did that in London, but this time the lion was smaller. It was still hard to get back off of though!

Then we headed home to pass out for the night, we were so tired!