Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Barcelona Day 10?: I'm Losing Track

…so we woke up @ 8:30am…or so we thought. Remember the time change? Well, it bit us early in the morning as we really woke up @ 7:30am which hurt pretty badly. We stumbled around the apartment, looking for coffee and whatnot. While watching the news, we realized that…yep indeed…we really were an hour off. So then it dawned on us that we were zombies because of that extra hour we’d lost…somewhere in Madrid. So, the executive decision to skip the bike tour was made. We decided that we would rent our own bikes, and give ourselves the tour. BRILLIANT! After the internet café, food, and some picture taking (we have TONS at this point. They will be posted later on for your viewing), we headed off to find the bike shop. We found it, but the doors were closed…it looked like a ghost town. We headed out to do some walking tours of the city. There are some pretty cool features of the city. Since Columbus is a pretty big deal in the Spanish culture, we say several landmarks including a court yard where the queen congratulated ole Colon(Columbus) on a job well done at finding a couple of islands. Nice job there buddy. We headed over the to the juice/café bar. Apparently, it’s run by a whole buncha hippies. Which, as I’ve said in the past, I have absolutely no issues with the hippies. So anyways, it’s apparently a place to spoke all sorts of natural random herbs(legal) and what not. And is heavily frequented by random hippie sorts. But, they play Radiohead, so it’s a wash in my book. Food (the folks at the grocery know us on a first name basis), another dance-off, and a ice cream ended the day. Did I mention that the washer exploded and tried to flood the apartment? It’s not going to win. We promise. We’re still in search of a good futbol jersey for one of Kim’s co-workers. Sign of the day: “Sleeping in this establishment is encouraged.”

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