On Thursday night a very famous DJ came to Barcelona named Afrojack. I had never really seen a famous DJ and I didn't expect too much but it turned out to be pretty fun and he was really talented and knew what he was doing. You wouldn't expect everyone to try and get close to the stage like in a normal concert but everyone was pushing to get up front. I was very happy to stay back a little and have my room. We stayed for a while and left around 5:30 in the morning and caught the metro when it opened up for the morning.
The next night I was planning on only going out for a few drinks and then going home. I met up with some friends in Gracia, which is where a lot of younger Spanish people go out for the night. I ended up getting 2 gin and tonics and then a beer and wanted to join them for going to the club. We went to a place called Shoko where we could get in for free. I ended up staying, again, until about 5 in the morning. It was a lot of fun. I actually had more fun on Friday night just because it wasn't s crowded.
Saturday during the day I slept in and relaxed. I planned on going to Jourdan's soccer game with some friends at 5. We only stayed for the first half and the score was 1-1. Their goal was actually pretty sweet and it was on a free kick. The kid curved it right into the corner. We were taping the game too and you can hear me in the background say something like Wow did that just happen. It was probably one of the nicest soccer goals I had ever seen, not professionally of course. I didn't do anything that night though because we planned on going to Tibidabo in the morning, which is a large church on top of a hill with a 360 view
This is the curch
The view was pretty amazing and once again it would have been amazing to have a good camera because the pictures would be much clearer.
After eating some lunch looking out over the city we took the tram down to the city. Right near the bottom of the tram was the Museum of Science. The special exhibit was Dinosaurs of the Gobi Desert. We went in to check it out and see if it was cheap but it just happened to be the first Sunday of the month and all museums are free that day.
The museum was pretty cool with a lot of hands on stuff. This is why I like science museums much more than art museums. They are kind of fun and you can play with some cool stuff, in an art museum you can only look. The museum had a ton of random stuff on the first floor, then a rain forest section, and the Gobi exhibit
Sunday night we planned on going to Sitges for Carnival. Everyone has said that Sitges is the place to go for Carnival and one of the top destinations in all of Europe for Carnival. It is about a 45 minute train ride to a small beach town with half of a million people partying on the streets in costumes. Here is a picture with some of our friends we hung out with there
Jourdan and I bought some cheap masks and used face paint to create our own designs and they turned out really well. Mine was the mask with the red lips and his is the orange and purple one. We also decided to paint our faces a little for when we were not wearing our masks and for an extension of our mask.
There was also a huge parade from 11 to around 2 with some very elaborate costumes and floats. Here is one of the better floats and costumes
Also every float was pretty much a moving bar for the dancers on the floats. It seemed like everyone had a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other
This was the superhero float with a bar.
After the Parade we went to a bar for a while and then chilled on the beach until about 7 when we wanted to go home. The scene was unreal after we left the beach. I had never seen so much trash, broken bottles, drunk people having sex on the beach, and other people still partying at the clubs...and this was almost 7 in the morning. The train back was long and I just wanted to be back in bed. Luckily we had seats (6 people in 3 seats) but there was a guy with a whistle who would not shut up for 45 minutes. Have you ever herd someone with a whistle in a closed space...it sucks, and especially if you are tired and slightly drunk. If I spoke fluent Spanish I would have yelled at him but I did not want to start a scene so I kept my mouth shut. The view, however, was very nice
After a very long night I went home and needed to shower because I had purple hair dye and face paint on and I eventually went to sleep at 9 in the morning. My friend Greg from school was also coming to Barcelona around 11 the next day and I woke up at 12:15 and gave him a nice tour of Barcelona.
I am going to put his visit in my next blog post though. It was a very fun weekend and I am very sleep deprived. Now I have a test in about an hour.
Hasta Luego..."until later" in Spanish...more like see you later though
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