BarTHelona!

Made it to Barcelona! Or Barthelona as it's pronounced here. What an adventure! We had to wake up at 4:20 to get ready for the cab to pick us up and take us to a bus for 5:45. We then had to ride for an hour to the airport that Ryanair flies out of. FYI, I would just recommend paying the extra money and go to the regular airport. We realized last night that our bags could only weigh 44 pounds and not 50, like when we flew to France....so we had to do a lot of maneuvering and about half of both of our things got put in dad and Peter's bags. Thank goodness they pack light! We also had to throw away a lot of things- bye bye medicine bottles, towels, flip flops, magazines and books. The actual plane was fine, except the fact that I felt like I was in a huge infomercial. They were selling things non-stop. Our apartment isn't bad. It's in the Gothic Quarter, near Las Ramblas and La Boqueria- which is the most incredible food market in the world! Def a sensory overloaddddd. Fresh fruit, all types of fish, meat, vegetables are being sold in every direction. After we dropped our stuff off we went and ate lunch then walked las Ramblas. It's cool, but suuuuper crowded/touristy. I guess it's sort of like the 5th avenue of Barcelona, minus the nice stores. It's weird, but there seems to be a lot more tourists/non natives here than in Paris. Maybe it's just the areas we've been in, but I feel like I've seen way more people following the Pat Broderick trend of carrying their guide books around with them everywhere. I don't get it. Apparently the pick pockets are really bad here, so I don't know why you would want to look more out of place than you already do. ...fell asleep writing this post earlier. After waking up reeeedonkulously early, we were all super tired and fell asleep for about 3 hrs. Just now getting back from dinner- suuuuper tasty- I had duck in some kind of berry sauce and more sahhhhngreyah of course. Probably gonna go to sleep pretty soon. Peter and dad are going to Pamplona tomorrow to run with the bulls. Dad told me that since they don't have cell phones, if they aren't back by 10:30 on Saturday night, I should start to worry that they were gored. Let's all hope that doesn't happen. Ooookkkkk, going to bed now. Catch y'all on the flp sie.