capitulo 3: in which lindsy has an amazing weekend

This weekend was one huge party for the whole of Barcelona. Dia de la Merce. So friday, saturday, sunday and monday pretty much no one worked and everyone played. Except for the poor people who own restaurants, clean streets, serve beer, etc. I shall try to sum up all the things we did. ¨We¨ generally being a group of 4 or 5 of us BCA people who have found good companionship with one another and are on the whole rather frugal/cheap and don´t spend half the money that some of our fellow study-abroad students do. We are quite proud of this. Other people say things like, oh, how cute. *shrug* that is beside the point.
Friday, go: History of Art test. then a cafe for cafe con leche. Home for dinner. Off to the beach where there was a fireworks show. pretty nice. Then walk along the beach find a cumbia band playing at an outdoor bar. Turns out I really like live cumbia. Band consisted of a mexican, a chilean, paraguayan, and maybe a guy from uruguay? I hope I spelled all those right... anyway, they were really fun and quite good. After they ended we walked around some more and then went home.
Saturday: Home in the morning/afternoon. Evening went to a plaza to try to find a break-dancing performance. Found a Rumba band instead. turns out I also really like rumba. and reaaally want to learn how to dance it. (surprise, surprise, eh?) Then we walked around some more and found the break-dancers. They were quite good. I want to learn to break dance. Then walked to another plaza where there were more free concerts (I heart free concerts). Watched a sweet band from Barcelona who´s name currently escapes me. THen The Undertones came on (this was the band we went to see). From Ireland. Anyone know them? THey were pretty fun. Meanwhile we got smashed into a lot by an extreeemely drunk woman and met some Italian guys. Then we went via metro to yet another plaza to try to catch The Thrills (also Irish) but the place was SOO packed and huge and there for 4 different stages and we were tired and our feet hurt. So we found a bar and sat down and talked instead. Got home late.
Sunday: Home for the morning. Left in the afternoon to meet friends at the Sagrada Familia and go from there to still more free concerts. Couldn´t find one friend. waited. waited. called. waited. went to eat supper at a yummy greek rest. called. went to concert. found her! and other friend! amazing. Watched the end of another Barça band. Pretty good, till they stared singing in English. And then....we pushed our way up to the front. about 20 feet from the stage. and saw... TRAVIS!!! One of my favorite bands, actually. in Barcelona! free! and we were so close! and they were amazing. then to a restaurant and split a yummy pesto pasta dish. Then home.
Monday: home for the morning. Afternoon met friends at Picasso museum (free for the day). waited in line and then walked through museum. Picasso is not my favorite artist, and he still isn´t, but I like his stuff better after seeing the whole progression of his work. neat. then to another plaza to eat our packed suppers and share some sangria while we waited for the fountain/fireworks show. It was well worth the wait. we had good seats and the show was spectacular. best show ive seen, i think. combo of fountain, fireworks, and music. (tho a strange selection-opera to rock to country and pop...) And it lasted a long time. I think it made up for me missing the last three fourth-of-july´s. Afterward waited for the crowd to leave and saw two guys throwing a disc around! went and played with them. German, but living in Barcelona. Told me that people play on wednesday nights on the beach. yippee!
Wednesday night on the beach: played frisbee! have lots of sand-scrapes. had so much fun. made friends. now on the ultimate listserve, I think. que happy!!!
well, im off to study grammar for a test tomorrow. This was a long blog. It was a long weekend. =)
amor to all!