The Beach Experience: Spanish Style

I would call today a success. Aside from waking up ridiculously late, which I don't exactly know why.

Did laundry for the first time. Clothes dry SO fast outside here! I took them off the line within an hour or so.

Eric and our new friend, Ji Eun, came home from their Spanish class around 4 ish. She's such a sweet girl! Our first mission, make some home-made sangria. Red wine, sprite, peaches, oranges, lime, mmmm. While we let the fruit juices soak in, we headed down for our FIRST trip to the beach! Stupid, considering we live 10 mins away and we've been living at our place for 5 days now!

Wow. Our first Spanish beach experience. It was OKAY i have to say. Probably due to the fact that we didn't get there until about 5pm, and the clouds had rolled in. We had about 2 minutes of actual sunshine every 10 minutes or so. Eric, Ji Eun and I discovered two ways to bring the sun out: either make it scared by yelling at it, or coax it out by singing to it. "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine" worked wonders.

Along with the random sunny moments, our Spanish beach experience was accompanied by Indian men mumbling "cervezaaaa...agua....fria" every few minutes as they walked through the crowds, and many...many...topless women. The boys will be in heaven. My first european beach experience.

Eventually, the random sunny moments became more and more infrequent, and our tummies started to rumble, so we decided it was time to head back for dinner. A tad too early by Spanish standards (7pm) but when hunger calls, it means business.

Stopped by the supermarket to get pasta and pasta sauce. Our new plan is to make a big pot of pasta and just have it ready in the fridge.

Our sangria was ready to go once we got back. And it was goooooood. Mmmmm. Eric made dinner. Steak & fries AND pasta with homemade pasta sauce. Goooood shit. But after all that food, we needed a walk. An adventure, more like. Decided to go see the Arc de Triumf, Barcelona-style. It was gorgeous, at Parc de Ciutadella, but it wasn't lit! Oh well, at least the park was. We discovered it was the "asian hangout". Omg, so many asian families sitting in the park, we felt like we needed to sit down and join them. After taking many random pictures, and having a spinning contest between me and Ji Eun which left us walking in zig zags, we headed home. Said bye to Ji Eun. For some reason, we were exhausted when we got off the metro. The walk from the station to our house seemed never-ending. Eric kept complaining and wanting to give up and just sit down or sleep on the street. We practically crawled up the stairs to our apartment. Why were we so tired! Maybe it was all that sangria...