Day 2

Got up and got croissants and walked towards the Sagrada Familia. Watched all the people carrying the palms for palm sunday. Walked to Sagrada Famila and Arnab complained how the park was all sand, walked west across town to sans estacion. Saw more pople carrying palms and played guessing games.We remembered when Andy got mad - though of the time when he got back from Christmas and he found that Alex had not flushed before vacation. Arnab remember the time that he sent Andy all that spam because andy had mentioned how nice it was not to get spam on that account. Arnab also brought up the time he stole Andy's friend's car. Then we guessed what Andy would be wearing when he showed up. We though he'd be wearing a Tshirt and jeans and his blue jacket. As expected he said "hey" when he showed up. Then we went to the hostel and back to the Passig de Gracia and went South.

Randomly met Sujan and Kate (before we planned to) so we got sandwiches (mine was a chocolate filled pastry - best sandwich ever) and walked around looking for an internet place. We accidentally got an extra sandwich so thor carried it around like a gun. walked past a market (mercat santa caterina) with a cool roof and talked about siesta. headed south down a shady alley with palm trees and hung out while Sujan and Kate checked their flight. Arnab was right about their flight time - his memory is quite good. We then walked to the Arc do Triumph and through the zoological park. Saw a fountain with cool dragons.

St Jordi is the patron saint of Catalonia and he is famous for having slayed a dragon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon and thus there dragons in alot of the artwork and statues around the city of Barcelona. On a similar note, previously Thor had told us about the origin of the Catalan flag. Yellow with red stripes because the king had a gold shield and as he died, he dipped his hand in his wounds and dragged his fingers across the shield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senyera. Catalonia has wanted to be a separate country partially because they are a wealthier region and they feel they support the other regions unfairly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_nationalism.

We continued past the woolly mammoth statue and went south to the harbor. I was giant dork and noticed the antennas on the ships when we tried to ride the funicular. It was closed for inclement weather, so we walked around the harbor past a carnival where we smelled waffles and pancakes. Sat for awhile and then went to old town to find food. wandered down a random alley where an american girl told us to eat at Sinatra. Place was pretty good, Tapas and American style Spanish dishes. great patatas bravas and wine from Catalonia (Syrah). Made bets about where the waitress was from and Sujan was closest- he said Canada and she was from Idaho.

Sujan told his greatest moment story. He had been in front of Deering tossing the frisbee around. Then he was practicing headstands and he had Arnab toss him the frisbee . He caught it between his legs and then was able to toss it back to Arnab and it was the greatest moment of his life.

Got back on La Rambla and played Ghost for a long time: viviporous (now confirmed to be oviviporous), vandium, quintessential, beneficiaries. We said goodbye (prematurely) and then walked Sujan and Kate to their hostel and then to the train station. Ended up at a dead end transfer and had to walk the long way home.

And finally to bed.