Day 4: Thor got up and went to work at 9 (after very few hours of sleep!). When he came back at noon, none of us had gotten up (ha!). Thor went to the store and got supplies for pancakes and i went for a run. i ended up at the harbor and saw some really cool yachts - very high end. Big antennas - one yacht had two antennas that had at least 1.3 meter light bulb radomes. Another yacht had it's own helicopter! Really cool graffiti along the river path. Very tasty Swedish pancakes when i got back. Thor had some trouble spraying the whipped cream in his mouth (how uncouth!). he dribbled it in his beard. The raspberry jam was the best - i had six pancakes.

After b-fast, we walked across town to the mediterranean overlook and then down to the amphitheatre. Pretty cool old Roman thing - later inhabitants (perhaps goths or visigoths?) built a church in the middle and then became a dump. Of course, being a dump, it was well preserved. Went to the Tarragona museum and saw some cool ruins that had been found in the area, including several mosaics. We talked about how we all would like to put mosaics in our houses when we grow up. Walked up a Roman tower that had several levels - one had a model of the city as it was in Roman times, also had sarcophagi. Then went down into the catacombs that were built underneath the circus floor to ensure that the floor was flat. We also saw the area where the performers would gather before they would go out to perform. The signs noted that the roman walls were well preserved because as people built houses in the city, they used the walls as one wall of the new houses that they built. while we were down there, arnab played a joke on Andy, saying that the last room in the catacombs was the coolest room. Andy went back in to see what was so cool but there wasn't anything there.

Went back to Thors. stopped at a shoe shop- yay! bought my cool euro shoes (http://www.wonders.com/). I had to hold up my fingers to tell the woman what size i thought i was. After shoes it was pretty late so we walked over to the rental car place. Thor got the Europcar - it was a cool boy car, a siat leon. not many cool boys in US drive hatchbacks but sounds common in spain. We headed to the aquaduct. As it was pretty dark, we had to use our nighthiking skills. I was pretty scared when we walked across the aquaduct as the walls were pretty low. Then we walked back across the gorge. Thor tried to run ahead and scare us but we could see him because of his bright hoodie. Back downtown for dinner - had trouble parking so we ended up over by the cool yachts and the crazy building. We at a a touristy place called something del mar (just like california). We ordered a big group dish with seafood and vermicelli. had fried cuttlefish in honor of alex.

Conversation tangent - thor apologizing to me about honking my horn at andy's wedding - andy telling the story of how angry his mom was when he honked her horn - arnab told story of how he lied to his parents about going on a band trip - andy kneeing some kid named joe sicerella in the butt for not letting andy borrow his ice ice baby tape -talked about how homosexuality being genetic or not and how experiences in our youth can move you in a cult-like fashion in one direction or the other. Then we drove to the end of the pier where they give the rollerblading lessons. thor took us home and the boys stayed up all night playing video games.