Back to Madrid

Friday
-Checked out a small market near El Prado, finally a real market, no crazy amount of tourists
-Did mosnter 5 hour Prado excursion where we were tasked to view all "Masterpieces" of the prado. we did it. so tired
-Went back to find Rex had completed his presentation, everyone tired and crashed for 3 hours.

-Awesome tapas with Rex
-Partying with Rex's buddies, Tiziana and co at Ariea and Moby Dick Bar till 3 am
-bacon fried rice from Rex

Awesome Tapas example...at place I can't remember the name...TZ

Hanging out at a club called Moby Dick club

Saturday

-Woke up super late
- checked out a kind of touristy market
- yummy pincho tapas for breakfast/lunch
- short stint at the royal palace again
- awesome afternoon checking out Madrid's Ritiro park! People watching, lounging, password, and discussing ridiculous propositions and how much we would need to be paid to do it
- nap again
- Casa Granada for roof top/terrace tapas! Awesome night.

Sunday
-woke up super late again
-jeff and jackie visit el rastro
-cafe, tapas and the crazy technology playground
-shopping for groceries and random clothes
-bull fight!! (scary :/)
-cooking with Rex! Butter/garlic shrimp, black bean mussels, fish stew!
-chilling and reblogging :/

Barcelona Day 3 and 4

As you can tell, i have been really irresponsible and stopped blogging due to hardcore tired-ness. I think we hit our energy draining limit and blogging become a really low priority :p. anyway, in an effort to not forget what happened, i'm going to spew everything in bullet point style as to our last couple days...

Wednesday:
-Woke up early and headed to Montjuic and checked out (1) the Barcelona botanic gardens - we found it on accident and (2) the 1992 Olympic stadium
-tour of the Diagonal, a street with tons of shopping and nice stores; checked out the L'illa mall and trucked it back to Oriol's
-jeff took a nap. so tired.
-AWESOME experience with Oriol and friends watching Europe style PREGAME as the entire city got ready for the FC Barcelona vs Inter Milan;
-Headed to La Rambla to watch the game, ended up at a bar called Tarrentino to catch the game, they won the game, but did not make it to the final...
-watched oriol and blanca get home and be sad - just like when Texas loses games...
-crashed

Thursday
-woke up late and headed to casa mila, another Gaudi masterpiece. Did tour which was quite nice
-After casa mila, walked down to casa battalo which was also nice, but we decided to not do the tour due to cost and tired-of-museum disease
-walked la ramblas again and other shopping streets before calling it quits and having Oriol take us to the airport and go back to Madrid...

-Jeff