Saturday, May 19, 2007

Well, I tried to get to valencia yesterday but all of the trains were full, so i got a ticket for today at 9. I didnt really know what i was going to do so i just sat in the train station almost the whole day doing absolutely nothing, waiting for them to kick me out or something. So i was sitting there eating my cheap crackers and a girl that looked distinctly american walks by where im sitting looking like a lost puppy. She wanders around the train station aimlessly for about a half hour before i get up and ask her if she speaks english, dont want to be presumptious after all. She does and she is american and is lost. Shes studying in alacante down the coast and is meeting up with some of her friends from U Missouri that are studying in Italy but got an apartment for the weekend in Barcelona. Since I have nothing to do and I know the city reasonably well to help her, I help her get to the apartment, through 2 metro transfers and a starbucks. Finally we find it, its real nice and im thinking hey maybe i can get a floor surf for the nite. I go in and there are 25 people in there, craziness. Theyre all very nice but I felt like a sweaty hippy that was dropped into a frat-sorority social. Well after a bit everyone heads out to party and the ¨3 amigos¨go buy like 20 bottles of wine (wine is really really cheap here) and everyone goes down the road with their bottles drinking merrily. We ended up down by the harbor where there are a string of clubs, it was cool, all of the music was really lame american music, but we partied anyways. So I ended up getting no sleep, the 3 amigos passed out way early and stumbled back to the apartment and everyone else tricked back around 6 or 7 am. when i got back i was laughing so hard with the 3 amigos, they are so fricken funny i swear. They were only slightly affiliated with the rest of the crew from missouri and it was easy to see. So went down to the train station, got on my bullet train, slept somewhat then wandered valencia for a bit before taking a well deserved siesta in the park that as far as I can tell was once a river...

1 comment:

Cindy said...

Hi Chris, sounds like you are having a great time!! I lived above a bar in Valencia, on the south side of the river.