BYE BARCELONA

Our last day in Barcelona we went to the Parc Montjuic, which is an enormous Park that overlooks the city and housed all the Olympic stadiums from the ’92 games. We walked around the park for a while and then we walked through all the Olympic areas. I was bound and determined to find the Olympic pool, so I dragged my parents around until I had found it. The gold medalist, from the United States, that I remembered were Summer Sanders and Jenny Thompson. After we visited the pool we took a Telerifica across Barcelona down to the seaport. A Telerifica is a cable car. It was just like the ones they have Bush Gardens over the park, but this one was over Barcelona. We got to see a bird’s eye view of the entire city, which was quite spectacular. The Telerifica dropped us off down by the bay and we walked back up the Ramblas. We stopped at a street side café for a bit to eat. We all ordered huge mugs of Sangria. Mom ended up getting quite tipsy and started to sing My Fair Lady down the Ramblas. I thought she was going to a show with one of the street performers! I showed my parents this really cool open-air food market that I had visited on the excursion. We saw some pretty gross meats and a sheep head that you could. I don’t what you would do with a sheep head, but you can buy one. We made our way back to the hotel to get our luggage and head for the airport. Once we had arrived back in Madrid we got on the metro to the bus station. On the metro we just so happened to run into Susie. Susie had spent her long weekend in Belgium, with a friend who was studying there. We got to bus station just before eight, but the clerk at desk told us if we hurried we could make the eight o’clock bus to Salamanca. Susie managed to make it, but as we were coming down the escalator to the bus pick up we saw our bus pulling out. We ended up waiting for the 9 o’clock bus. Once we were back in the Manc we took a cab to their hotel and I went back to Madre’s house.